CNN.com – 261 music file swappers sued

CNN reports this morning that261 music file swappers are sued but also that an amnesty program has been unveiled. The federal lawsuits and amnesty program are the latest moves by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in its fight against illegal music file trading on the Internet. According to them filesharing is responsible for a 31 percent drop in compact disc sales since mid-2000. So what do you do? First they tried to put the companies out of business that were making programs to share (like Napster). They did succeed in that; most filesharing sites were using a central […]