It has been revealed that the Recording Industry Association of America has made the decision to drop its independent prosecutions of online copyright violators, instead making it the sole responsibility of the Internet Service Providers concerned.
The RIAA believes its decision will enable a wider spectrum of illegal file sharers to be caught and prosecuted, with a graduated series of sanctions being dealt out by the ISPs.
Under the move, the RIAA will reach agreements with ISPs, allowing it to work in the background to identify those individuals it believes to be illegally downloading and sharing music files online, and will then send emails detailing its findings to the ISPs in question.
It will then be the job of the ISPs to impose appropriate punishments based upon the extent of the copyright infringements.
The first step will normally be to contact an offender with an official warning. If this is ignored, however, then the ISP will have the power to slow down the individual's internet connection to deter them from downloading, and ultimately, if both these measures fail, then the ISP will simply disconnect the individual and permanently block their internet access. Individuals will have the right to challenge ISPs' actions under an administrative procedure to be set in place.
The RIAA has adopted this new approach as a drastic last-ditch attempt to challenge the unremitting level of copyright abuse which has been continuing since 2003.
The past five years has seen over 35,000 American individuals successfully convicted and punished on the basis of copyright infringement, yet this has done little to reduce the overall number of people taking part in the activity on an annual basis.
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