RIAA & FEDS EXPAND ANTI-PIRACY PACT

The RIAA and National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center (IPR Center) have announced a long-term agreement that expands and formalizes their partnership on digital anti-piracy efforts.

The expanded partnership will see the RIAA and IPR Center executing strategies from strengthening the digital ecosystem and joint training to consumer education, the enforcement of IP rights laws and the dismantling of online criminal enterprises.

The RIAA will coordinate outreach and information-sharing in the public, private and law-enforcement sectors.

In 2019 the IPR Center developed "Operation Intangibles" to combat transnational piracy impacting U.S. industries. In coordination with the FBI and Homeland Security, it has successfully dismantled multiple criminal organization's cyber-piracy networks.

The music industry has yet to fully recover from the wreckage wrought by peer-to-peer network piracy, which at its peak reduced recorded music revenues in the U.S. by 50 percent.

Said RIAA Chief Content Protection Officer Brad Buckles, “Digital piracy is too big a problem for any one artist, industry or agency to handle on its own. The expanded partnership we have signed today helps solve that problem—strengthening cooperation and coordination between law enforcement and the private sector to protect digital music and the broader creative economy."

We have a message for all you lowlife punks engaged in piracy—YOU’RE GOIN’ DOWN. You can take that to the bank.