I was told to pay money although I did not download the copyright infringement file

Japanese Association for Japanese Music Association "JASRACIt is the National Record Association, commonly known as "RIAA"is. As the main activity on the Internet is to eradicate all music files that are illegally circulated, as we are in court against lawsuits against music copyright infringed by file sharing software etc from one end It is famous.

But at last RIAA started a runaway and opened an unheard-of-breaking online lawsuit injunction site to keep trial without paying even money before being sued. More runaway, copyright infringement fileI have not downloaded itIt was discovered that you are informed to the other party that you downloaded a copyright infringement file, you pay the money if you do not want to be dragged out to the court and you do not file a complaint if you pay even money. It is becoming a problem.

Details are as follows.
First of all, from the startling site that the beginning of the thing, the RIAA opened "I will not complain if you pay even money".

P2P Lawsuits
https://www.p2plawsuits.com/

The details of this site, how it was made, are as follows.

RIAA Online Litigation Injunction Injunction Site. Money solving by the power of money - Underling posting shared daily report

Online discount settlement & amp; avoidance of litigation online even if appealed by MP3 exchange | US RIAA | Internet | My Computer Journal

In other words, if you pay money from p2plawsuits.com you will not trial, you can save time and money. It is clear that you are aiming to aim at opponents who are targeting university students, who can not afford court costs and time.

It is only necessary for the other party to actually infringe the copyright, but it turned out that there was a case in which it was not confirmed whether the other party truly made a copyright infringement. The wrong targeted user is seeking help in the following forum and the letter of the letter actually received from RIAA is also posted.

I have 38 days until the RIAA files suit against me - The Something Awful Forums

Four letters arrive from the RIAA and it is supposed to file a complaint that they will not pay the money within 40 days from 15th August. According to this, it is said that 50 music files were downloaded last Thursday through Friday night, but he said that he received the letter, that evening on the evening of the day it was on the party and so on And the IP address shown in the letter is not from his room, it seems that it was from the library of the university where he is enrolled.

Despite obviously I do not remember, threatening things like this arrived, but I have two choices left to him.

1. Since it is innocent, fighting RIAA at trial
→ However, RIAA has sued lawsuits against unrelated human partners regardless of what they have seen, and even if they are defeated at that trial they continue to trial with further appeals, so it is not known when the event will end. The financial burden and time burden are not common. Employment is also dangerous if you know that a trial is being raised from the RIAA.

2. Pay money from P2P Lawsuits despite being innocent
→ If you pay money, it will not be a trial, but it is the same as admitting a sin that you have not done, it is irresponsible. Moreover, the amount paid is 3000 dollars (about 340,000 yen), which is a considerable burden for college student. However, you do not have to trial.

Since it is clearly wrong, you can choose to ignore it. In that case, the RIAA may not sue. If you do not actually prosecute while saying to the other party that American law is a crime like Japan as well, this time he can sue RIAA this time, but the actions of RIAA so far As far as I see, it seems to almost certainly appeal when I ignore it.

As a realistic choice, I can not help crying and only have to pay money from P2P Lawsuits to RIAA .... Then, RIAA is "I can take money even from an innocent personIt means that there is a danger of allowing further runaway.

In other words, for RIAA, it seems that the reason for making this "P2P Lawsuits" is not only to deter copyright infringement, but also to think that it will be established as a kind of "business". Regardless of whether this copyright infringement is not done or not, the RIAA's new policy of collecting money with the threat of dragging it to the place of trial has been condemned in various places, although the following article is long , It is very easy to understand the circumstances, problems, reactions in each direction are summarized.

Talk about P2P or its neighbor illegal file sharing user is golden tree: RIAA's new settlement program is a new business (1)

In other words, their true purpose to push such a strategy is thought to be elsewhere. By not bringing it to a lawsuit, you can withdraw a large amount of cash from the user without proof of whether or not copyright infringement was truly being done. It seems that RIAA is considering this as a new business, not anti-piracy strategy. You can withdraw hundreds of thousands of yen cash with one email to your ISP. And it seems that there are over 10 million P2P file sharing users in the world. And now RIAA threatens P2P file sharing users through ISP without any legal basis.

Talk about P2P or its neighbor illegal file sharing user is a golden tree: RIAA's new settlement program is a new business (2)

Also, most university students are under the protection of their parents. At least, if your child under protection is likely to be sued by the RIAA, it will try to prevent it anyhow. If you say how your child fights RIAA (apart from whether or not there are students with such guts) you will choose that if you can pay by paying. Also, for the sake of a child, the amount of money that parents can give out will be raised even if it gathers.

At least this is the reason for RIAA targeting college students for these two reasons. One is to utilize the increase of threatening effect by sending it through the university and the other is to use the feeling of thinking of the parent's child. This makes it easier to draw a more prospective settlement.

Talk about P2P or that illegal file sharing user is a golden tree: RIAA's new settlement program is a new business (3)

As I guess, it seems that they probably are not seeking an absolute victory in court. Of course, there is nothing better than winning, but I believe that it aims to plant more fear. In other words, even if you win or lose (especially if you lose) you only have to mess up the life of the defendant.

Stand in court as defendant, and win the RIAA after hardship. But what is left for him and her? That he, she must devote most of his / her money and money to challenge the RIAA. Nevertheless, considering the enormous financial resources of the RIAA, lawyers' corps, legal know-how, etc., considerable costs are required. Almost all they have. However, on the other hand, from the RIAA side it is only a minor part of their overall activities. Even if the defendants win, they have little to gain, they lose trust, time, living and money.

It may be a story of overseas now, so to speak as a fire on the other side, so to speak, JASRAC in Japan can not deny the possibility of doing such a thing in the near future. This method of saying "Do not prove by yourself at the trial place if you are not doing it" by yourself will not be acceptable, as it is not proof whether the other party certainly infringes the copyright.