Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!GAFFA.MIT.EDU!Love-Hounds-request From: Love-Hounds-request@GAFFA.MIT.EDU Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa Subject: Re: Lyrics server Message-ID: <6927@adobe.UUCP> Date: 1 Oct 90 20:10:03 GMT References: <9010010439.AA12099@das.llnl.gov> Sender: Love-Hounds-request@gaffa.MIT.EDU Reply-To: Love-Hounds@gaffa.MIT.EDU Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated, Mountain View Lines: 13 Approved: love-hounds@eddie.mit.edu Really-From: adobe!!dkletter@decwrl.dec.com (It's all fun and games until someone PUTS AN EYE OUT) ha ha... i was waiting for someone to ask this. from what i've heard, some record company heard about the lyrics server, perused it and found a ton of stuff that no one was paying copyright royalties on (basically the whole thing was illegal) and notified the rest of the record companies affected who have effectively shut the thing down. it was fun while it lasted though... --d -- "Ein zwei drei vier... Steve oh yeah."