Is the RIAA losing ground in the war on filesharing?

There has been some debate on blogs recently as to whether the RIAA has been losing ground in its battle against filesharing. Three recent court rulings may be seen as complicating the way the RIAA deals with filesharing cases.

Until now, the RIAA has been happy to take people to court merely for making tracks available by putting them in folders that other users can then copy from. However, as with Jammie Thomas, the RIAA pays MediaSentry to download songs from users and therefore argue that copyright has been breached. Is this enough?

This is how the RIAA targets its victims. However, there have been accusations that MediaSentry is an unlicensed investigator. Then there is the argument that merely uploading songs is not a breach of copyright.

The whole scenario is becoming increasingly confusing.

Keep a close eye on filesharing court cases in the next few weeks as these recent decisions and debates could have some serious impact.

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Posted on 8 April 2008 by mike in Filesharing