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ur notes from the music biz
By KATE TAYLOR
Globe and Mail Update
POSTED AT 9:20 AM EDT Saturday, Sep. 13, 2003
Whatever sympathy I had left for the record companies recent attempts to protect their copyrights flew out the window last week as an American music-industry association claimed its first legal victory against Internet file sharers: Sylvia Torres, the mother of 12-year-old Brianna Laharra, agreed to pay the Record Industry Association of America (RIIA) $2,000 (U. ... I love music and dont want to hurt the artists I love," the girl said in a statement released by RIIA, using those heavily scripted tones with which people confess to car bombings in Riyadh or thought crimes against Maoism.
Brianna had downloaded more than 1,000 pop tunes and television theme songs and was making them available to other music fans through file-sharing software. ... In suing 261 American users whose Internet records reveal they are sharing hundreds of songs, the music industry may yet win the legal battle, but this week they lost the public-relations war.
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