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Thursday?s plan, meanwhile, provides no immunity for internet subscribers facing legal action, and leaves it up to the rights holders to detect infringement.
?As provided under current law, copyright owners may also seek remedies directly against the owner of an internet account based on evidence they may collect,? according to the deal. Sherman said in the telephone conference that the RIAA does ?not rule out the possibility of bringing litigation? against repeat file sharing offenders.
The Copyright Act allows damages of up to $150,000 per infringement. Peer-to-peer file sharing of copyrighted works is easily detectable, as IP addresses of internet customers usually reveal themselves during the transfer of files.
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Nothing changes as far as going after downloaders......or, uploaders,....or sites hosting stolen content.
Seems that we just have a warning system for downloaders going into play.