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RIAA Body Count – August 22

A current list of casualties and friendlies in the RIAA war against P2P developers follows.

RIAA Body Count In active litigation Limewire 8-06 Morpheus 10-01, latest Received cease & desist letter eDonkey 9-05 Agreed to transition to authorized business Kazaa 7-06 Converted to authorized business BearShare 8-06 iMesh 10-05 Ceased operations Grokster 11-05 WinMX 9-05 Authorized businesses with major label content MyPeer announced Qtrax announced BitTorrent announced iMesh 10-05 Maxhboxx announced

This list includes only parties that publicly develop decentralized P2P software for major networks. It does not include freeware/open source resuscitations or distributions, web sites, servers, international software or services, or older software (Napster 1.0, Scour, Aimster, Audiogalaxy, etc.).

The P2P Insider's Blog will run occasional updates. Feel free to comment with additions. Go to RIAABodyCount.com to be forwarded to the latest Body Count.

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