p2p news / p2pnet:- The Big Four music cartel’s RIAA clone in South Korea is suing almost 1,985 people it says have shared music online without its permission.

“In a statement, the Recording Industry Association of Korea, a lobby of hundreds of music labels, said it has decided to seek legal action against individual Internet song swappers to “strongly cope with the unlawful trading of copyrighted songs on the Web’,” says a Yahoo post.

“We will vow to root out such illegal practices by continuing to take legal action (against individual users),” the association said in the statement.

In the US, the RIAA has now sued close to 14,000 people.

But in what could be the start of a consumer uprising against the cartel’s sue ‘em all marketing scheme, New York mother Patricia Santangelo has decided to stand firm against the cartel, and Seattle’s Dawnell Leadbetter is denying claims that she infringed record label copyrights.

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See:-
Yahoo - S.Korean Music Industry Sues 1,985 Internet File-Sharing Users, September 12, 2005
14,000 people - RIAA ‘fines’ students $3,750, September 9, 2005
stand firm - RIAA victim talks to p2pnet, September 4, 2005
denying claims - Another RIAA victim fights back, September 10, 2005

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