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Wednesday, 30 March 2005 |
Fayetteville: Suit seeks to identify file sharers
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, AR
The record companies that filed a federal lawsuit last week against two
unidentified Arkansas residents hope to learn the defendants’ names by
subpoenaing an Internet service provider, the suit states.
In a civil suit filed in the U.S. District Court in Fayetteville by Little Rock
attorney Kelly S. Terry, Motown Record Co. and eight others sued two individuals
as part of the industry’s battle against people who share music through the
Internet.
The suit said that although the plaintiffs do not know the identity of the file
sharers, they know that an Internet provider used by the defendants is located
in the Western District of Arkansas.
More than 9,000 similar copyright infringement suits have been filed in federal
courts across the United States, said Jenni Engebretsen, a spokesman with the
Recording Industry Association of America — a trade group for the nation’s
largest recording labels.
The industry has lost an estimated 21 percent of its shipping volume since
Napster, Kazaa and other companies became popular in the late 1990s, Engebretsen
said. "Our goal is to educate music fans that this is stealing, it’s illegal,
and there are consequences for those actions," Engebretsen said. "These lawsuits
have helped arrest the tremendous growth of illicit peer-to-peer use, and we
will continue to aggressively pursue them."
The recording companies are seeking statutory damages for each infringement of
each recording and an injunction stopping the defendants from continuing to
distribute or reproduce audio files.
Included in the suit was a list of more than 1,000 songs, album cover art and
pictures of artists Ray Charles, Britney Spears, Montell Jordan and others
attributed to one of the defendants. The files were listed under the Kazaa
company file sharing user name of RoyceBin.
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