The Recording Industry Association of America picked up the pace of its legal attack on Net music swappers Tuesday, filing copyright infringement suits against another 531 individuals.
As with the last round of suits, filed in early January, the latest wave comes without names attached. Under a legal ruling handed down last year , the RIAA must file suits in court before it can approach Internet service providers (ISPs) for information linking alleged file-swapping evidence to the subscriber names on a given ISP account.
That hasn’t stopped the group’s legal machine from churning out evidence of copyright infringement, however. With the total number of people sued now approaching 1,500 , the trade association says its legal action continues to be necessary to protect the growth of services like Apple Computer’s iTunes and other authorized music outlets.
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