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New RIAA Lawsuits Target 754 Music File-Swappers

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 1, 2005 - 11:28am.
Washington - Continuing its ongoing legal campaign against Internet file-sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that it has filed a new round of copyright infringement lawsuits against 754 alleged song-swappers. The company has now sued over 12,000 individuals for copyright infringement. The "John Doe" lawsuits were filed against users of services including Grokster, Kazaa and LimeWire, and included defendants at 12 colleges. In addition, the RIAA said it filed 81 lawsuits against named defendants earlier this month, whose identities were uncovered through previous John Doe lawsuits. "These lawsuits have helped to contain illegal peer-to-peer use during a period of phenomenal broadband growth. They have helped to establish clear moral and legal rules of the road, weed out the bad actors and give lift to a robust legitimate marketplace," said RIAA president Cary Sherman. In September, the RIAA sent letters to seven peer-to-peer companies, asking them to shut down their services in light of the landmark Supreme Court ruling that found file-sharing software providers are liable for copyright infringement committed by users of the software.
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