Jul 1 2003

Legal Group Spites RIAA, Defends P2P

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Fending off an agressive crusade by the recording industry to sue individual file-swappers, a San Francisco-based legal group Monday launched its “Let the Music Play” campaign.

The movement by Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) counters the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) announcement that it will file thousands of lawsuits against individuals who use peer-to-peer (P2P) software like KaZaA, Grokster, and Morpheus.

The online non-profit, civil liberties organization is instead urging the more than 60 million U.S. citizens who use file-sharing software to demand changes in copyright law to get artists paid and make file-sharing legal.


Read more: Siliconvalley.com

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