Recording industry owners of copyrights in musical performances brought contributory and vicarious infringement action, a Type of Secondary liability, against Internet website operator called Aimster (renamed and currently called Madster), a company such as Napster which facilitated the swapping of digital copies of songs over the internet.
In 2000, for a short time, Capitol Records authorized Madster (which was called Aimster at the time) to provide some Radiohead video files on the service's Web site and to release a skin for the Madster software that had a Radiohead theme.