on october 12, 2007, the riaa sued usenet.com seeking a permanent injunction to prevent the company from "aiding, encouraging, enabling, inducing, causing, materially contributing to, or otherwise facilitating" copyright infringement. this suit, the first that the riaa has filed against a usenet provider, has added another branch to the riaa's rapidly expanding fight to curb the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials. unlike many of the riaa's previous lawsuits, this suit is filed against the provider of a service who has no direct means of removing infringing content. the riaa's argument relies heavily on the fact the usenet.com, the only defendant that has been named currently, promoted their service with slogans and phrases that strongly suggested that the service could be used to obtain free music.