US recording industry carries out threat of forcing ISPs to hand over P2P users
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has begun to tighten the screws on hundreds of users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing systems in the US.
It has issued subpoenas to internet service providers (ISPs) in the US to force them to identify customers who are illegally sharing copyrighted music over networks like Kazaa.
The RIAA, the US music recording industry"s leading trade body, announced in June that it would use scanning software to find P2P users. Additional information freely available on the sites is then used to identify the user"s ISP.