Media companies and software vendors spend millions every year trying to stop people from trading their wares over the Internet, and the Recording Industry Association of America has even gone so far as to sue individual users of file-sharing networks.

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"Right now, music piracy is very popular on the Internet, " says Frank Creighton, the Recording Industry Association of America's senior VP and director of antipiracy.

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Implementation of the original law was scuttled after the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (the lobbying arm of the wireless industry) sued the city.

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