RIAA warns 300 companies on piracy

["Hamaker, Chuck" <cahamake@email.uncc.edu>]

On Cnet.com Monday, March 17
RIAA warns 300 companies on  piracy 
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-992992.html
     By Reuters 
     March 17, 2003, 9:50 PM PT

The music industry's leading trade group has sent letters to 300 U.S.
companies complaining about alleged acts of piracy and copyright
infringement in their corporate computer networks and warning of possible
fines.

The letter from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a
copy of which was obtained by Reuters on Monday, is the latest in the
association's campaign to stem the tide of piracy and online file-sharing,
which it blames in part for an industry slump that saw CD sales fall by 9
percent in 2002.

The RIAA has recently begun to track down individual users it says are
among the worst offenders, and last month it distributed a guide to
Fortune 1000 companies containing ways to prevent copyright abuse on their
networks.

...Those who received the letter were also sent a CD with logs of music
files on the companies' networks that were being offered on the various
file-swapping services.

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