On Jan. 21, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the filing of a new round of lawsuits against 532 peer-to-peer (P2P) users in its ongoing campaign to deter illegal online trading of copyrighted music.
RIAA Resumes Legal Offensive
On Jan. 21, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced the filing of a new round of lawsuits against 532 peer-to-peer (P2P) users in its ongoing campaign to deter illegal online trading of copyrighted music. While this is not the first round of such lawsuits directed at P2P users offering large numbers of unauthorized music files for others to download, this round is novel because the cases were filed against 532 "John Does" ' unidentified persons whom the RIAA can identify at this point only by their IP addresses. The balance of this article will briefly discuss the potential hurdles that the RIAA will face under this new strategy, and what it likely means for the long term success or failure of the industry's effort to deter unauthorized online downloading and recapture lost customers.
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