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!!! Music Industry Drops Effort to Sue Song Swappers

Friday, December 19, 2008 3:30 PM

LOS ANGELES -- The group representing the U.S. music industry says it will abandon its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright.

The Recording Industry Association of America says that now it will try to stop alleged music pirates by working with Internet service providers to cut access to frequent abusers.

The move ends a controversial program that saw the industry sue more than 30,000 people since 2003 for swapping songs online.

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