Some Austin, Texas, music lovers got a temporary reprieve as an Austin court dropped a lawsuit against 250 people accused of file-sharing.
The Recording Industry Association of America filed four lawsuits over the last four months, accusing hundreds of people of illegally downloading music from file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and Grokster.
The RIAA sued groups of John and Jane Does identified by numerical IP addresses. The recording association asked U.S. District Court Judges Sam Sparks and Lee Yeakel for permission to obtain the names of the people they wished to sue from Internet service providers.
Sparks and Yeakel found this process improper and ordered the dismissal of all lawsuits except for the first defendant on the list in each of the four cases. This decision is unrelated to a lawsuit against former University of Texas student Jason Gonzales, who was sued last year by the RIAA and agreed to settle.
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