Friday, September 5, 2008

5 Years of RIAA Copyright Lawsuits

The RIAA are the "music police" who have made online file sharing (of copyrighted music) into a national issue that impacts every high school and college. Here's a one-page summary of the questionable status of the RIAA's crusade at ... http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/proving-file-sh.html. This is an important issue because it addresses intellectual property rights and individual privacy rights against a backdrop of centuries of copyright law that NEVER targeted personal uses of copyrighted material. This will be a hot topic for years to come!

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