RIAA sues 717 more file sharers
p2pnet.net News:- The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) says it’s filed 717 new John Doe lawsuits against people who share music online.
This time, the number of university students targeted is nearly three times the number sued in recent rounds, says the Big Music cartel’s RIAA, going on, “college and university students continue to be among the most frequent users of illegal peer-to-peer sites for obtaining music”.
Sixty-eight people at 23 universities and colleges are under the RIAA’s guns.
Teaching institutions include Bentley College, Bridgewater State College, Georgetown University, University of Massachusetts (Lowell), Harvard University Medical School, Old Dominion University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Illinois State University, The Ohio State University, Ohio University, University of Kentucky, College of Mount Saint Vincent, Pace University, SUNY at Morrisville, Texas A&M University, University of South Florida, University of Southern Mississippi, Indiana Institute of Technology, Indiana University, Wabash College, Michigan State University, Wayne State University, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).
The news comes on the heels of a similar announcement by the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) that it, too, has launched another round of lawsuits.
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similar announcement – MPAA launches more lawsuits, p2pnet, January 27, 2005
January 27th, 2005 at 11:29 pm
their campaign…
‘How to alienate your future customer base’
TT
January 28th, 2005 at 3:13 am
Just pisses me off.
January 28th, 2005 at 3:19 am
Not at all, now their consumer base is the world. So long as they can continue to enforce their copyright holdings all over the world through their various sister-groups (IFPI, CRIA, ARIA, etc), all they have to do is be able to subpoena IP addresses. Because most people won’t be able to fight them in open court, they simply settle for a few thousand dollars. Now, instead of the RIAA’s music label members (Warner, Sony, etc) having to actually put out music in stores for you to buy, they will just sit and wait until you download (or upload) something, and then charge you thousands of dollars for it. Its much easier.
January 28th, 2005 at 3:45 am
ME TOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
January 28th, 2005 at 7:20 am
Just wait for IPv6.
Then the number of ip adress available will jump from 4.29 billion to 3.4×10^38.
Just try to sue them all!
January 28th, 2005 at 1:48 pm
Since Music Cartel wants to sue everybody, then everybody should sue RIAA – in small claims court. I know people could never win in such a scenerio, but the Cartel will still have to come to court. When I receive a summons, I intent do do just that. I have no attachable assets in my name, and bankrupcy laws in my state favor the debtor.
I quit buying any music because of these lawsuits. I wish everyone else would do the same.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Since Music Cartel wants to sue everybody, then everybody should sue RIAA – in small claims court. I know people could never win in such a scenerio, but the Cartel will still have to come to court. When I receive a summons, I intent do do just that. I have no attachable assets in my name, and bankrupcy laws in my state favor the debtor.
I quit buying any music because of these lawsuits. I wish everyone else would do the same.
January 28th, 2005 at 2:58 pm
What can we do to start fighting this crap. It is going overboard with the RIAA sueing out of its pants. The student from Norway is a good example. They have no money to fight and the “cartel” is driving people nuts. Let me know what we can do in the fight against money grubbers.