IP Topics
By
James E. Rosini,
Michelle Mancino Marsh and Yekaterina T. Korostash
- October, 2005
This article first appeared in World Copyright Law Report
The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) decision to go after companies that facilitate copyright infringement is bearing fruit. Faced with the impracticality of suing the millions of users who illegally download music and video files, the music industry has been sending out cease and desist letters to popular sites, such as BearShare, eDonkey and WinMX, which enable users to swap digital files. The letters urged these companies to change their business models to comply with copyright law or shut down.