File sharing lawsuits are a waste of money, says the American Bar Association

Lawyers organization the American Bar Association has a message for its 400,000 members: File-sharing lawsuits “do not yield significant financial returns,” so stop filing them. That recommendation is buried in a 113-page white paper (PDF) encouraging Congress to draft new anti-piracy legislation like the controversial SOPA and PIPA bills. But while the media industries work toward that legislation, which the American Bar Association (ABA) says should target […]