RIAA Discontinues Immunity Program

The music industry’s trade group has dropped a program that offered to spare individuals from being sued by recording companies if they admitted to illegally sharing music online, courts documents show.

The Recording Industry Assn. of America said it no longer deems the program useful because it considers the public educated or aware enough now to know that they could be sued for file sharing. The RIAA added that the number of people stepping forward to participate in the program has slowed “to a trickle.”