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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."
"Specifically, when we determine the IP address of an infringer, we would like to send you the IP address along with a Notice of Infringement that you would forward directly to the subscriber matching that address," the RIAA wrote. "You would not identify the subscriber to us. However, we believe if you forward the Notice to them it will dramatically increase awareness and effectively discourage continued infringement."
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I am pretty sure that most (all?) of the people who share files on a large scale know that the content is copyright and really don't give a flying farkle.
What will they do with this letter when they get it? Laugh at it and use it as toilet paper sounds likely.
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This is all based on the erroneous assumption that we somehow NEED the RIAA to get good music. They'd love to have everyone believe that they're the only thing that keeps the good music coming, when in reality they're just an organization devoted to cashing in on people. They have this profit-centric approach to art so perfected that they don't even need artistic talent anymore...they can just suck the blood out of one fad after another.
The RIAA wants to think of musicians like bacteria in a petri dish, that needs to be protected and coddled...I say give me the virulent strain, the one that's had to contend with antibiotics, the elements, and the human immune system.
Only in a brutal, difficult music industry, devoid of fat cats with big wallets, will the truly great artists end up on top.
But there is another kind of evil that we must fear most... and that is the indifference of good men.
I myself have believed for some time that it is not about profit as much as about power and control. They want to control the artists, what music is popular and who buys what.
This power shit is scary. I believe with Dubya it, too, is about power. He (or is it everyone in government?) want to control us absolutely and to keep track of us 24x7. Aaargh!!!