More student song swappers sued: but RIAA has trouble making charges stick.The Recording Industry Association of America filed lawsuits against 754 computer users last month in its continued attempt to stop unauthorized music swapping See peer-to-peer network. online. Twenty of the named defendants are college students who allegedly used their university networks to swap files at University of Pennsylvania (body, education) University of Pennsylvania - The home of ENIAC and Machiavelli. http://upenn.edu/. Address: Philadelphia, PA, USA. , Columbia University (N.Y.), Old Dominion University “ODU” redirects here. For other uses, see ODU (disambiguation). The university was recently named one of the best colleges in the Southeast by The Princeton Review. and State University (both in Ga.). Although the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America, Washington, DC, www.riaa.com) A membership association of music recording companies. Its goal is to promote the record label industry and protect the rights of copyright owners. It was a major contributor to the SDMI digital distribution system. says it will continue to sue file-sharers and put IHEs on notice as potential defendants, many are beginning to wonder whether the industry group is more smoke than fire. In the year since it began its legal assault against file-sharers, the RIAA has yet to actually win a court case against any of the more than 7,700 individuals it has sued. A number of the cases have been dismissed, while some have been settled out of court for an average of $3,000 each. Most other cases are pending. |
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