Responding to recent judicial and legislative efforts to sue and prosecute users of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, opponents of the Recording Industry Association of America are calling for protests. The RIAA recently moved forward on its threat to sue individual users of popular P2P networks by issuing subpoenas to Internet service providers, aiming to identify users who are sharing copyrighted music through applications such as Kazaa and Grokster.
ISP Subpoenas from RIAA Met with Protest
Posted by: Jay Lyman July 21, 2003 01:06 PMResponding to recent judicial and legislative efforts to sue and prosecute users of peer-to-peer file-sharing networks, opponents of the Recording Industry Association of America are calling for protests. The RIAA recently moved forward on its threat to sue individual users of popular P2P networks by issuing subpoenas to Internet service providers, aiming to identify users who are sharing copyrighted music through applications such as Kazaa and Grokster.