A Cape Girardeau man is one of the targets of lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America this week for copyright infringement.
Shernet Showers is one of more than 18,000 people who have been sued by the RIAA since 2003 on charges of downloading music without paying for it or sharing music files in violation of copyright laws. The lawsuit was one of four filed against Missouri residents this week.
RIAA spokeswoman Amanda Hunter said filing copyright lawsuits is a lengthy process. “We use something called the John Doe Litigation process,” she said.
Online investigators search for individuals who download or share copyrighted music on the Internet’s peer-to-peer sites such as LimeWire or Kazaa. After a suit is filed, RIAA members can subpoena the identity of the individual in question from their Internet service providers.
