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RECORDS. NC., aNew Yorkcorporation;CAPITOL RECORDS,INC.. a Delaware orporation;MA VERICK RECORDINGCOMPANY. a California oint venture;WARNER BROS.RECORDS NC., aDelawarecorporation;LONDON-SIRERECORDS NC.. a Delaware .'corporation;UMG RECORDINGS,INC.. a Delawarecorporation;SONYMUSIC ENTERTAINMENT INC.. aDelaware orporation;MOTOWNRECORD COMPANY. L.P . a Californialimited partnership;ARISTARECORDS. NC.. a Delawarecorporation;FONOVISA. INC.. aCalifornia corporation;BMG MUSIC. aNew York generalpartnership;ATLANTIC RECORDINGCORPORATION.a Delawarecorporation;ELEKTRAENTERTAINMENT GROUP NC.. aDelawarecorporation;PRIORITYRECORDSLLC. a California imitedliability company;andVIRGINRECORDSAMERICA. INC., aCalifornia corporation.Plaintiffs,v.

DOES 1 - 25.Defendants.DECLARATION OF JONATHAN WHITEHEAD IN SUPPORT OF PLAINTIFFS' EX

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I. JonathanWhitehead, avepersonal nowledgeof the facts statedbelow and. underpenaltyof perjury. herebydeclare:

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am Vice President ndCounsel or Online CopyrightProtection or theRecording ndustryAssociationof America, nc. ("RIAA "), where havebeenemployed or over 6 years. My office is locatedat 1330ConnecticutAvenue,N.W., Washington,DC 20036. I submit his declarationn supportof Plaintiffs' Ex Parte Motion for Leave o Take mmediateDiscovery2. This declarations based n my personal nowledge, nd f calledupon odo so, would be preparedo testify as o its truth and accuracy.The RIAA's Role n Protecting Its Member Recording Industry CompaniesFromCopyright Infringement3. The RlAA is a not-for-profit radeassociation hosemember ecordcompanies reate,manufacture, nd/ordistributeapproximately inety percentof all legitimate sound ecordings roducedand sold n the United States.The RIAA's member ecordcompanies omprise he most vibrant nationalmusic ndustry n the world. A critical part of theRIAA's mission s to assist ts member ompaniesn protecting heir intellectualproperty n theUnited Statesand n fighting againstonline andother orms of piracy. All of the Plaintiffs in this action are members f the RIAA.4. The RIAA investigateshe unauthorizedeproduction nddistributionof copyrightedsound ecordings nline. As Vice President ndCounsel or Online CopyrightProtection, am responsibleor formulatingand mplementing nline strategiesor the RIAA, including nvestigationsnto the online nfringementof copyrighted ound ecordings f allkinds.

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The Internet and Music Piracy5. The Internet s a vastcollectionof interconnectedomputers ndcomputer networks hat communicatewith eachother. It allows hundreds f millions of peoplearound he world to communicatereely andeasilyand o exchangedeasand nformation, ncluding academic esearch,iterary works, inancialdata,music,movies,graphics, ndan unendingand' ever-changing rrayof otherdata. Unfortunately, he Internetalsohasaffordedopportunities or the wide-scale iracy of copyrighted ound ecordings ndmusicalcompositions.Oncea sound recordinghasbeen ransformednto an unsecured igital format, t can be copied urther and distributedan unlimited numberof times over he Internet,without significantdegradationn soundquality.6. Much of the unlawful distributionof copyrighted ound ecordings verthe Internetoccursvia "peer-to-peer" "P2P") file copyingnetworksor so-calledonline media distribution systems.The mostnotoriousexampleof sucha system s Napster,which hasbeen enjoinedby a federalcourt. In addition, herearemanyotherP2Pnetworks, ncluding KaZaA, iMesh, Grokster,and Gnutella, hat continue o operate nd o facilitate widespread opyrightpiracy. The major recordingcompanies recurrentlyengagedn litigation againstKaZaA, Grokster,and Mesh. At any given moment,millions of people llegally useonline media distributionssystemso uploador downloadcopyrightedmaterial. 7. P2Pnetworks,at least n their mostpopular orm, refer o computer systems r processeshat enable nternetusers o: (1) make iles (including audio ecordings)storedon a computeravailable or copyingby otherusers; 2) search or files storedon other users' computers; nd (3) transferexactcopiesof files from onecomputer o another ia the Internet. P2Pnetworksenableuserswho otherwisewould haveno connectionwith, or 3~.

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