Via p2pnet.net
In South Korea, 60 domestic music labels are preparing a collective lawsuit against 4,000 people: not for file-sharing through p2p networks, but for offering music files for download on Naver, a popular blog service:

“We demanded Naver force its personal blog service users to delete music files they illegally uploaded on their blogs,” a representative from the labels told reporters.

“But Naver passively reacted to our demands, and we decided to file a lawsuit against 4,000 Internet users for violating copyright law.”

This is the first action after a recent copyright reform, which apparently outlawed both the illegal uploading and downloading of copyrighted material.

Rik Lambers - CoCo
[Lambers is a former researcher at the Institute for Information Law, Amsterdam, who’s now in transition to a new full time job in the field of IP/Internet law. He’s also an associate member of the European INDICARE project, which researches consumer issues related to DRM.]