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The Australian Record Industry Association has continued to complain about online piracy, despite reporting unit sales increases of 12.8 percent in 2001.
The recording industry this week claimed progress in a controversial legal campaign targeting individuals who use peer-to-peer networks, but its optimism appeared to clash with at least some of the evidence, which remains murky.
Peer-to-peer technology company Altnet - which last month sent cease and desist letters to nine companies it suspected of infringing its patents - has agreed one of the companies was innocent.
On May 16, 2002, top executives from the Recording Industry Association of America gathered to celebrate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, a controversial law that Congress enacted in hopes of curbing online piracy.
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