Biggest RIAA Campus Crackdown Ever: 569 Students Get 'Settlement' Letters
Date : 2008 04 15 Category : Web News
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Breaks previous record, targeting largest number of suspected file-sharers ever since launching its campus music theft initiatives back in 2007.
Leave it up to the RIAA to break its own record for most ever number of poor college students targeted for a lawsuit. For late last week it sent out 569 “pre-litigation settlement letters” to college students on 26 campuses across the country whom it suspects of illegal file-sharing. Since it began targeting college students back on February 28, 2007 the previous record had been 503, thus making this latest round, the thirteenth for those keeping track, the biggest ever.
As per its usual method of circumventing the legal process, targeted students have the option of paying the RIAA several thousand dollars to avoid going to court and potentially facing much higher fines and legal fees.