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Josh Keller
University Wire
06-06-2005
(Daily Californian) (U-WIRE) BERKELEY, Calif. -- The recording industry sued six unidentified University of California-Berkeley students last week for allegedly sharing copyrighted music through the file-sharing program I2Hub, leaving each vulnerable to thousands of dollars in fines.

The lawsuit, filed by Recording Industry Association of America, is the latest in the more than 11,000 lawsuits major record labels have brought against college students and others since 2003. In April, the industry filed a separate lawsuit claiming that an additional 25 UC Berkeley students and 408 students nationwide illegally used I2Hub.

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