The world's largest record companies sued a number of major Internet service and network providers on Friday, alleging their routing systems allow users to access a China-based Web site and unlawfully copy musical recordings.
The copyright-infringement suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks a court order requiring the defendants to block Internet communications that travel through their systems to and from the Listen4ever site. The suit says the plaintiffs have not been able to determine who owns the Web site.
Plaintiffs in the suit include such major labels as UMG Recordings, a unit of Vivendi Universal; Sony Music Entertainment, a unit of Sony; the RCA Records Label, a unit of Bertelsmann's BMG; and Warner Bros. Records, a unit of AOL Time Warner.
Defendants in the suit are AT&T Broadband, a unit of AT&T; Cable & Wireless, a unit of Cable & Wireless; Sprint; Advanced Network Services; and UUNet Technologies, a unit of WorldCom.
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The copyright-infringement suit, filed in Manhattan federal court, seeks a court order requiring the defendants to block Internet communications that travel through their systems to and from the Listen4ever site. The suit says the plaintiffs have not been able to determine who owns the Web site.
Plaintiffs in the suit include such major labels as UMG Recordings, a unit of Vivendi Universal; Sony Music Entertainment, a unit of Sony; the RCA Records Label, a unit of Bertelsmann's BMG; and Warner Bros. Records, a unit of AOL Time Warner.
Defendants in the suit are AT&T Broadband, a unit of AT&T; Cable & Wireless, a unit of Cable & Wireless; Sprint; Advanced Network Services; and UUNet Technologies, a unit of WorldCom.
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PNY is still here in the USA, but I simply think they lack the production capabilities or market savvy to deliver for NVIDIA even though they already have penetration into the larger retail channels. The smaller guys like Gainward, eVGA, MSI, Leadtek, and even possibly such companies as Prolink, ABIT, or Inno3D have a shot to help get cards to market for NVIDIA. It will be very interesting to see how this plays out, but it would seem that PNY would be best positioned to immediately take the NVIDIA North American Sales Crown.
One thing is for sure; this could not come at a worse time for NVIDIA. They are desperately trying to get their NV28 and NV30 chipsets to market before the Christmas buying season ends and they have just lost their biggest card builder that pumps their chipsets into the retail channels in North America. We have heard that NVIDIA has been doing everything it can to keep VisionTek afloat and that would make perfect sense.
ATi will start shipping its Radeon 9700 Pro card on Monday and we have some reports that they started shipping late last week. ATi already has tremendous shelf space with the major US retailers and this is going to do nothing but give them more room to work with. ATi was already poised to take a significant amount of market share from NVIDIA and this VisionTek development is certainly something that will weigh in on that even more.
Thanks to all the guys at VisionTek that have supported us over the last year and thanks to VisionTek for bringing a great product to market. Now that VisionTek is gone, to whom is NVIDIA going to turn.
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