Is the RIAA in p2p retreat?
p2p news / p2pnet: Are the members of the Big Four record label cartel finally seeing the insanity of trying to sue their own customers in bizarre attempts to get them to buy ‘product,” as the Big Four Organized Music cartel members call their grossly over-priced low-fidelity digital music offerings? Are they at last backing away from their sue ‘em all campaign?
Their RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) ‘trade’ unit has been especially active on Capitol Hill, but strangely silent on file sharing, says Digital Music News, noting that the RIAA normally, “routinely publicizes its sweeps”.
It does indeed, announcing victim groups which usually amount to 750 or so men, men and even children, on an almost monthly basis.
So far, close to 19,000 Americans have been subpoenaed, events Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG use the mainstream media to suggest are successful criminal prosecutions, although there’s no such offense as file sharing, criminal or otherwise, nothing has been stolen, no money has changed hands and corporate music industry problems have been created entirely by the music industry itself.
Meanwhile, the last formal announcement surrounding individual lawsuits dates back to February 28, the story points out, going on:
“That development raises some questions, though an RIAA representative pointed Digital Music News towards a quieter, more local approach. ‘We are filing lawsuits on a weekly basis now,’ the representative said, while pointing to a ‘more local push’.”
The lawsuits date back to September, 2003 and have been singularly unsuccessful in curbing file-sharing volume, but they have put, “considerable pressure on the organization and industry,” says the story, adding:
” ‘The lawsuits simply don’t scale,’ opined one top executive in the space. Meanwhile, the RIAA has been pointing to a ‘containment’ of file-sharing volume over the past year, part of its continued message on the matter.”
(Thanks again, Sal)
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Also See:
Digital Music News – RIAA Goes Local on Individual File-Sharing Lawsuits, June 20, 2006
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June 21st, 2006 at 3:44 pm
“Are they at last backing away from their sue ‘em all campaign?”
Are you kidding me, this is no different than some big asshole taking a breather after he has punched out a bunch of people in a bar. You can be sure the RIAA will resume aggressively suing people soon.
June 21st, 2006 at 3:52 pm
-= Disclaimer: This is just my opinion. =-
- As such I’m NOT suggesting any comment -
- following this preface is true. In fact -
- I live in a fairy-tale and nothing I -
- say should be taken seriously. -
No retreat.
They have finally learned ( took a realy long time ) that the
publicity these suits generated has HURT them more than anything
else.
New tactic ……
Claim file sharing is contained.
Continue to sue, but do it VERY VERY quietly.
This will make the general population THINK that the industry is
backing off, and since they no longer HEAR about lawsuits, they
must no be happening, right ?
Easy to do, since , after all, the same corporations that control
the entertainment industry also control the mainstream news
outlets. Niiiiiice.
June 21st, 2006 at 8:28 pm
They’re enjoying their Summer vacation paid for by all the court settlements.
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:20 am
what was her name? Hillary ….Clinton… no Duff… no Rosen :
“there arent enough lawyers on the planet”
maybe they just realised that the more they advertise it the more they attract users to file sharing networks – so it seems p2p usage hasnt risen as much over the past couple of months – am I the only one that sees the connection between them being quiet about law suits and slightly less increase in file sharing users … LOL!
Can anyone ask those at the The Recording Industry v The People Blog about fresh lawsuits – I thought they had some way of tracking the activity…?