The cyber-music war.When your product is being regularly stoten, there comes a time when you have to take appropriate action. --Cary Sherman, Recording Industry Association of America, on lawsuits against music rite swappers. [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. .com, Sept. 8) File sharing Copying files from one computer to another. See peer-to-peer network, file sharing protocol and file and printer sharing. is a reality, and it would seem that the labels would do well to learn how to incorporate it into their business models somehow. --Moby, D J/musician, in a posting on his Web site about the lawsuits. [Moby.com, Sept. 101 I love music, and I don't want to hurt the artists I rove. --Brianna LaHara, 12, of New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , among the first to be sued by the record industry for sharing copyrighted music on the Web, after her mother settled the case for $2,000. [The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times, Sept. 14] |
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