RIAA is still around, suing MP3skull
Published: April 21, 2015
After maintaining a
relatively low profile,
Napster-era boogeyman the
RIAA is still around and just filed a lawsuit against
MP3Skull.to in Southern Florida.
The site is
quite clear that it doesn't host or share music itself, but links to other sites, meaning that the RIAA is probably hoping to test the long-standing precedent that
linking to copyrighted material is not infringement.
The site has been banned in the UK, because the UK believes that
banning stuff on the internet is a thing. At the same time, now many, many people who hadn't heard of MP3Skull are aware of it, a phenomenon that
Barbra Streisand could probably explain to you.
It's a far cry from when the trade organization asked for
sweeping powers that would allow them to shut down entire websites even those outside the US jurisdiction.