The record industry in July will start sending ISPs offending IP addresses for graduated responses in piracy cases. Cary Sherman, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America, said most of the participating ISPs are on track to begin
implementing the program by July 1. The ISPs that have joined up with the RIAA are Comcast, Time Warner, Verizon, AT&T, Cablevision and Comcast. The program requires that ISPs send out one or two educational notices to those customers
who are accused of downloading copyrighted content illegally. If the customer doesn't put a halt to the practice, the ISP is then asked to send out confirmation notices asking that they confirm they have received notice. Legal expert Doug
Lichtman, a UCLA law professor spoke to an adult industry seminar about these copyright alerts. Calling them warm 'nastygrams,' Lichtman told the adult industry that they should adopt the system, and that file sharers could be persuaded to
be come paying consumers. |