Many people will have heard that the RIAA is going to be doing in the USA what they are doing in Canada: not suing individual music copyright infringers, even if copyright law enables them to. Their primary target has always been "enablers" (IE: providers of multi-purpose and predominantly legal technology, communications services, and software), but in the USA at least they have been launching massive lawsuits against everyone from single mothers to dead people.
A techdirt article Big Guns Come Out In Effort To Show RIAA's Lawsuits Are Unconstitutional may clarify why the change in tactics in the USA. It may be that the courts will confirm that the RIAA's lawsuit intimidation tactics are not legal after all.
It is my understanding that Canadian courts are less forgiving of frivolous lawsuits, which may offer another explanation as to why CRIA decided to not collect evidence and submit new lawsuits after they lost their discovery case and appeal back in 2004/2005. It has been my belief thus far that they have been deliberately abusing misunderstandings of these cases for political aims (IE: incorrectly claiming the law didn't provide them the tools to sue).
Now we just need to wake politicians up to the even more dangerous attack against so- called "enablers". Policy makers need to realize that the harm to society of reducing lawful control over communications technology is far greater than the private alleged harm of unlawful infringing uses. They need to realize that legalizing and/or legally protecting DRM, "broadcast flags" and other such things make about as much sense as amputating an arm because of a painful paper-cut.