{"id":1924,"date":"2005-11-09T06:42:02","date_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1924"},"modified":"2005-11-09T06:42:02","modified_gmt":"2005-11-09T06:42:02","slug":"riaa_vs_the_peo_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1924","title":{"rendered":"RIAA vs. The People: 2 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/news\/archives\/2005_11.php#004116\">EFF<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>It&#8217;s been two years since the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) started suing music fans who share songs online. Thousands of Americans have been hit by lawsuits, but both peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and the litigation continue unabated.<\/p>\n<p>In a report released Thursday, &#8220;RIAA v. The People: Two Years Later,&#8221; the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) argues that the lawsuits are singling out only a select few fans for retribution, and many of them can&#8217;t afford either to settle the case or defend themselves. EFF&#8217;s report cites the case of a single mother in Minnesota who faces $500,000 in penalties for her daughter&#8217;s alleged downloading, as well as the case of a disabled veteran who was targeted for downloading songs she already owned.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EFF: It&#8217;s been two years since the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) started suing music fans who share songs online. Thousands of Americans have been hit by lawsuits, but both peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing and the litigation continue unabated. In a report released Thursday, &#8220;RIAA v. The People: Two Years Later,&#8221; the Electronic Frontier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}