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      Downloaders face the music as record industry sues

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      "Copyright infringement is wrong, but abuse of innocent people is wrong too," said Lory Lybeck, a Mercer Island attorney who has several clients accused of copyright infringement. "There's a predominance of (these lawsuits) filed against people who simply can't participate in the federal legal system."

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      RIAA vs. college students, Gizmodo boycott

      Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing

      What does it say about society when students rallying against record companies while there is a war going on in Iraq? "The RIAA recently sent out 400 "pre-litigation settlement letters" to students accused of illegal downloading at 13 universities, and launched p2plawsuits.com, where the accused are invited to avoid lawsuits by turning themselves in and paying fines online."

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      RIAA working with Police Arrest HipHop Producer

      Posted by Jeff from New York Times

      Mixtapes are, by definition, unregulated: DJs don’t get permission from record companies, and record companies have traditionally ignored and sometimes bankrolled mixtapes, reasoning that they serve as valuable promotional tools. And rappers have grown increasingly canny at using mixtapes to promote themselves.

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    • Local family sued by record companies

      Posted by Billbar

      A Rockmart, Ga. family is being sued for illegal music file sharing, despite the fact that they don’t even own a computer. “I don’t understand this,” James Walls said. “How can they sue us when we don’t even have a computer?”

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    • RIAA Chan case dismissal

      Posted by Billbar from p2pnet.net

      Fronting for Vivendi Universal (France), EMI (Britain), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and the only American company, Warner Music, it [the RIAA] went after the Chan family, there, trying various ploys in fruitless bids to pillory schoolgirl Britanny Chan, now 14, and her mother, Candy, as file sharing thieves.

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    • Copyright Laws Severely Limit Availability of Music

      Posted by bugeats from NPR

      "Some music lovers continue to take matters into their own hands by sharing MP3 downloads of forgotten LPs and 45s across the Internet, and on Web sites devoted exclusively to old music." -- I am a music lover, and I've been taking this matter into my own hands for years. Sometimes it's easier to get an album from filesharing networks than it is from iTunes or any other service.

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