RIAA To Sue Hundreds Of File Swappers

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.

Comments

Re:Good thing

[Uart]

You do have something to fear from the MPAA though. So do I.

they are fighting a mythical beast

[tankdilla]

When will they realize they are not going to ever win, and just find another way to make money. It's like that beast whose head gets cut off (Napster) and then more grow in its place (Kazaa, Morpheus, etc.), then when trying to kill those three didn't work, they go after the cells that make up that beast. They are never going to win.