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Sandoval, Greg. "RIAA Drops Lawsuits; ISPs to Battle File Sharing | Digital Media - CNET News." // Technology News - CNET News // . 19 Dec. 2008. Web. 02 May 2011. < __http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10126914-93.html__ >.

**Source 9:**

1) The music industry's highly controversial strategy of suing customers for file sharing has mostly ended.

2) The strategy of suing music fans has long been criticized by artists, consumers, and even some record-label executives.

3) Critics have said it alienates music buyers and more importantly has been ineffectual.

4) But according to most of the data, the lawsuits didn't prevent illegal file sharing from growing. At the same time, the strategy also alienated scores of potential music buyers.

5)The industry has learned that the answer to piracy isn't to intimidate people into obtaining music legally.

6) The recording companies have made music available in ways that actually appeal to consumers.

7) If people don't want to [|pay for music], they can go to MySpace Music, YouTube or iMeem and listen to all the ad-supported streaming songs they want.

8) ..a huge number of digital music fans are willing to pay for songs at iTunes.

9) My music industry sources say that the RIAA will continue to file lawsuits against the most egregious offenders--the person who "downloads 5,000 or 6,000 songs a month is still going to get sued," a source at a major record company told me.

 10) to many music fans, the practice was a loathsome and heavy-handed approach that only served to inspire people to resist efforts to keep them from [|obtaining music]. 11) The truth is that the music industry no longer needs the RIAA to chase after large numbers of file sharers. Sure, music piracy still thrives but is less and less about the mainstream.