After several years of futility, the Recording Industry Association of America has finally realized that they're not going to scare everyone away from downloading music by hunting down and suing individual people (35,000 since 2003, apparently). So are they going to just chill out and find something more worthwhile to focus their time and energy on? Well, not quite.
Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers. The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.
Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.
This is kind of like trying to get the people who fill potholes to be the same guys who give out speeding tickets. Not only that, but how exactly does the RIAA expect ISPs to detect this? There is no way for an ISP to pull this off in any way that isn't easily-defeated by users. Yet another waste of time. This is how you eliminate illegal music downloading, by the way.
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