RIAA Objects to Jammie Thomas Having Legal Council During Re-trial
There’s been small movements in the Jammie Thomas case, but recently, the US’s first file-sharing case to make it to the US court system and receive a full trial has surged back into the headlines. The reports suggest that the current legal council wants out of the case. When Thomas asked for new [...]
RIAA Sues Even More File-Sharers
Targets 3 more in the New York area alone.
I don’t think anybody really bought into the RIAA’s proclamation last December that it had decided to quit suing suspected file-sharers, and the evidence keeps piling up that it’s for good reason.
For I reported this past March about how it filed a copyright infringement case against [...]
Appeals Court Blocks Webcasting of File-Sharing Trial
Cites 1990 Massachusetts law which says that “no person shall take any photograph, make any recording, or make any broadcast by radio, television, or other means, in the course of or in connection with any proceedings” of the court, but ruling notes the law needs to be amended for the modern age if the justice [...]
SURVEY: Teens Buying and Illegally Downloading Less Music
Suggests shift in how teens listen to music, streaming more music online and listening to satellite radio.
According to a recent survey by The NPD Group, a market research company, teens (13-17yo) acquired 19% less music, both legally and illegally, in 2008 than they did in 2007.
As for legal acquisitions, CD purchases declined by 26% [...]
AT&T Begins Helping RIAA Fight P2P
Insists it won’t ever terminate accounts of accused file-sharers “without a court order,” but does admit warning letters do say it has the right to do so.
Jim Cicconi, a senior executive VP at AT&T, told attendees at a recent digital music conference in Nashville,TN that it has begun warning customers accused of illegally sharing music [...]
RIAA Fires MediaSentry
There are reports surfacing that says that the RIAA has fired a so-called p2p investigator. Ray Beckerman says that they were being sloppy.
The report comes from CNet which cites the Wall Street Journal. MediaSentry is a company the RIAA hired to, among other things, to investigate alleged copyright violations.
The company was brought under [...]
Major Record Label Admits CD Sales is Not a Measure of Success
In the face of another major slump in CD sales, the major record labels say they have other streams of revenue as well.
A report from the New York Times has some interesting comments from the major record labels. Neilson Soundscan reports that CD sales have slumped this year with the top selling album selling [...]
Business As Usual As RIAA Targets ESU in P2P Lawsuit Campaign
The Recording Industry Association has reportedly sent 60 cease and desist letters to East Stroudsburg University.
With the movement to legalize campus file-sharing with a blank tax, you’d think that the campus lawsuit campaign would be winding down. That appears to not be the case according to Pocono Record, a news site in Pennsylvania.
The report [...]
Legal Questions Raised Over MP3 Resale Website
Is it really legal to sell your DRM-free music files?
Here’s the scenario: you have a hard drive full of MP3s you don’t really listen to anymore. The standard response would be to just delete the files. What about the value locked up in those particular digital bits? What about the idea of [...]
RIAA Sued for Price Fixing – 6 Years Later
It has been a little over 6 years since the Recording Industry Association of America settled a case where they were accused for price fixing. The 2002 case probably felt like a victory for consumers, but six years later, the problem of seemingly unfair pricing schemes still seems to exist today
Six years is [...]
