Feds Raid P2P Users, RIAA Pushes Lawsuits
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the crackdown sent a message to "those who steal over the Internet," with Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray adding the crackdown represented the first federal law enforcement action against "criminal copyright infringement using peer-to-peer networks."
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said the crackdown sent a message to "those who steal over the Internet," with Assistant Attorney General Christopher Wray adding the crackdown represented the first federal law enforcement action against "criminal copyright infringement using peer-to-peer networks."
U.S. officials announced a multistate, peer-to-peer (P2P) network user bust, calling it "the first federal enforcement action taken against criminal copyright piracy on peer-to-peer networks," and announcing the execution of search warrants at five homes and an ISP.
The effort of U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's office -- which this week brought the raids against suspects in New York, Texas and Wisconsin -- is called Operation Digital Gridlock and is part of an investigation into the illegal distribution of copyrighted movies, software, games and music over P2P networks, said officials who seized computers, software and other equipment in the searches.
