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Discuss “RIAA plans to carry out suits”

The RIAA is at it again, and this time it?s private. Last week, the Recording Industry Association of America announced its intention to sue 405 file-sharers on the private academic network Internet2. Twenty-five Carnegie Mellon students are included on the hit list. The University has not yet received any subpoenas demanding the identities of those implicated, but this has not stopped a group of targeted students from organizing in the face of impending legal action and possibly presenting a unified legal front against the RIAA.

In a telephone press conference on Tuesday, RIAA president Cary Sherman said that Internet2 was being ?hijacked for illegal purposes,? noting that over 70,000 albums were available for instant download on i2hub, a...

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