File-Sharing Lawsuits at a Crossroads, After 5 Years of RIAA Litigation
Wired, September 4, 2008
By David Kravets
Targets for the RIAA's massive litigation campaign include the elderly, students, children and even the dead. Fines under the Copyright Act go up to $150,000 per purloined music track. But billions of copies of copyrighted songs are shared each year and some of the fundamental legal questions about file-sharing have gone unanswered.
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