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Thursday, October 2, 2003 at 11:00 AM EDT
Confessions of a Music Downloader’s Mother

The Recording Industry Association of America is changing its strategy for going after illegal music downloaders. Earlier this month, the RIAA sued more than 250 Internet users for music piracy.

Maryland resident Susan Reimer had no idea that her daughter was breaking the law by downloading music on the family computer until the recent wave of lawsuits. In this radio diary, she says file sharing has become just one more thing she has to worry about as the mother of a teenager daughter.

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