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Originally Posted by ProG
oh I see.... like the first RIAA suits. Do you think it's just scare tactics or are they testing the waters and intend to go after the full 50,000?
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I would guess this first 5,000 are the people they have the strongest evidence against. If this round goes well they might expand it out. I would think they might also just send threatening letters to the other people telling them how lucky they got this time and not to do it again.
However, if this tactic works and they get a decent number of settlements I would think something like this would become more and more common.
As for a scare tactic, I think it works to a degree. There might be people out there that download on occasion that hear about this and decide to give it up, but the hardcore downloaders will probably not be scared off.