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US recording association to stop piracy lawsuits
AFP - Saturday, December 20
WASHINGTON (AFP) - - The US recording association said Friday that it will stop suing people who download music illegally and focus instead on getting Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to take action.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it is working with New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and leading ISPs on the new approach to cracking down on online music piracy.
The move away from litigation represents a major shift in strategy for the music industry group, which has filed lawsuits against some 35,000 people for online music piracy since 2003.
The RIAA said agreement in principle had been reached with several ISPs, which it did not identify, on a voluntary graduated response program to copyright violations.
Under the program, ISPs would alert subscribers to copyright infringement notices and carry out a series of escalating sanctions.
Repeated infringement could lead to Internet accounts being cut off.
The RIAA said that while it was ending its litigation program, pending cases would continue and the association reserves the right to file suit in cases where notices from ISPs are ignored.
The Internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a comment on its blog, welcomed the end to the lawsuit campaign calling it "long overdue" and a "failure."
But EFF commentator Fred von Lohmann wrote that "more troubling is the news that the RIAA is pressuring US ISPs into adopting some sort of '3 strikes' approach, similar to those it's been seeking in Europe."
"By conservative estimates, one in five American Internet users is an active file-sharer," he wrote. "Does the recording industry really think that banning 20 percent of Americans from the Internet is the right answer?"
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