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RIAA To Stop Suing Individuals For Online Piracy [Piracy]
Gizmodo —
... Whether you're a pratin' granny, single mom or a full-on haxxor, you no longer have to dread waking up to an RIAA summons. They still might rat you out to your ISP, though. ...
RIAA Jerks To Stop Suing Individuals For Online Piracy [Piracy]
Gizmodo —
Whether you're a pratin' granny, single mom or a full-on haxxor, you no longer have to dread waking up to an RIAA summons. They still might rat you out to your ISP, though. Alas, it took the RIAA five years and 35,000 cases to realize that suing individual for illegal downloads was not an effective deterrent. Not only was it an abject PR failure, not even the RIAA has ever pretended that it was making a difference. That's not to say the RIAA is not entirely out of the anti-pirate game, of course. Now, they will focus on notifying your ISP of your ...
RIAA Stops Suing Individuals, Works With ISPs Instead [File Sharing]
Lifehacker —
[image] After nearly 35,000 lawsuits against alleged illegal file-sharers, the RIAA is halting legal action . Instead, the music industry says it will work with ISPs to shame and punish pirates. That means that if someone is found to be offering up copyright-protected goods, the RIAA and its anti-piracy agents will pass the information on to that uploader's internet service provider. Under most circumstances, there's a warning letter/email, then a bandwidth cap, then removal, if the sharing continued. The Wall Street Journal article notes that the RIAA won't say which internet ...
RIAA Stops Suing Individuals: Are We Home Free?
Today @ PC World —
piracy, riaa, p2p, file-sharing, legal matters The RIAA has set aside its gavel and will stop prosecuting individuals for pirating digital music files, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Does this mean you should hop on Limewire and fill an iPod with illegal tunes? Not quite. Instead of its usual strategy of pinning scofflaws and wringing them through the court system, the RIAA will shift the burden to ISPs. When it appears as though an ISP customer is downloading illegally, the RIAA will contact the ISP and it will now be the ISP's responsibility to slap wrists via ...
The RIAA will stop its policy of filing lawsuits every 2 seconds (but now it’s working with your ISP)
CrunchGear —
... The RIAA has decided to stop filing pointless lawsuits against John and Jane Doe for alleged copyright infringement. Rather, the bullying cartel will work with ISPs to get you kids to stop downloading Fallout Boy, the All American Rejects and other self-described popular music. ...
RIAA abandons mass suits, pirates rejoice
Mobile Whack —
... onto the news. It was recently brought to the media that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will cease prosecuting individual file sharers for downloading music. Instead, they have decided to take a different initiative, focusing on big uploaders and repeat offenders. So now, if you download music and/or share it excessively, the RIAA will contact your ISP who will then take appropriate action, which may include shutting off your internet. That is, if you get caught. Read (WSJ) Tags: ...
RIAA's New Piracy Plan Poses a New Set of Problems
Today @ PC World —
[image] The Recording Industry Association of America is taking a dangerous step with its decision to stop suing suspected music sharers and start cutting off their Internet access instead. While the discontinuation of the lawsuit practice has its merits, the move opens up a whole new can of worms -- one that could have serious implications for our future rights as consumers of information. The Good On the one hand, the shift -- revealed Friday, initially in a story published in The Wall Street Journal -- does mark the end of a troubling and generally ineffective process. RIAA's past practice of independently tracking down and going after ...
Music, Movie and Software Piracy: What’s Your Chance of Getting Caught?
Digital Trends —
“No two ways about it: Piracy is legally and morally wrong.”
We’ve all heard it a million times. We’ve heard the analogies to walking out of a store with a CD under your jacket, sending software developers straight to the unemployment line or ripping food right out of a poor key grip’s mouth. And for some of us, we’ve even seen people we know ensnared by the law when they finally get caught gorging on free motion pictures and music.
Like drivers who slow down to pass a state trooper ticketing another driver, then quickly slam on the gas to get back up to 85 though, not everyone fears the reaper. After all – who ...
