GristyMcFisty used our news submit to tell us that the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has sent out over 600,000 letters to various internet users sharing music and software over the internet to warn them to stop. The RIAJ started sending letters in early March and will complete its operation of sending letters to internet users by the end of May. The total number of letters that the RIAJ will have sent by the end of May could well be over 1 million, this operation seems like overkill compared to the RIAA's operation which have just been targeting the heavy sharers and downloader's with lawsuits. Once the RIAJ's operation is finished in May, legal action will most likely start against users that share or download music and software illegaly.
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A REPORT YESTERDAY said that the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has sent out over 600,000 letters warning people about sharing music and software over the Internet.It started sending out letters in early March, and will complete its efforts by the end of May. The wire reported that the RIAJ will send out a million letters warning of infringement by the end of May.And the RIAJ may well follow that up with legal action, nikkei.net reports, here (sub required). |
You can read the full story over at The Inquirer. Well I must say as the article pointed out the post office ofJapan must be doing pretty well since the start of March. Looks like users in the USA and Europe are getting it easy with the RIAA only targeting major sharers and downloader's. With the way RIAJ is trying to stop music sharers I wouldn't be surprised if thousands of lawsuits are filed straight away once they have stopped their letter sending spree.
Source: The Inquirer
