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"The Recording Industry Association of America, having just come out victorious in a $105 million settlement money with file-sharing service LimeWire, has set its sights on a new target: cloud-computing service Box.Net.\nUPDATE: We've just heard back from Box.net. Apparently, the entire issue boils down to a fairly standard Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notice and doesn't spell impending doom and/or larger lawsuits.\nA company rep wrote to Mashable in an email, \"The RIAA is not threatening Box.net with legal action. This is a standard DMCA takedown request that was filed in response to an isolated incident involving a single alleged copyright violation. We are working with the RIAA in accordance with DMCA policy and expect this issue to be resolved swiftly.\n\"As you know, Box is focused on powering business collaboration and sharing, and we discourage any activity on the service that infringes on anyone's copyrights.\"\n\nHowever, The Hollywood Reporter says that the RIAA has filed legal action against Box.Net. Its subpoena request would allow the group to investigate whether a couple of the service's customers are using it to steal and share sound recordings.\nBox.Net was founded in 2005 by 20-something Aaron Levie, and boasted Mark Cuban \u2014 the owner of the Dallas Mavericks \u2014 as an angel investor. \n\"The big idea behind Box is that sharing data in the enterprise is very, very difficult today,\" Levie said in an interview with Fast Company. \"If you can think of all the people you work and collaborate with on a regular basis, and all the data you create, the software didn't make that very easy.\" Read: It's a legit company, not some nefarious tool for piracy. In January, Fast Company reported that the product was used in 10,000 companies. \nBox.Net, for its part, is complying with the proceedings. \"We take the confidentiality of our customers' information very seriously, but just like all other businesses, we are legally required to comply with court orders,\" said the company said in a statement. \"Our compliance will be limited to the information the court requires we produce. At Box, we're primarily focused on powering collaboration and information sharing within businesses, and it's rare that we run into copyright infringement issues in those instances.\" \nWe'll be keeping a close eye on the proceedings in the coming months, but in the meantime: What do you think of this latest move on the part of the RIAA? Reactionary, or warranted?  \nImage courtesy of iStockphoto, shulz"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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