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RIAA wants music pirates to lose internet

December 28, 11:23 PM
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Downloads of music and other digital media can still be criminal if RIAA proves their case

Taking on a new strategy in the "war on music downloads", the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), has taken to attempting to "work with" internet service providers to help curb illegal music downloading by giving lists of abusers in ISP's in hopes to warn, ban, or suspend services of those violators.

Where this plan hasn't worked in the past either with the downloading of movies, and a similar lawsuit in appeals court on behalf of PS2 has already claimed those users sharing music on their system will not be reported, there is little insurance that internet service providers, already struggling to keep customers in the days of every mobile phone and MP3 player having a browser and WI-Fie accessibility, attacking what their customers do online doesn't seem to make much sense. 

Colleges and Universities as well asked to report the music pirates on their campus' are already laughing off the demands of the RIAA and very few students have been turned in for violating music trafficking online.

According to Tech News Review, the RIAA has no plans for anymore lawsuits or upcoming action to see that demands are actually met.  Until then, keep file sharing kids!

Anyone remember the joys of discovering a new band anymore?

 

 

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Preceding a Journalism degree, Jyn Radakovits wanted to be immersed in music. Meeting Mat Devine of Kill Hannah and interviewing him for her college newspaper paved the way for a career in music journalism nearly a decade later. Radakovits is a staff writer for Chicago Innerview Magazine as well as public relations assistant for Kill Hannah’s fan community and editor for e-zine The Believer Times.
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