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RIAA Escalates Battle

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently announced that it has filed a new round of lawsuits against 762 people it suspects of distributing its songs for free over Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like KaZaA and eDonkey. <br/>As of press time, the RIAA has sued roughly 5400 people over the past year in an effort to discourage the online song copying that it believes has cut into CD sales. And it's also pressing Congress to help.

3 minute read October 01, 2004 at 11:59 AM
By
Samuel Fineman
RIAA Escalates Battle

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) recently announced that it has filed a new round of lawsuits against 762 people it suspects of distributing its songs for free over Internet peer-to-peer (P2P) networks like KaZaA and eDonkey.

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