The wall street journal is reporting that the RIAA is planning to give up on massive lawsuits and instead work with ISP's to help stem piracy. From the article:

The Recording Industry Association of America said it plans to try an approach that relies on the cooperation of Internet-service providers. The trade group said it has hashed out preliminary agreements with major ISPs under which it will send an email to the provider when it finds a provider's customers making music available online for others to take.
Depending on the agreement, the ISP will either forward the note to customers, or alert customers that they appear to be uploading music illegally, and ask them to stop. If the customers continue the file-sharing, they will get one or two more emails, perhaps accompanied by slower service from the provider. Finally, the ISP may cut off their access altogether.

Well, I guess this means they will stop suing the dead."

Several news outlets are reporting that an Australian lawyer just served legal papers to a couple via Facebook, the social network, by citing it as  their last known address.  This was deemed legal by the courts and sets a scary precedent, many of us have multiple accounts on social networks, most of which we never bother to check.  Now that this has happened in Austrailia it could quickly and easily spread to other countries.

If this couple had not checked their facebook status, they could have stood to be in contempt of court and loose their home! 

From the article:

Courts usually leave legal documents at a defendant's last known address or somewhere they know family members are.

Mr Moore said the Facebook option was a novel way of serving documents and probably an effective option of bringing court action to someone's attention.

"I suspect it is a first and can't see why it can't be followed here," he said.