RIAA To Sue Hundreds Of File Swappers

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 25, 2003 @06:33AM from the you-and-you-and-you-and-you dept.

Shackleford writes "The Washington Post has an article saying that the RIAA is preparing hundreds of lawsuits against Internet users who illegally trade copyrighted music files. The lawsuits will target people who share 'substantial' amounts of copyrighted music, but anyone who shares illegal files is at risk, RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a conference call today. The first round of lawsuits will be prepared during the next eight to 10 weeks. They will ask for injunctions and monetary damages against file swappers. It seems that after a federal judge ruled in April that file-sharing services have legal uses and thus should not be shut down, the RIAA has found that it must go after individual users rather than the services that they use." palmech13 points to a similar article on Yahoo News.

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Re:Sharing porn by Waab · 2003-06-25 06:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Oddly enough, I just recently rid myself of all the remaining warez which I didn't have. Don't need it (not that I had it) anymore now that I've switched the last Windows box over to Linux and all the software I could ever want is free. Yeah, I kept a small Windows partition around for games, but all of those I actually paid for. Go figure.