The RIAA has done it again! They have dealt out another set of lawsuits, most of them at US students. What scares me is how much they are asking for - $ 750 per violation. So in theory, for a user that has shared 2,500 MP3 files, they could sue for over $ 3,000,000 (£ 915,000)! Although the RIAA do say that they often claim a lot less... I wonder!
|  The Recording Industry Association of America filed copyright
infringement lawsuits Wednesday against 405 students at 18 different
colleges across the country, including against at least 25 USC students
from USC.
The USC
students have yet to be notified of the pending lawsuits, said Kelly
Bendell from the Office of General Counsel. "We haven't
contacted them yet. Their IP addresses have been identified by the RIAA,
but we are still in the process of matching the IP address to the user
name. They will be contacted as soon as possible," Bendell
said. USC has
received subpoenas forcing the university to release the names behind each
address. |
The full story can be read here. Also this story and others can be discussed in the Music Downloads, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) & Legal Issues Forum.
Source: Daily Trojan
