Village Voice Profiles Mega-Fileswapper

This week’s The Village Voice includes an account of an Internet music file-swapper, Nick Mamatas, who became one of the nearly 9,000 individuals that the Recording Industry Association of America has sued for copyright infringement. "For me, the experience of settling with the RIAA was almost painless — except for the thousands I agreed to pay. Dragging my ‘shared’ folder to the trash icon, promising not to download anymore, and acknowledging that illegal downloading is wrongful were easy enough," wrote Mamatas. "And downloading? Well, I’m done with it now, except for legal amazon.com freebies, but even my close friends haven’t been scared off."

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