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...Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit April 3 against four students at Michigan Technological University, Princeton University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for alledgedly providing illegal downloads of more than one million songs on file sharing websites...
...services like Kazaa, Morpheus and LimeWire) without the music industry's permission. And like millions of others, you could now be in trouble. Last week a federal judge ordered Verizon, a fast-growing telephone company and Internet service provider (ISP), to answer a Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) subpoena for the name of one of its customers, a heavy Kazaa user. Should you be worried...
...many users--for either the industry or your ISP to monitor them all. Subpoenas will aim for obvious targets on the most popular services--like that Kazaa user, who had put more than 600 pirated tunes online. Those who download in moderation should easily escape the RIAA's wrath...
...Napster, meanwhile, is looking about as dated as Henley. The site that with Mp3.com is likely to have changed the music business forever is now struggling to make it through the spring, engaged in a tit-for-tat legal battle with the RIAA as it gets around to complying with a technologically tricky (and market-share-killing) court order requiring it to remove all copyrighted material from its service...
...Online music seems inarguably destined to live on, and as music labels take advantage of the medium's low-overhead distribution model, the artist-label debate will no doubt pick up additional steam. In the meantime, the RIAA is just in time to tell the assembled senators that everything's fine, thank you very much, we've got it under control...