12Peer-to-Peer Network Dangers

Your teen seems to have a never-ending playlist of music on his iPod or MP3 player. You assume he is just trading songs with his friends. You don’t listen to that kind of music anyway, so you assume they are swapping CDs just like you and your friends used to swap albums. There’s no harm in that, right? Wrong.

The Record Industry Association of America (www.riaa.com) is the trade group that represents the recording industry. The RIAA has, in recent years, emerged as the “piracy police” for any recorded audio.

Know that while ...

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