ISPs Not Cooperating With RIAA's Name-Grab

rocketjam writes "The RIAA has a new plan to fight P2P file trading since an appeals court ruled that Internet service providers don't have to turn over the names of suspected music pirates to them. The RIAA has now proposed, in a letter to the 50 largest ISPs in the US, that they supply the identifying IP address of suspected music traders to their ISP after which the ISP would send a notice to the user informing them they are suspected of illegal trading but not yet targeted for a lawsuit by the music industry. Internetnews.com reports that according to industry sources they've contacted, not one ISP has agreed to cooperate with the music industry's new plan. ISPs have been cautious in their public responsed to the RIAA proposal, although they all agree they are under no legal obligation to comply with any RIAA request."

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Not so sorry

[turboalberta]

Basically, i'm not feeling very sorry for most of the garbage groups that are going down the garbage can right now. Screw em. On the other hand, probably some real gems, which we'll never know about anyway because they don't get any publicity, are going down the garbage can also. That i'm feeling sorry about. But let's say they're just collateral damage. I haven't been hearing any real good music since years, probably because most music has to be immediately consumable or they won't even try to promote it. Basically they are getting what they asked for: no long time vision, no money either in the long term.