NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Music industry groups turned up the volume in their fight against song-swapping over the Internet on Thursday, warning Americans in a full-page newspaper advertisement that they could face legal action.

The advertisement is part of an aggressive initiative announced Wednesday by the Recording Industry Association of America, which said it plans to sue hundreds of individuals who illegally distribute copyrighted songs over the Internet.

The legal plans marked a sharp escalation in the battle against Internet piracy that until now had concentrated on shutting down the "peer-to-peer" services used for swapping.

Some experts said the group's latest tactic will only alienate the general public.

"Next time you or your kids 'share' music on the Internet, you may also want to download a list of attorneys," a bold print headline said in the advertisement in the New York Times, signed by 13 different music trade groups and associations.

'No different than shoplifting'
The RIAA was a signatory to the Times ad, which argued that music can be bought online legally without harm to musicians.

"Stealing music over the Internet is no different than shoplifting CDs out of a record store," the ad said. "It's also a very public activity -- meaning that offenders can easily be identified."

More than 2.6 billion songs, movies and other files are copied over computer networks every month, according to industry estimates. Executives believe such trading has led to a 14 percent slide in revenues since pioneering service Napster opened in 1999.

The RIAA, whose roster includes leading media companies, has shut down Napster and several similar networks but failed to stem the tide of Internet sharing. It hopes the lawsuits and advertising might deter people in their own homes.
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i have a guess theyre gonna shut kazaa and 'peer-to-peer' networks

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i would not worry too much. i did a report on this, and Kazaa is really hard to be sued because it is not part of the United States. it is like an Austrillian Company or something like that.

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i would not worry too much. i did a report on this, and Kazaa is really hard to be sued because it is not part of the United States. it is like an Austrillian Company or something like that.

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well just after dling the songs put them in a different folder or if you have two harddrives put it in the other one


if they search out of kazaa

its invading your personal space or whatever

its under some amendment

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kazaa isnt gonna be sued, they are going through kazaa, searching through songs, checking if you have the song, and if you have a large collection of other mp3s, they will sue YOU. kazaa is safe.. but you're not, cause piracy laws still apply

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wth?

no it's not, if you have copyrighted music and it's on your computer, it doesn't make it right lol. they can fine upwards of 700 per song. the whole point of the new plan is that you CAN be sued this time around. its a breach of copyright. unlike napster, kazaa cant be held responsible, because it is a legitimate p2p networking program with purposes other than sharing music, therefore, they have to go after the users, who are misusing kazaa by distributing pirated music. it has nothing to do with the company. the company has no control over the content passed over the p2p platform it established

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WOW

majority of the people who replied in this thread have no idea what they are talking about.

KaZaa which was just like the old Napster, is being sued. However, the RiAA is suing users of the kazza service also. These users include people who share 40GB+ of music, and also those who have it in their folders. You can get past this by just putting your folder with all your music/other files on another hard drive, or make a seperate partition and lock it.

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