AN INTERNET start-up here has taken national broadcaster MediaCorp to court for making purportedly groundless threats of legal action.

Hearing for RecordTV's pre-emptive lawsuit began in the High Court yesterday.

The case has its seeds in 2007. That July, the start-up launched its website which allowed registered users to ask for MediaCorp's free-to-air programmes to be recorded for viewing.

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