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RIAA Drops P2P Lawsuit Strategy, Goes Local

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the friendly-visit-from-your-music-biz-pals dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wondering why the RIAA hasn't announced 800 lawsuits per month any more? Well, they're still suing people, but have developed a new strategy according to Slyck.com. Instead the RIAA is looking to be more localized, focused and personal with its new strategy." As another reader puts it, the RIAA "will opt to file lawsuits on a weekly basis and work with local media to give it a more geographically relevant feel." Perhaps they'll also pick their targets a bit more carefully.

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  1. Re:Translation by owlnation · · Score: 5, Informative
    1. How does the RIAA control the media so well? Are the big papers and news channels really lazy enough to only report things that have press releases?
    Possibly because the RIAA has direct and indirect connections to the media.

    The MPAA most certainly does. For example: 20th Century Fox is part of http://www.newscorp.com/operations/other.html which owns the NY Post, The Sun and the Times in the UK, and many many many more news outlets all over the world. There is not a snowball's chance in Hell of getting negative publicity over any MPAA action in a News Corp media business.

    And so on with Time Warner and the rest...

    While they are not the RIAA per se - there are connections between all these players, and a joint vested interest.