Reports suggest that the website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is now up again after it was brought down by a hacker over the weekend.

The site was hacked on Sunday (January 20th), and website TorrentFreak reported that "someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site's entire database".

People posting on the social news site Reddit also suggested that the RIAA's website seems to use an Exponent Content Management System which had "a lot of vulnerabilities ... including SQL injection".

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has suggested that ripping a music CD and creating an MP3 is "unauthorized" and potentially illegal.

In the case Atlantic vs Howell, the RIAA is arguing that defendant's ripping of personal MP3 copies onto his computer is a copyright infringement.

In particular, the organization is claiming that saving digital files to a "shared folder" is tantamount to swapping the files illegally.