ISPs Deaf to RIAA’s Statements

Earlier this year RIAA reassured everyone that its latest adopted approach towards the eradication of file sharing, meaning the collaboration with major ISPs, was going to be quite fructuous. At the end of 2008, the same organization had no choice but to admit that their rather ‘pushy’ practice of suing people left and right without even proper evidence was not delivering the hoped for results.

However, it seems now that the new ‘strategy’ involving ISPs is not working as expected either. According to CNET, the RIAA has yet to reveal the names of those ISPs it supposedly works with to the recording industry.

The industry’s watchdog probably bit more than it could chew – while it claims its collaboration with many ISPs have resulted in about half a million notices sent out to suspected file sharers during the last six months, there’s no reliable evidence to support that. It’s becoming clearer each day that ISPs are not jumping onto the chance of helping over the RIAA and loosing this way precious customers. A more solid proposition to include a scheme that would justify their waste of time and money could move ISPs toward what the industry wants but until then chances that they easily comply with the latter’s demands are slim. Very slim.