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RIAA To Stop Prosecuting Individual File Sharers

Posted by kdawson on from the declare-victory-and-withdraw dept.

debatem1 writes "According to the Wall Street Journal, the RIAA has decided to abandon its current tactic of suing individuals for sharing copyrighted music. Ongoing lawsuits will be pursued to completion, but no new ones will be filed. The RIAA is going to try working with the ISPs to limit file-sharing services and cut off repeated users. This very surprising development apparently comes as a result of public distaste for the campaign." An RIAA spokesman is quoted as saying that the litigation campaign has been "successful in raising the public's awareness that file-sharing is illegal."

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  1. Exhausted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Can you blame them? I mean you rape and you rape, and then one day, well, you just can't rape anymore. For five minutes. Then you just switch holes and go for another round.

  2. Re:Film and TV producers also call for action by theaveng · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is a European television network. Chinese doesn't make sense, but English does since most Europeans are already using it online.

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  3. Re:File sharing isn't illegal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Your logic is lost on a lemming. You are absolutely right, there are legitimate uses for bittorrent but the vast majority of uses are for copyright infringement. Its funny how pirating is good around here when the same laws that condemn piracy also protect and form the basis of what makes the GPL successful.

  4. Re:File sharing isn't illegal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Um, actually the logic should go: Filesharing is for piracy but it can ALSO be used for legal purposes. Bwaha.