In a related story, Satan claims that he will no longer tempt Johnny with a fiddle made of gold.

"one nail in it's sic coffin. Now the RIAA has put its hands up"

6000 songs a month? It would take 60 days 24/7 just to listen to that much music. That's not theft, it's obsessive compulsive disorder.

When you sign up for a service provider, you agree not to use their service to break the law.
Someone running a site with illegally shared copyrighted material is breaking the law.
The copyright owners have ever right in the world to sue the ISP. They can either do that in court, or give them a prior notice requiring them to take down the offending site and/or give them the person's name and address etc. that was breaking the law, so that they can sue to have said person prosecuted.
If you think this is not legal, just ask the folks that used to operate "Demonoid" or whatever torrent site that was that got bitch-slapped big time in a California appeals court.
Downloading is one thing, POSTING is where I see the bigger guilt lies.

The ISP is a carrier, not unlike any telco. They are not law enforcement agencies. And it's certainly not the business of the RIAA to tell ISPs how they must deal with their own customers or what policies they should adopt.

If two persons use land lines or mobile phones to conspire to commit an illegal act, are the telecom companies then responsible for that? If two Americans use postal mail to plot a crime, is the US Post Office then responsible?

Jeff Mincey

Who among you has ever made a Cassette tape or CD of your favorite songs? Everyone has.

It's the same thing. We simply live in a digital world now and the record industry, that has ripped consumers off for generations, is now getting slapped back for it's greedy practices. The practices perpetrated by the record industry over the last 80+ years are far worse than any down-loader could ever enact.

Making a cassette tape (who uses those anymore?) or cd for YOUR own use is not illegal... Making that same set of music available to untold millions of other people so that they don't purchase a copy of it for themselves is illegal. Doesn't matter if you make it available via download, or send off cds/tapes to all those people, or put up a stand on the street. Ask for money for those (even if it's a small sum) and you're really doing something illegal...

Personally, 99.5% of the music I have has been purchased in one form or another. I either own the cd's or have purchased it via the iTunes store. That remaining half percent is music that simply isn't available for purchase anywhere be it online or brick and mortar stores.

Personally, I store my music on a NAS device (with a RAID 5 array, so it's protected from drive failure)... This way I can use any of my several systems to play the music there. I just wish that apple didn't lock you to just five systems (at a time) for authentication to their DRM crudware.

As for the offenders that the RIAA is now going after... 5000 to 6000+ downloads a MONTH is excessive... I have to wonder, though, if they really mean uploads and downloads, since that would target the people hosting the limewire crud too...

BTW, not sure where Tau_Myx got his numbers from, but based off my iTunes listing, 6000 songs would take about 17-1/3 days to play completely (playing 24/7)... Still an excessive amount, but no where near the 60 days you stated. Even going to round numbers of a 5 minute 'average' song length, you're still only looking at just under 21 days (20.833)...