RIAA Ceases Lawsuits And Cut Down On Internet Instead
by Bradley Wint on December 21st, 2008 at 2:22 pm EDT - 207 views
The RIAA has taken a totally new approach to the fight against music piracy. Instead of taking the pirates to court and spending lots of time and money on the stand, they have decided to work with several Internet Service Providers to crack down on these music thieves. The ISP will monitor network traffic and if a customer has been deemed to be uploading illegal music, they would be warned on a three strike basis. During these strikes, the customer’s Internet supply would either be capped or totally shut off completely.
These efforts are aimed mainly as Peer to Peer file sharers, and is one of the smartest and simplest moves by both the RIAA and the ISPs. Eventually there would be few ways to get around it, because there are only a certain number of Internet companies a person could sign up for (or leech off as the case may be). At the end of the day, music has become very cheap, so why not spend a bit of cash to support your favourite artist.
Source: LA Times
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Taylor Flatt - posted on December 21st, 2008 at 3:22 PM MST - Link
This took only 4 years to do. To be honest, I have no idea why they didn’t do it in the first place. It might have been more effective had they done it sooner and not so obvious. I understand what they are trying to do, but their problem is still having to find these uploaders. Besides, it seems like a scare tactic to me and most uploaders will see right through it.
