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Another 717 feel the RIAAÕs wrath

The Recording Industry of America (RIAA) has filed another round of lawsuits against people using peer-to-peer software to trade music for free which brings the total lawsuits since September of 2003 to a whooping 8,400.

Users from 23 university networks were included in this round of lawsuits, which is over three times more then the last round of lawsuits from the RIAA in mid-December.

Then universities targeted include Georgetown University, Harvard University Medical School, Old Dominion University, Ohio State University, the University of Kentucky, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.

The RIAA said it was stepping up its enforcement on college campuses as. The RIAA has noted that instead of stealing music there are now 230 vendors that sell music and about one million songs available on ÒlegitimateÓ pay-per-download sites.

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Macworld UK - RIAA takes 717 file sharers to court