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Sunday Business, London, Business Notes Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2003

Sunday Business, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jul. 20--MUSIC FANS FIGHT LOSING BATTLE: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has felt the first benefits of its belligerent decision last month to subpoena internet service providers and force them to hand over the names of users suspected of trading music on websites illegally.

The RIAA has taken advantage of a provision in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to obtain the names of individuals; it now plans to file hundreds of lawsuits against them in September, charging them with violating copyright laws. The RIAA is also warning that it will go after anyone, including college students and corporations that allow employees to download music off their systems....

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