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Recording industry sued 30,000 people over file-sharing
Original: 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.
Why now: Debates over AI training and copyright have revived anger at the recording industry's past file-sharing lawsuits and perceived double standards.
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