The International Lyrics Server was a Swiss web site devoted to hosting user-supplied song lyrics. Begun in February of 1997, it was hosting over 100,000 songs and receiving a million page views every day by its close in 1999. On January 14, 1999, Swiss police raided the apartment and the ISP of the International Lyrics Server's creator Pascal de Vries and seized equipment in pursuit of a criminal copyright violation complaint filed on behalf of eight music publishing companies including Polygram, EMI, and Estefan Enterprises. Now the previous domain name for the site, http://lyrics.ch, redirects to a different online lyrics database.
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External links
- lyrics.ch - the Swiss domain name which previously hosted the International Lyrics Server
