Music sharing continues to boom
File-swapping software seemed in peril a year ago when the U.S. Supreme Court gave the entertainment industry a legal bullet: Its ruling reopened the door for lawsuits over programs used ...
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RIAA partnership with i-Safe a dangerous step for Internet protection
The RIAA has just joined forces with non-profit agency i-Safe to create a program aimed at deterring intellectual property piracy among teenagers. As part of the agreement, i-Safe will ...
(Scranton, PA) Area woman is sued over downloading
A Scranton woman found herself on the receiving end of a lawsuit when eight major record companies teamed up in civil suit in federal court accusing her of illegally downloading ...
RIAA action day
Have you always wanted to tell Organized Music's RIAA a thing or ten?
Then mark June 23 down because that's the date Defective by Design has slated for its next coordinated ...
Sony Music wants bloggers to promo videos, music
Sony BMG Music Entertainment wants to give bloggers free music and video--sort of.
The music conglomerate is promoting a new site, called Musicbox Video, that showcases videos, artist interviews, behind-the-scenes footage ...
Movie and Record Industry Piracy Figures Incendiary, But Not Fact.
I caught this little item from the Washinton Post today quoting losses from online file sharing.
"The intellectual property industry and law enforcement officials estimate U.S. companies ...
How the Entertainment Lobbies are Destroying Your Rights (Video)
The EFF has put out a hilarious (scary?) new video showing what might happen in the future if the entertainment lobbies are successful. The time to act ...
Music business needs to be more image conscious
Cleaning out the loft I came across an armful of vinyl LPs; had they been CDs, of course, they'd have only been a handful. Their size and weight were striking; ...
RIAA chief says illegal song-sharing ‘contained’
Nearly a year after the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling against online music file-sharing services, the CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America says unauthorized song swapping has ...
The RIAA is Wrong Says Former RIAA Head
Former head of the RIAA, Hillary Rosen, says she regrets the RIAA's decision to sue individual downloaders, noting that it the policy simply ignores the reality of an evolving technological ...
UK RIAA to sue AllofMP3.com
The U.K. music-industry trade organization, the BPI, is to sue popular Russian download site AllofMP3.com, claiming it is operating outside the law and not sharing any of its profits with ...
RIAA vs. MP3 vs. Adam Smith
Great look at the economics of file sharing. Pull quote:
In the RIAA-vs-MP3/Napster/Kazaa/Etc situation, the RIAA represents a small cartel of producers who are currently selling their goods (music CDs) at ...
Schools targeted with anti-piracy message
The Federation Against Software Theft (Fast) is targeting primary and secondary schools for the first time with a campaign to promote the legal use of software.
The initiative aims to promote ...
RIAA: One Month of Torrents is Worth More Than the GDP of France
According to the RIAA's own figures, the math is catastrophic!
In January 2006, there were approximately 2370 music torrents posted. By estimating that each music file is 5 megs, we can ...
Chili peppers “hurt’ and “devestated” by leak of new album
Flea of the Chili peppers has come out with the bands thoughts on the leaking of their new album Stadium Arcadium. While not as aggresive about their copyrights like lets ...
BearShare to Pay $30M to RIAA
BearShare is the latest file sharing network to collapse under RIAA pressure, BearShare has been ordered to pay $30 million dollars to avoid potential copyright infringement lawsuits from the recording ...
Canadian Artists Unite Against the RIAA
The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) has been attempting to turn Canada into an America, where they could get any legislation passed they wish, sue Canadians for filesharing and dictate ...
Russian ‘Legal’ Music Services offer More ‘Bang-for-Buck’
AllofMP3.com is one of the top ‘legal’ download music services in the United Kingdom. AllofMP3 is a semi-legal Russian mp3-download service. They operate with no agreement from the British Phonographic ...
RIAA Profits Nearly $100 Million by Suing P2P Users
As of today, an estimated 18,337 Internet users have had suit filed against them by the RIAA for the alleged distribution of copyrighted materials.
I get these figures from a Janurary ...
Are You Liable If Someone Does Something Illegal On Your WiFi?
For years, whenever the press has written one of their fear-mongering stories about open WiFi, they almost always include some tidbit about how if someone uses your network to do ...
