Score one for Aimster. An Albany, N.Y., judge has ruled that the Internet song-swap service has a legitimate reason to file a copyright infringement suit against the major record companies. U.S. District Court Judge Lawrence Kahn refused pleas from the Recording Industry Association of America to throw out the case. Kahn said he made the decision to “enable a party who is challenged, or endangered in its enjoyment of what he claims to be his rights, to initiate the proceedings against his tormentor and remove the cloud by an authoritative determination of plaintiff’s legal right,” according to The Associated Press.
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