There’s an interesting post on Zeropaid at the moment that outlines how the RIAA targets people suspected of illegal filesharing. The RIAA has said that it used the same programs that regular filesharing people use, such as Limewire and Kazaa. MediaSentry, the RIAA’s partner in tackling filesharing, runs one of the filesharing programs and then searches for copyrighted material to see if anybody is sharing it by making it available.

MediaSentry then browses the host to see what other copyrighted material is being made available. This way they can then see the person’s IP address. MediaSentry then notes down this IP address, as well as details of copyright material that is being made available for illegal music downloads.

The problem for the RIAA now is that this idea of making songs available is now not holding up in court. The RIAA may need to start proving that other people have downloaded the music, which would effectively outdate this method.

Interesting stuff.

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