chsbiking used our newssubmit to tell us that RIAA is now trying to put pressure on ISPs, as according to the RIAA they are the source of the music sales slump. As the ISPs offer broadband services, they also allow faster downloads of music files.
The broadband connections are populair because they allow fast file swapping, according to the RIAA. The organistation also claims that in any given network, peer-to-peer traffic is between 30 (percent) and 60 percent of total traffic.
The music industry is in a tailspin with global sales of CDs expected to fall six percent in 2003, its fourth consecutive annual decline. A major culprit, industry watchers say, is online piracy. Now, the industry wants to hit the problem at its source--Internet service providers (ISPs). |
"We will hold ISPs more accountable," said Hillary Rosen, chairman and CEO the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in her keynote speech at the Midem music conference on the French Riviera. "Let's face it. They know there's a lot of demand for broadband simply because of the availability (of file-sharing)," Rosen said.
As broadband access in homes has increased across the Western world, so has the activity on file-sharing services.
What kind of pressure the RIAA could use to have the ISPs is not know. Of course if they would let the ISPs pay, in the end the customers will have to pay, as it's very like fees will go up then. Read the entire story here
Source: News.com
