The RIAA has said it intends to sent out a significant number of subpeonas.
Hillary Rosen, president the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a performance-rights group, disagrees.
Yet the RIAA is flooding the Capitol by trying to smear the personal integrity of Westergren.
Eventually the RIAA contacted the accused by writing her a letter, but failed to agree a fine.
The MPAA and RIAA want to protect their own short-term interests rather than adapt to new market forces.
FORBES: Chris Dodd 'Confident' Obama Administration Working On Next SOPA
Besides helping the RIAA track down music pirates, Microsoft has successfully pushed for tougher penalties for software swappers.
The RIAA sued Napster claiming the service allows people to breach copyright and swap pirated MP3 music files.
The RIAA meets weekly with software industry officials to coordinate raids, enforcement strategies and policy goals, according to Creighton.
Sharing reduces sales among music lovers and thus the revenues of RIAA members.
FORBES: File Sharers Buy More Music Than Non-File Sharers: Not Quite What The Report Says
Sources include Pollstar, RIAA, promoters, managers, lawyers and some of the artists themselves.
The fact that ISPs are working with the RIAA in a bid to squash piracy is far from new.
Songwriter Don Henley claimed that the RIAA had sabotaged negotiations with what he called a "misleading and contradictory press release".
We may never know as the RIAA insisted on a confidentiality clause forever preventing the defendants from telling their stories.
It was just a year ago that the public revolted against the RIAA and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA).
The backlash was so great that the RIAA abandoned the strategy a few years ago, but the problem of piracy remained.
FORBES: A Timely Reminder that MPAA and RIAA Shouldn't Be Trusted with Too Much Enforcement Power
When asked about Anontune by Wired, an RIAA spokesman declined to comment.
CNN: Anontune: the new social music platform from 'Anonymous'
The legal battle between the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and file-swapping service Napster is due to resume on 2 October.
The RIAA, representing several major music labels in the case, objects to the trading of files whose copyrights are owned by the plaintiffs.
Judge Patel relegated the AHRA precedent to a minor position in the proceedings because the RIAA had not brought claims under this act.
Since 1985, the RIAA has instituted a voluntary program of placing warning stickers on recordings with content that might be inappropriate for children.
The totals were compiled with the help of data from Pollstar, RIAA and others, in addition to interviews with managers, lawyers and concert promoters.
Microsoft "tends to work together" with the RIAA, says Brad Smith, Microsoft's deputy counsel in charge of copyrights and antipiracy, especially in tracking overseas piracy.
The RIAA said it had found more than 1, 700 music files on Ms Thomas-Rasset's Kazaa account, although this was reduced to 24 titles in the lawsuit.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it was "pleased" with the decision made by District Court Judge Rya Zobel in Massachusetts, reports Cnet.
"The project is not so much a response to Megaupload but a response to the tycoons from the RIAA shutting down music services, " the anon wrote to Wired.
CNN: Anontune: the new social music platform from 'Anonymous'
Finally, should you hit your sixth strike, your case will be forwarded on to the MPAA or RIAA. Things then have the potential to get rather more serious.
The case dates back to 2005, when the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) first accused Jammie Thomas-Rasset of illegally sharing songs on the now defunct service Kazaa.
Although the current EU rules may lead to cheaper CDs, the RIAA says music fans are better off in the long term if copyright is protected for longer.
And RIAA stands for Really Intends to Alienate the Audience.
The RIAA blames online music piracy for falling sales of CDs and has been relentless in using the courts to fight people and services suspected of facilitating online song-sharing.
应用推荐