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That letter directed Tenenbaum to call a hotline run by the Recording Industry Association of America, asking the teenager to pay for his seven illegal downloads. Tenenbaum refused to pay. After his refusal, the RIAA brought a suit...
...legal strategy. The wildly popular and ill-fated music-sharing giant Napster became the war's first casualty. But it didn't stop there. "Then they targeted ordinary citizens, charging them with downloading music or enabling others to do the same ... as of June 2006, the RIAA had sued 17,587 people, including a twelve-year-old girl and a dead grandmother...
...October, The Crimson editorialized against the latest round of “pre-litigation letters” the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent to college students. Warning the recipients that they may be liable for $9,250 per illegally downloaded song, the RIAA pointed recipients to a site where they can buy peace with a credit card number and a promise not to do it again. The price point is chosen with skill: large enough to hurt, but small enough that litigating would cost more. An industry spokesman responded in The Crimson that thievery is thievery. Bills were...
...legislation in question would force public and private universities to actively police their networks for illegal sharing of music and movies, and would take action against colleges that do not sufficiently reduce such downloading. With such legislation, the states—and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which some fear will lobby for similar laws in other states—are seeking to outsource the work of enforcing copyright laws to colleges. Ensuring that networks are free of music sharing requires a massive investment in monitoring information and analyzing data flows to make sure that no copyrighted material...
JONATHAN LAMY, spokesman for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), on a federal case the industry is bringing against a man who kept a collection of 2,000 songs on his personal computer. The RIAA is arguing that it was illegal for him to transfer music from legally purchased CDs onto his computer...