On Yahoo! News we can read that the RIAA has send letters to 300 American companies. In the letter the RIAA complains about alleged acts of piracy and copyright infringement in their corporate computer networks:
The letter from the Recording Industry Association of America, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Monday, is the latest in the association's campaign to stem the tide of piracy and online file-sharing, which it blames in part for an industry slump that saw CD sales fall by 9 percent in 2002. |
The RIAA has recently begun to track down individual users it says are among the worst offenders, and last month it distributed a guide to Fortune 1000 companies with ways to prevent copyright abuse on their networks.
The letter tells the recipients of specific instances where people using Internet connections coming from the companies' networks accessed file-sharing services like Kazaa and iMesh where pirated songs and movies are readily available.
"In short, your computer network and resources are being used to illegally distribute copyrighted music on the Internet," the letter said. "We strongly urge you to take immediate steps to prevent the continued infringement of our members' sound recordings on your corporate network."
Besides the letter the RIAA has also send the companies a CD with logs of music files on their networks that were being offered on the various file-swapping platforms.
Source: Yahoo! News
