Does RIAA Tell the Truth about Its Court Cases?

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has revealed recently some figures concerning their main occupation – lawsuits – which many claim as inexact. Documents forwarded to the court by the trade group said that it had obtained out-of-court settlements from 4,000 of the 18,000 people it contacted after discovering their involvement in copyright infringing activities on p2p file-sharing networks, Digital Music News reports.

Back in December (when the RIAA made an announcement that few believed – that it would put an end to the massive lawsuits campaign) The Wall Street Journal gave an estimation of the total number of legal actions launched against alleged file-sharers by the RIAA to be 35,000.

It’s not that much an effort to believe instead Digital Music News when it writes that the record industry’s watchdog "appears to be grossly underestimating, perhaps to soften its image to the court." After all, they did receive a great deal of harsh criticism due to their greedy policy and considering the shock created (and seen as such even by the artists) by the recent trial against Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a mother of four who has been ordered to pay $1.9 million to music industry, that’s only to be expected.