The British music industry had always eschewed American cousins’ penchant for suing illegal downloaders. Now America’s RIAA music org has come around to a European way of thinking. It’s giving up suing the downloaders and will instead enlist ISPs to send warning letters to transgressors.

That’s straight out of the playbook developed in France and the UK this year. While France has favored a three-strikes-and-you’re-out approach, disconnecting law-breakers after repeated warnings, in the UK a memorandum of understanding signed between ISPs, labels and the government follows the same warning tack but stops short of network disconnection. Full details on paidContentUK