AT&T Has Begun Issuing RIAA Takedown Notices

suraj.sun writes with this excerpt from CNet: "AT&T, one of the nation's largest Internet service providers, confirmed on Tuesday the company is working with the recording industry to combat illegal file sharing. At a digital music conference in Nashville, Jim Cicconi, a senior executive for AT&T told the audience that the ISP has begun issuing takedown notices to people accused of pirating music by the Recording Industry Association of America, according to one music industry insider who was present. In December, the RIAA, the lobbying group of the four largest recording companies, announced the group would no longer pursue an antipiracy strategy that focused on suing individuals, but rather would seek the help of broadband providers to stem the flow of pirated content. The RIAA said an undisclosed number of ISPs had agreed to cooperate but declined to name them. This is important because the RIAA has said that repeat offenders faced the possibility of losing service — at least temporarily — as part of the music industry's 'graduated response' plan."

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Re:The problem is Theft!

[Anonymous Coward]

You know you are going to run up against the "I have not stolen anything, they still have their music-I just have a copy" argument. The copyright violator is not really stealing the music, they are stealing the effort. The effort not only of the artist but that of the sound board guy, the other people who mix and clean up the sound, they guy who runs the CD press, they guy who designs the CD jacket, Printers, truck drivers, music store employees. All of these people are made to have just a little less each time a sale is lost to copyright violation.

And to the copyright violator, don't say "I would not have bought it", You went to the work of finding and downloading it.