Inside the RIAA and MediaSentry

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 10, 2008 @12:20AM from the belly-of-the-beast dept.

bsdewhurst sends along an interesting article about how MediaSentry and the RIAA identify file sharers. Since 2003, while the RIAA has been filing 28,000 lawsuits, the percentage of US Internet users using P2P for downloading music has dropped from 20% to 19% (there is no knowing how much of a factor the lawsuits have been). The list the RIAA uses for ISP takedown notices is about 700 currently popular songs that are updated based on the charts, so not liking the top 40 could save you. The list of songs tracked for the user-litigation program is said to be larger.

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MOD PARENT DOWN - DID NOT RTFA by mumblestheclown · 2008-06-10 02:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Objections 1 - 5 (all of them) are accounted for in the article, which explicitly describes how, when, and why takedown decisions are made and what the verification process is. Please mod the parent post down, as he is throwing up FUD which clearly shows that he did not RTFA.