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For the second time in a month, the Recording Industry Association of America's Web site was attacked Wednesday, apparently by opponents of the industry group's efforts to shut down online music trading.
By midday Wednesday, the trade group's site was unreachable. Earlier in the day, it had been modified to contain pro-file trading messages, and even direct links to downloadable music and to file-swapping service Kazaa.
"RIAA willing to try alternative approach to music-sharing services," the defaced site's top headline temporarily read, according to one screen shot provided by a visitor to the site. Other links included "Piracy can be beneficial to the music industry" and "Where can I find information on giant monkeys?"
An RIAA representative said only that there was a problem with the site and that it would be back up shortly.
The music group, along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has won many critics online in its quest to shut down popular file-trading networks such as Napster. The group says Net piracy has badly cut into legitimate sales, and this week released a report that said CD sales for the first six months of 2002 were down 7 percent from 2001. Online music trading was largely responsible for undermining those sales, the group contended.
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