Petteri Pyyny
17 Oct 2003 17:02
RIAA is preparing to launch its second wave of lawsuits very soon and has now sent out official warnings to 204 alleged P2P users, stating that they should either agree to settle their cases or get sued in near future.
RIAA launched its first wave of lawsuits in September, sueing 261 P2P users at that time. Now, RIAA has had some time to learn from its previous mistakes (that include sueing 12-year-olds, etc) and has propably raised the threshold a bit as well, focusing more on large-scale file sharers.
"In light of the comments we have heard, we want to go the extra mile and offer illegal file sharers an additional chance to work this out short of legal action," RIAA's president Cary Sharman said.
Letter that RIAA has sent to alleged P2P, simply reminds the recipients that "ignorance of the law is not a defense" and that destroying the MP3s from their HDDs would be considered as destroying the evidence, which is illegal as well. They also state that recipients should reply within 10 days or RIAA will proceed with legal actions.
Source: News.com