RIAA Getting Ready To Sue Thousands

[Eric Portelance]

Starting today, the RIAA will begin roaming P2P networks in order to pinpoint and find people who are sharing large amounts of files. It will then use this information gathered to launch thousands of lawsuits on these users in order to slow down the spread of music piracy.

"The RIAA expects to use the data it collects as the basis for filing what could ultimately be thousands of lawsuits charging individual peer-to-peer music distributors with copyright infringement, the first round of suits could take place as early as mid-August."

The RIAA plans to use logging software that will track down and log copyrighted files that are in use across P2P networks and then sue the most active sharers. File swappers beware, you should be a little more careful in the coming weeks.