Wednesday, 27. November 2002
Topic: - on November 27, 2002 at 1:28:17 AM CET
RIAA orders US Navy to surrender
By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco
In a timely reminder of who's really in charge here, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has mounted a daring raid on the US Navy.
Acting unilaterally at the behest of the RIAA, Navy officials confiscated 100 computers on suspicion of harboring illegally downloaded MP3s, The Capital, an Annapolis, MD daily reports. A Naval official quoted confirms the raid, adding that punishment ranges from "court martial to loss of leave and other restrictions".
¬> Academy seizes computers from nearly 100 mids
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