3 in R.I. charged with online piracy
In February, someone from the recording industry began calling Stephen and Patricia Hereth’s house in Pawtucket, accusing them of violating copyright laws by downloading music and sharing it with other people.
The caller offered to settle the matter for $4,600. “I thought it was a scam, to be honest with you,” Patricia Hereth said yesterday. “I [...]
YouTube.com Stirs Napster Memories in Digital Movie Era
“Yes, the Romanian dance song performance is hilarious … and yes, the armies of tape recording music fans now have space for bootleg videos of concerts and festivals,” said Michael R. Graham, partner with Marshall Gerstein & Borun LLP. “But every performance of a copyrighted work which appears does infringe copyright in the music, lyrics [...]
Embracing File-Sharing Is Essential For (Entertainment) Industry Survival
Downloading media online has exploded throughout the years. Media downloading went from a niche hobby that few engaged in, to one of the largest uses of internet bandwidth. File-sharing started out complicated, but has evolved in to an easy way of obtaining media, even turning in to a completely legitimate business oriented concept. The phenomena [...]
RIAA accused of “reign of terror”
THE ELECTRONIC Frontier Foundation (EFF) has slammed the Recording Industry of America’s legal tactics for fighting pirates and accused it of conducting a “reign of terror” against the defenceless.
Ray Beckerman, a lawyer with the EFF, and the law firm of Vandenberg & Feliu in New Yor,k said that typical tactics being used by the RIAA [...]
RIAA fails in fileshare suit
A US court has dismissed a record industry lawsuit over p2p file sharing, a significant defeat for the industry which has had few setbacks among several thousand attempts to win ‘compensation’ from alleged file sharers.
A federal court in Oklahoma granted the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) permission to withdraw its case against a mother [...]
Guy from the RIAA Chimes In About Lawsuit Against XM Satellite Radio
There was an interesting Q& A Session on Washingtonpost.com this morning about the recording industry’s battle against XM Satellite Radio over its “Inno” handheld recorder. The most interesting comment was when someone who allegedly works at the RIAA chimes in with his opinion about the case.
The session’s pretty straightforward and covers all the [...]
Senate, RIAA and MPAA Target Illegal File Sharing Across Campus Networks
Students sharing music and movies on campus networks may soon face stiffer penalties as the result of a U.S. Senate resolution calling on universities to do more to eliminate illicit file sharing across campus networks.
The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and passed on May 22, demands that colleges and universities “adopt policies and [...]
Two Hampton Roads people accused of music piracy
A Newport News man and an Isle of Wight person accused of illegally downloading and sharing music are two of 76 people sued nationwide by record companies this week.
It’s the latest wave of copyright infringement lawsuits filed by a group of record companies in an ongoing attempt to stop music piracy over the Internet.
William Curling, [...]
Music industry proposes ‘ISP tax’
A music industry coalition has proposed that ISPs and others should pay a licence fee to compensate rights-holders for unlawful file-sharing by their customers. One critic called the plans, which would change copyright laws, “ill-conceived and grasping.”
The group met in London yesterday. It did not represent the entire UK industry – notably, the BPI was [...]
RIAA Case Against Mother Dismissed With Prejudice; Court May Award Attorneys Fees Against RIAA
In Capitol Records v. Foster, in federal court in Oklahoma, a case against a mother — whose only connection to the alleged filesharing was that she was the person who paid for the internet access — has been dismissed with prejudice.
Faced with the mother’s motion for leave to file a summary judgment motion dismissing the [...]
