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Article: Recording Industry Withdraws File-Sharing Suit against Newbury, Mass., Woman.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- September 24, 2003
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By Chris Gaither, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Sep. 24--The recording industry has withdrawn a lawsuit against a Newbury woman because it falsely accused her of illegally sharing music -- possibly the first case of mistaken identity in the battle against Internet file-traders.
Privacy advocates said the suit against Sarah Seabury Ward, a sculptor who said she has never downloaded or digitally shared a song, revealed flaws in the Recording Industry Association of America's legal strategy. Ward was caught up in a flood of 261 lawsuits filed two weeks ago that targeted people who, through software programs like Kazaa, make ...