532 people were sued today by the RIAA with 89 of them being college students and the rest commercial internet users. But, rather than sue by name, the RIAA has to now sue by IP numbers in the hopes that courts will reveal names of file sharers.
The RIAA says that the people sued were sharing "substantial amounts" of files. The RIAA is targeting users at universities in 10 states and Washington, D.C. Universities may challenge these subpoenas as some have done in the past, successfully.
Since the RIAA started the lawsuits last year, 1,977 have been sued and only about 400 have agreed to monetary out of court settlements. An estimated 5 million people use file swapping networks online at any given moment according to BigChampagne.
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