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- 1Recording industry sued 30,000 people over file-sharing●30,000+ PEOPLE targeted by the recording industry over file-sharing. Children were sued over songs. Adults faced million
The music industry's mass lawsuits against more than 30,000 file-sharers are being recirculated online, with renewed criticism of how the campaign was conducted. Children were reportedly sued over songs, and adults faced million-dollar verdicts for downloads. Critics contrast that aggressive enforcement with tech companies now ingesting copyrighted culture at industrial scale for AI training, arguing copyright suddenly stops mattering for powerful firms.