According to this article which I read in the Thur. Jan. 21st New York
Times, in the computer section, this site has been taken off the air. Well,
here's the article.
"The Long Arm of the Law Shuts Popular Source of Lyrics"
The International Lyrics Server (www.lyrics.ch), a popular Web site
containing the words to more than 100,000 songs, was closed last week after
music publishers accused the site's Swiss aperators of copyright violations
and police officers seized their computers.
Pascal de Vries, a network consultant in Basel who started the site
in 1997, said the police had responded to a criminal complaint filed by
lawyers for the licensing arm of the National Music Publishers Association
(www.nmpa.org) in New York, which says it "is dedicated to the protection
of music copyright across all media and across all national boundaries."
The Lyrics Server received an average of a million hits a day. Most
of the lyrics were contributed by the site's users.
Hmmmm, very interesting! Bill :-)
