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...Sept. 13, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) began a letter-writing campaign aimed at seven of the largest file-sharing companies, including MetaMachine, which set the stage for a large-scale litigation process. Yagan cited this correspondence and high legal costs as the major motivation for his move to privatization...
...RIAA investigates both individuals and companies in its fight against illegal file-sharing. The Daily Princetonian reported on Wednesday that a Princeton student is being sued for file-sharing. Eighteen Harvard students have faced similar legal action, and 10 of them have settled out of court...
...press release issued at the time said “the RIAA has significantly expanded the scope of its response to this egregious form of music theft popular on college campuses...
...Some observers thought that the RIAA would just make its statement with a few high-profile lawsuits against students and then back off,” he writes. “That has not been the case...
...RIAA and MPAA have succeeded in one sense: they’ve raised awareness among those who might be inclined to infringe that they stand a real risk of getting sued,” Palfrey writes. “The Internet is not an anonymous place...