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RIAA Sues Another 744 File-Swappers for Copyright Infringement

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 25, 2004 - 1:57am.
Washington -- As the federal government conducted its first criminal copyright enforcement against file-swappers on Wednesday, The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that it has filed another round of lawsuits against individual users of peer-to-peer networks, this time charging 744 people with copyright infringement. Many suits were filed against "John Doe" defendants, who the record labels will seek to identify through their Internet service providers, while others were identified by name and sued after not accepting an out-of-court settlement. The RIAA has now sued a total of over 4,000 individuals for copyright infringement on file-sharing networks since last September. The new lawsuits come the week after a blow was dealt to the entertainment industry's legal campaign against file-sharing, when a federal appeals court ruled that providers of file-sharing software like Grokster and Morpheus are not liable for any copyright infringement committed by users of the applications.
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tags: RIAA | Copyright | Infringement | File-Swappers |



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