Comment Re:They have lowered the burden of proof. (Score 1) 619
The new approach will be more expedient, and less costly, since their victims don't get any due process rights.
Due process is becoming more and more a problem for the RIAA. They can avoid the problem of "due process" by making the ISPs agree to cut off subscribers without due process.
A central element in countries (like France and the UK) where the music business is doing this is to ensure that the customer contracts with the ISPs allow the ISP to cut off the customer without due process.
This will happen in the US too. And there will likely be heavy lobbying to ensure that ISPs should be required to have a clause in their customer contracts saying that the customer can be cut off the net without due process. In France the law already says so.
Do you want to be cut off the net without any possibility of due process?