Petteri Pyyny
22 Aug 2002 13:12
RIAA has dropped its lawsuit against major backbone ISPs, stating that the site they wanted to block, Listen4ever.com, has been shut down. Site has been unavailable -- at least from western countries -- since Sunday.
RIAA's legal pressure against major backbone ISPs caused a huge media attention earlier this week, because of its possible effects to the Internet as a whole -- censorship and forcing ISPs to block specific sites, like in this case, could lead in a situation where various countries start asking backbone providers to block content that is not "acceptable" in specific country, etc., ultimately limiting Net's freedom dramatically.
Anyway, RIAA still has plans to sue the individuals who operated the site in Peoples Republic of China, through its international sister organization, IFPI.