Another month, another round of RIAA litigation. Yep, the Recording Industry Association Of America have issued another 750 lawsuits against individuals accused of illegally sharing copyrighted music via P2P networks like LimeWire and Kazaa. As always these are 'John Doe' lawsuits - targeted against IP addresses where file sharing activity has been identified. The RIAA will use the first round of legal action to force ISPs to hand over the names and addresses of the individuals using the IP addresses.
Given that the industry association has now issued thousands of these lawsuits, but P2P usage seems to continue to grow in the US, you have to wonder if RIAA chiefs now see regular litigation against music fans as part of its day to day operations, or if they will ever admit that such legal action achieves little except, in the early days, a bit of good PR for their side of the ongoing P2P debate.