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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 recording industry pursued lawsuits against more than 30,000 people over file-sharing, including children sued over downloaded songs and adults hit with million-dollar verdicts. Critics are contrasting that hardline enforcement with the way tech companies now ingest copyrighted culture at massive scale to train AI, arguing copyright law is applied selectively depending on who the infringer is.
Why now: Debates over AI training and copyright have renewed attention on the recording industry's aggressive file-sharing lawsuits.
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