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When I was in college, everyone I knew downloaded music and movies off of the internet and shared them on the network. Even when new laws about these downloads came out, and the school started monitoring the network, students were still able to get hundreds of songs and movies onto their computers without paying a cent! Can We Really End Illegal Music Downloading? WindowsAtoZ.com answers that question. Find this and other articles at the Legit Forums!
It’s no secret that teens (and some adults) have been sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for illegally downloading or swapping music. You hear it all the time in the news, hundreds of teens (most 12-16) getting sued for this. Is that really the right way to go about solving the file-swapping issue? I don’t think so. The RIAA is using too much brute force to try to solve this problem instead of stepping back and looking at the factors that lead to this illegally activity.
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