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RIAA Letter to ISPs Asks for Help in Combating File-Sharing

By soulxtc

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Form letter it plans to send to ISPs warning of suspected illegal P2P activity by individuals asks that they "remove or disable access to the unauthorized music" while still retaining their right to sue individual users it identifies. With the file-sharing community still abuzz after recent news that the RIAA has decided to quit targeting individual file-sharers and instead target them en masse at the ISP level, it's interesting to discover a copy of the form letter that it plans to disseminate. It's pretty straightforward, but the tone of the letter again reaffirms the concern of myself and others that its request that ISPs "remove or disable access to the unauthorized music" entails a very serious repercussion - loss of online connectivity - without the due diligence of verifying the submitted evidence in a court of law. With the Internet having become the primary source of education and communication, we shouldn't allow it to be stripped away so easily. It reads as follows: VIA EMAIL *ISP* *Date* Sir or Madam: I am contacting you on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America, Inc.

Full post as published by ZeroPaid on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).