Music industry drops lawsuits

THE MUSIC industrial complex has dropped over 750 lawsuits against students at Drexel University, Harvard and the University of Southern California.

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) gave no reason for dropping the cases. It sued 7,000 this year.

Yesterday a market research firm NPD Group claimed illegal downloads have fallen 11 per cent since the Supreme Court ruled in June that Grokster and other P2P companies were operating illegal businesses.

The figures were immediately challenged by media measurement outfit BigChampagne which said that P2P activity is actually higher.

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