ISPs and their trade association have refused to block a pair of websites on demands from the music industry. RISA, South Africa’s answer to the RIAA, demanded ISPs block the Russian sites because they sell music for as little as 9 cents per track – or less for full albums.
Earlier in November, South Africa’s recording industry body RiSA took action against the country’s largest BitTorrent and NZB sites. BitFarm and Newshost looked to be in peril but a lawyer experienced in dealing with RiSA stepped up to help them. Now it appears that a negotiated settlement could be on the horizon.
Although many stories about anti-piracy activity seem to come out of the United States, Europe, Canada and Australia, operations are certainly not limited to these countries. Today, news is filtering through that South Africa’s biggest BitTorrent and Usenet NZB sites have been taken down by the recording industry.
