http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,470039,00.html

 

 

 

After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy.

 

 

 

The decision represents an abrupt shift of strategy for the industry, which has opened legal proceedings against about 35,000 people since 2003.

 

 

 

Critics say the legal offensive ultimately did little to stem the tide of illegally downloaded music. And it created a public-relations disaster for the industry, whose lawsuits targeted, among others, several single mothers, a dead person and a 13-year-old girl.

 

 

 

Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet service providers.

 

 

 

The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an e-mail to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.

 

 

 

Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop.

 

 

 

If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more e-mails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider.

 

 

 

Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.

 

 

 

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What do you guys think about this? I've found it all over of the web so I'm feeling it's legit. Is it safe to file share now?

That's interesting. I assume that anyone who is majorly into filesharing will develop ways around it though, as I'm sure it will eventually be possible. One thing that concerns me though is what if people are falsely accused, there could be lots of problems with this system.

All the RIAA is going after is Americans who fileshare, and is suspected of music sharing. Never said anything about sharing movies or games, and they can't touch us Canadians either.

 

 

 

This is a very flawed system, and it won't be able to do anything. Tell me, are ISPs going to cut off 20% of their customers, and lose all that profit, since as many as 1 in 5 people fileshare? I'm simply assuming that's a probable amount, I cannot find a source.

 

 

 

The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an e-mail to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.

 

 

 

They're only going after the uploaders apparently, not the downloaders. That is mitigated by the fact that pirates will upload music outside of the US, so frankly, they've lost. They're against the wall, and they're officially losing this fight.

All the RIAA is going after is Americans who fileshare, and is suspected of music sharing. Never said anything about sharing movies or games, and they can't touch us Canadians either.

 

 

 

This is a very flawed system, and it won't be able to do anything. Tell me, are ISPs going to cut off 20% of their customers, and lose all that profit, since as many as 1 in 5 people fileshare? I'm simply assuming that's a probable amount, I cannot find a source.

 

 

 

The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an e-mail to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.

 

 

 

They're only going after the uploaders apparently, not the downloaders. That is mitigated by the fact that pirates will upload music outside of the US, so frankly, they've lost. They're against the wall, and they're officially losing this fight.

 

 

 

Agreed, seems as if it could be extremely flawed. Also, are all ISPs agreeing to this? Seems to me that if one or a few ISPs refuses to comply they may see an increase in customers :P

 

 

 

Ahh, I just saw that it says all "major" ISPs. I suppose my above comment still could be true

All the RIAA is going after is Americans who fileshare, and is suspected of music sharing. Never said anything about sharing movies or games, and they can't touch us Canadians either.

 

 

 

This is a very flawed system, and it won't be able to do anything. Tell me, are ISPs going to cut off 20% of their customers, and lose all that profit, since as many as 1 in 5 people fileshare? I'm simply assuming that's a probable amount, I cannot find a source.

 

 

 

The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an e-mail to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.

 

 

 

They're only going after the uploaders apparently, not the downloaders. That is mitigated by the fact that pirates will upload music outside of the US, so frankly, they've lost. They're against the wall, and they're officially losing this fight.

 

 

 

Agreed, seems as if it could be extremely flawed. Also, are all ISPs agreeing to this? Seems to me that if one or a few ISPs refuses to comply they may see an increase in customers :P

 

 

 

Yeah, same with the whole net neutrality argument. It'll fix itself, since the provider that doesn't restrict internet access is going to get the most sales obviously.

All the RIAA is going after is Americans who fileshare, and is suspected of music sharing. Never said anything about sharing movies or games, and they can't touch us Canadians either.

 

 

 

This is a very flawed system, and it won't be able to do anything. Tell me, are ISPs going to cut off 20% of their customers, and lose all that profit, since as many as 1 in 5 people fileshare? I'm simply assuming that's a probable amount, I cannot find a source.

 

 

 

The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an e-mail to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.

 

 

 

They're only going after the uploaders apparently, not the downloaders. That is mitigated by the fact that pirates will upload music outside of the US, so frankly, they've lost. They're against the wall, and they're officially losing this fight.

 

 

 

Agreed, seems as if it could be extremely flawed. Also, are all ISPs agreeing to this? Seems to me that if one or a few ISPs refuses to comply they may see an increase in customers :P

I doubt they've struck a deal with the smaller ISPs(my ISP probably has 10,000 customers). I see them doing this with Comcast and the other big ones though.

The internet will soon be moderated by Americans? We're all going to hell.

It'd be interesting to see a list of providers who have agreed so far. Though it's interesting that such big corporations would agree to potentially loosing customers.

The internet will soon be moderated by Americans? We're all going to hell.

 

 

 

The internet belongs to the world. All they're targeting is music uploaders, not pirates apparently. All they're gonna do is control American's internets.

*cough*mimicingAustraliasplan*cough* either way they will fail, idiots :roll:

 

 

 

Making things idiot-proof only makes smarter idiots, same goes with pirates.

So what? They are done? They quit because too many people do this?

 

 

 

That's everyone elses fault not ours the ones downloading it. Aren't they the ones saying stuff on my DVDs like "Illegal downloading could get you to jail! ". For me I don't think twice about it... mostly because out of 300 million people? Who would they catch. Me or the ones sending it to me. So I haven't cared much anyways? I didn't even know people out there wanted me to stop :roll: .