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Article: Recording Industry Targets College Campuses in Online Piracy Crackdown.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- August 18, 2003
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By Lesli A. Maxwell, The Sacramento Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 18--As they descend upon college campuses in coming weeks, millions of music-loving students could find themselves confronting an unprecedented legal assault by the recording industry against online piracy.
The Recording Industry Association of America has pledged to file lawsuits as soon as September against people it alleges illegally share copyrighted songs on the Internet.
College campuses -- where peer-to-peer file-sharing and downloading of copyrighted music, movies, video games and software off the Internet are a part of dormitory life -- have ...