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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedVideo has eye on P2P pandemonium: daily discord in music business as lawsuits fly.(the Recording Industry Association of America files lawsuits against 261 individuals)
Video Business, September, 2003 by Sweeting, Paul
WASHINGTON -- As the video industry watched warily for portents of its own future, the music business turned into a mud-wrestling match last week. On Sept. 8, the Recording Industry Association America filed lawsuits against 261 individuals suspected of trading thousands of copyrighted music files over the Internet through peer-to-peer networks such as Kazaa and Grokster.
The next day, lawmakers on Capitol Hill were holding hearings on the lawsuits, while RIAA and Verizon Communications officials traded angry charges about the record companies' aggressive legal tactics. By Sept. 10, online activists filed a class-action lawsuit of their own against the RIAA, charging it with fraudulent business practices for promoting a purported amnesty offer...
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