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After around 35,000 lawsuits and 5 years the major record companies have ended their prodigious litigation campaign against music fans who shared songs online without the labels permission. As the recoding industry Assn. of America  or RIAA, shifts  to a less bare-knuckle approach to enforcing its rights. They hope that they will be able to profit from the activity that it cant seem to kill. Since the MP3 was developed major labels have been playing catch up. companies such as Universal music group, Sony, Warner music group, and EMI group. These companies sued the start-ups that were distributing file-sharing software, but then they only saw new ones replace them. These lawsuits were very blunt and they did a lot of damage on the wrong people. The industries hired investigators and they were not able to match the file sharing accounts to the active users. The RIAA ended up suing the account holders, and putting them in the mercy of law firm determined to extract compensation from someone if not the defendants themselves. Now the RIAA is working with New York's attorney general to deter piracy with out threatening families with financial ruin.