By Tony Smith

The Register - Published Friday 29th October 2004 13:37 GMT

The Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) this week filed almost
1000 lawsuits this week, all of them accusing individuals of sharing
unauthorised copies of songs on P2P networks

Some 750 people are unnamed, with 213 more citing alleged copyright
infringers' names. The latter had all received demands to cease their
activities and make some remuneration for their acts, but in each case
the deadline for settlement had passed, the RIAA said.


To date, the RIAA has issued over 6200 lawsuits against named and
unnamed individuals, most recently 762 complaints filed late September.
The first lawsuits were sent out in September 2003.

Earlier this week, it emerged that the RIAA had settled its copyright
infringement action against the operators of Spain-based MP3 seller
Puretunes.com for a total of $10.5m.