The RIAA is ramping up an ad campaign to urge users to help stamp out music downloading. Britney Spears and Stevie Wonder will be two of the prominent performers who will be speaking out against internet piracy.

Music piracy, which has already claimed the life of Kid Rock, has been widely blamed for sagging album sales. Greedy computer users have already cost the industry billions of dollars, by downloading the music for free, rather than paying $20 for a CD with only one good song.

Legislation is currently being drafted by RIAA friendly Rep. Howard L. Berman (D-CA), that will permit record companies to hack into private computers to see if their copyrights are being infringed. Record labels are currently afraid of a backlash of customer lawsuits, so the legislation will remove a person's right to sue them for any damage they might cause to computer systems and equipment.

However, for now their hopes are resting on people listening to Britney Spear's plea to stop stealing her music. In the TV ads, Spears asks, "Would you flip on the radio and listen to our music for free? It's the same thing, people going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music."

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