Music industry to end policy of suing song swappers
LOS ANGELES — The group representing the U.S. music assiduity says it will abandon its policy of suing people for sharing songs protected by copyright.
The Recording Industry Association of America says that now it will try to stop alleged music pirates by working with Internet service providers to cut access to frequent abusers.
The incense ends a polemical program that saw the industry sue more than 30,000 people after 2003 as antidote to swapping songs online.
The recording association said today that its new efforts by several leading U.S. Internet reverence providers would engage a meaningful deterrent, so it will curve down its legal assault. The group says it will still transfer out cases already filed.
The determination was first reported in The Wall Street Journal.
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