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Monday, May 24, 2004

RIAA initiates more lawsuits against music swappers
Jeannie Shawl at 2:48 PM ET

The Recording Industry Association of America has filed suit against 493 more people for copyright infringement in its effort to discourage people from copying songs through peer-to-peer networks on the internet. Although the RIAA doesn't yet know the identities of the plaintiffs (thanks to a court ruling in RIAA v. Verizon that internet service providers don't have to provide their customers' names to recording industry investigators), it plans to discover their identities through court-issued subpoenas. Reuters has more.



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