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Copyright group says they must pay an annual license to “use” music or risk legal action.
Just when you though that copyright organizations couldn’t get any crazier, they prove you wrong with a flash of “creativity” that stuns even the most hardened skeptics.
SOCAN, the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers that’s responsible for [...]

Wants to spread around the litigation “love” to previously untouched colleges still teeming with pesky file-sharing music pirates.
Not wanting to leave anybody out, the RIAA has begun a new round of targeted piracy enforcement by sending out some 408 pre-litigation settlement letters to 23 universities nationwide who had previously not received any at all.
This [...]

Wants webcasters to adopt anti-stream ripping technology BEFORE it becomes a “big problem.”
The Digital Freedom Campaign today responded to a statement made by RIAA Senior VP of Govt Relations, Mitch Glazier in a recently noted that stream ripping, an unrelated issue to the current Internet radio royalty rate debates, was [...]

Tries to capitalize on recent news of the new Harry Potter book showing up on BitTorrent.
It looks as though another copyright lobbying organization is trying to take advantage of recent reports of the new Harry Potter book winding up on BitTorrent tracker sites everywhere with MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman lamenting how piracy affects [...]

IP Chairman John Kennedy says the BitTorrent tracker site now hurting the “publishing industry” in addition to record labels, movie, studios, etc.
With all the latest fallout from the new Harry Potter book being leaked on BitTorrent, it comes as no surprise that the IFPI, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, would try to [...]

BiTorrent file-sharing software allows people to share high-quality concert recordings like never before.
There’s an interesting story out of Winnipeg, Canada that follows how the world of Bootlegs has grown up in the digital world. Over are the days of clunky tape-recorders and manually sharing copies that degrade over time as subsequent copies are made for [...]

Advocate General says that ISPs aren’t required to reveal the identity of customers accused of illegally downloading copyrighted music.
The Advocate General to the European Union’s top court, Juliane Kokott, advised the court that ISPs aren’t required to hand over the personal information of customers suspected of illegally downloading music in civil cases.
She said today [...]

Concerned that are “accepted without question in a number of legal discussions” when they are merely assigned to a network interface, never to a person.
University of Chicago Computer Science professor Mike O’Donnel has posted a response on Recording Industry vs The People to a recent ruling that denied the RIAA’s request to force the [...]

Since the site is legal under Russian law, Visa told it must resume accepting its credit and debit card payment transactions.
According to CNews, a Russian “IT-Review” site, the Moscow Arbitrary Court has ruled that Visa’s decision to terminate its contract with Alltunes, MP3sparks, and AllofMP3 was illegal under Russian law because they operate legally [...]

Lets you watch and listen to music on the go, create playlists to embed on blogs and MySpace pages, and even works great on desktop PCs for those who have yet to get an iPhone for themselves.
With the iPhone era now upon us, it was only a matter of time before a streaming music and [...]