Project Playlist search engine in RIAA's legal crosshairs
(Ars Technica)

One of The Pirate Bay's key claims to legality is that it's only a search engine and doesn't host any infringing files.

Project Playlist, based in California, makes the same claim, but that hasn't prevented nine RIAA member labels from filing a federal lawsuit against the service.

"Theft is not innovation," says the complaint, a copy of which was seen by Ars Technica, "and the Internet does not grant a license to steal." And because Project Playlist does appear to exert control over the music it finds, it may have trouble mounting the "we just point to files" defense.