James Delahunty
25 Aug 2004 14:51
Today, the trade group representing the U.S. music industry filed lawsuits against 744 P2P users. They claim these users used P2P networks like Kazaa, Grokster, Limewire and eDonkey to share copyrighted music illegally. This brings the total number of users sued to 4749. It appears the RIAA must be still in shock and very frustrated at recent court rulings that backed up the legality of P2P networks. The RIAA are blaming P2P file sharers for a massive decline in music sales over past years.
The true identities of the users being sued are unknown to the group so they are known as "John Doe" defendants. There were also suits against people who were identified but did not agree to an out-of-court settlement with the RIAA.
Source:
Reuters