The Recording Industry Association of America {RIAA} has stopped suing music downloaders and now will resort to another tactic for stopping illegal music swappers, it plans on telling your internet service provider {ISP} to shut down their connections. A deal has been worked out between the two so all the RIAA has to do is send a letter to an ISP and they will shut down that account. This tactic is a lot cheaper than filing lawsuits against millions of people and stops them immediately from uploading anymore content.
I do imagine though with the ability to hide or spoof IP addresses it will not be long before someone is kicked off there ISP for not doing anything wrong and than will file a suit and who knows what then but for now this is how the RIAA is going after illegal music uploaders and downloaders.