Newsweek has three articles about the RIAA lawsuits:
Courthouse Rock
Last week the recording industry sued 261 unlucky music lovers, who, like millions more, had used Internet file-sharing services to download tunes. Will the radical strategy work? And is it fair?
Picking on little kids and old ladies? What were the record companies thinking? They say it’s life or death.
Non-Americans Aren’t a Target, Yet
Why is the global music industry going after Americans only? Of the 261 people sued last week by the music giants of the United States (AOL Time Warner), Germany (Bertelsmann), France (Vivendi), Britain (EMI) and Japan (Sony) for pirating music, none lives outside the United States. Turns out the rage for swapping songs through file-sharing services like Kazaa and Grokster is a largely American phenomenon.
