RIAA to Cease Prosecution of File Sharers
Written by andy on December 23rd, 2008 in Software.
The RIAA has decided to cease prosecution of file sharers directly, and instead force ISP’s to become the new copyright police.
The RIAA wasn’t even able to truly determine if people were sharing music, so you ISP is supposed to be able to figure it out?
Is ATT, my ISP, going to know I’m using BitTorrent legitimately, or are they going to assume that because my music library also exists on the same computer that is running BitTorrent, that I must be an illegal music file-sharer?
This isn’t helping anyone; the RIAA is just trying to find more effective means to catch people doing what may be legitimate work. It just gets scarier, doesn’t it? My BitTorrent machine is offline right now, not because of this, but because we are having new flooring put in the room where it resides.
