A Fletcher woman is one of 42 people in seven states sued last week by the Recording Industry Association of America for alleged copyright infringement.
A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Asheville accuses Tiffany Redmond of 134 Upper Brush Creek Road of illegally distributing copyrighted music on the Internet using peer-to-peer services such as LimeWire.
The association, which represents the nation’s major record companies, has sued more than 18,000 people since 2003 in an effort to deter illegal sharing and downloading of music and to increase public awareness of the issue.
A survey by the association found that before the lawsuits, 37 percent of those polled believed it was illegal to make music available for free from a computer, a figure that has since risen to 73 percent, spokeswoman Jenni Engebretsen said.
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