James Delahunty
16 Dec 2005 11:45
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has dropped 750 lawsuits against students from Drexel University, Harvard and the University of Southern California. The trade group representing some of the world's largest record companies including Warner, EMI, Sony BMG and Universal gave no reason for this action. The group has managed to sue 7,000 people so far this year for copyright infringement. It accuses those it sues of illegally sharing copyrighted music owned by its members.
The NPD group has made a claim that illegal file sharing has dropped as much as 11% since the U.S. Supreme Court "Grokster" ruling. However, BigChampagne has contested this figure saying that from its own research it concludes that P2P use has just increased ever since. Whatever way it is the music industry is determined to keep up the legal pressure on users, though even two years later, experts and general consumers alike frown on these tactics and believe the recording industry is doing a terrible job dealing with the problem.
Source:
The Inquirer