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Once again, in an effort to stop all of those illegal downloads of music, the music industry is changing its tactics. Instead of taking the you who may be downloading music from P2P's or from free download services to court and suing you, the Recording Industry Association of America is teaming up with the ISP's (Internet-service providers ). The recording industry has started legal proceedings against some 35,000 people since 2003. We all know how well that has worked.
Instead, the Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers. The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.
Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.
For those of you who do this kind of thing, it is not the downloading that can get you into trouble, it is the uploading. If you are going to download music through such services as " FrostWire " and others, do not share your files. Not all of them, anyway.
