Six months later, no ISPs joining RIAA

[caseagainstfaith]

I wasn't sure if this would go here or under entertainment...since personally i consider this both haha!

Last December, the music industry's message to song writers, publishers, and musicians was that antipiracy help was on the way. Hopes soared after the major labels announced that they had convinced a group of telecoms to work with them.

Filing lawsuits against individuals accused of illegal file sharing was, for the most part, a thing of the past, said the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing the top music companies. The new strategy was to enlist Internet service providers, the gatekeepers of the Web, which would issue a series of warnings designed to increase pressure on alleged pirates in what the RIAA called a "graduated response." Under the plan, those subscribers who refused to heed warnings could eventually see their Web connection suspended.

Six months later, the music industry is still waiting to hear from the RIAA which ISPs have explicitly agreed to work with the association. When the RIAA first announced its new antipiracy project, it didn't name partners. Behind the scenes, industry insiders assured the media that the group would disclose the names of partner ISPs "within weeks." Six months later, however, not one ISP has publicly acknowledged working with the RIAA on a "graduated response."

Source - news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10256481-93.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0

[caseagainstfaith]

wow no replys yet..well at least i thought this was funny.

[Napoleon the Clown]

Wait more than five hours before getting antsy over no replies.... Seriously.

[GodIsRealUnlessDeclaredInteger]

/me grins! Way to go, ISPs!

[Dr. Waldorf X]

Good. A nice fat middle finger to the RIAA that they deserved years ago.

[m52nickerson]

The ISP's have not reason to do anything more then send the notices. If they did, they would start to loss some customers.

[Captain Obvious]

I doubt any ISP would shoot themselves in the foot by agreeing to something like that. They don't lose any money from piracy, but if they start bugging their customers with warnings about piracy or actually having to disconnect people then they will start hemorrhaging money and users.

I swear, the second one of them publicly signs on with the RIAA it will see a mass exodus of customers, probably not enough to really endanger the ISP, but enough to hit them where it hurts. Their bank accounts.

[The_WHHAAAMMMM_Burgler]

They actually though that blackmailing ISPs would stop piracy within the United States. This sentiment is so utterly stupid it was horrifying, now it is rather humorous. Hell, try filtering encrypted data streams, especially SSH or TLS. Good luck with that one. I still remember when TOR server administrators were throwing a conniption over people using their servers/nodes as socks5 proxies (a pity some did not adapt to socks4a until later). In particular this was for bit torrent, IRC and LimeWire. Routers refusing to set static IP addresses were more of a threat than traffic shaping.

If they wanted to make an impact go after Rapidshare.com, megaupload or any other file hosing service that has servers in the United States. Those services lack an interest in removing pirated content even with a DMCA.