US Internet service providers (ISPs) Comcast and AT & T agreed to work with music industry in an effort to curb online piracy, according to a CNET News report.
Few months ago, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) had announced its new measure to stop online piracy by working with Internet providers which can provide warnings and cut service connections of illegal-file sharers.
When asked for comments, AT&T said it will not implement a campaign which can deprive customers with their Internet connection.
Meanwhile, record labels and artist said that if this plan has been executed, there will be a potent solution that can address the looming problem of online piracy which RIAA blamed as the main reason for the declining sales of the music industry.
Communication experts believed that RIAA’s campaign against websites promoting piracy will be more potent if Internet providers, both mainstream and small-scale companies, will support measures to stop digital piracy from the Internet as these companies are the gatekeepers of all the contents found on the web.
Last year, the recording industry has abandoned its mass lawsuit against 35,000 people charged with infringement raps as it decided to adopt a new measure called “three strikes”.
While this policy was already implemented in France two years ago, this has not been passed in other countries.
Under this policy, people who have illegally downloaded copyrighted materials for the third time will have their Internet service cutoff.
Meanwhile, despite attempts of RIAA to pass this policy to other countries, most ISPs have refused its implementation as there are many legal issues which can arise when customers’ Internet connection is cutoff.
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