Legal Opinion
Recording Industry Ass'n of America v. University of North Carolina
District Court, M.D. North Carolina
Decided April 14, 2005No. 1:03MC138, 1:03MC139PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
ELIASON, United States Magistrate Judge.
Background
These cases, which are consolidated only for the purposes of this Order, involve attempts by the Recording Industry Association of America (the RIAA) to identify two internet users which it believes infringed the copyrights of its members. The RIAA states that it has information indicating that unknown persons using the screen names “hulk” and “Cadillac-Man@Blubster.com” offered to download to other users a number of computer files containing songs. The RIAA claims that its members own the copyrights for these songs and that the downloads…
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