New RIAA plea for help is low on ISPs to do list
Posted by Dan Bell on 18 January 2004 - 03:28 - Source: Internet News
RichMan used our news submit to tell us that Internet News is reporting that ISP's are not playing ball with the RIAA. Try to stifle a snicker as you read this and you may give yourself a hernia.
After it was ruled that Internet service providers don't have to identify suspected music pirates to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), communication lines are faltering. ISPs are showing zero cooperation with Mitch Brainwol and his lackeys in their latest mailing effort to enlist aid in the fight against music piracy.
The RIAA now wants ISPs to notify its customers that are suspected of illegal downloading but not yet targeted for a lawsuit by the music industry.
"We would like to work with you to supplement our efforts by arranging for ISPs to notify their subscribers who are engaged in infringing activity that this conduct is illegal," the RIAA wrote to most of the nation's 50 largest ISPs in a Dec. 16 letter. "We are asking you to do this without providing us any identifying information about the subscriber."
Under the proposal, the RIAA would supply an identifying IP address of a suspected infringer to its ISP, which would then send a notice of infringement to the subscriber.
According to industry officials contacted by internetnews.com, not one ISP has agreed to cooperate with the music industry, which was dealt a major legal setback on Dec. 19 when an appeals court ruled the RIAA could not force ISPs to turn over the identities of alleged music pirates. The RIAA claimed it had subpoena power under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).
Now that's odd, perhaps they thought it was spam and deleted it. Or maybe they don't want to "get involved". Those of you that would like to read the rest of the story go here. It has a good portion of the letter in it and some quotes from RIAA officials.
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/8905
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