Joins RIAA and MPAA in blaming China’s Baidu, Canada’s IsoHunt, Ukraine’s mp3fiesta, Germany’s RapidShare, Luxembourg’s RMX4U.com and Sweden’s The Pirate Bay for being "overwhelmingly used...for the global ...
Music industry says that now this "major hurdle" has been cleared it can finally reform its outdated business model and fully "transition" to the "online music business."
The RIAA scored a ...
During an event on Capitol Hill, the AFL-CIO hailed the radio tax as fair pay for a hard days work.
The event also drew interest from politicians at the ...
If you thought things wouldn't get much more nightmarish after a court affirmed the RIAAs legal strategy, you'd be in for a shock. While discussing a possible ...
In a crushing blow to internet rights, a court has sided with the Recording Industry Association of America's legal strategy to unmask people's online identities.
A new court recently ...
RIAA, IFPI, and the BPI line up to praise passage of the Digital Economy Bill, which includes Internet disconnection, website filtering, and a virtual ban on public access WI-Fi, hoping ...
Says that it expects to reclaim all revenues lost since 1999 peak sometime in the next decade, and that the majority of revenue in the new business model will likely ...
RIAA CEO Mitch Bainwol makes the extraordinary leap in thought by comparing hacker attempts to steal source code and spy on the gMail accounts of human rights activists to the ...
RIAA and MPAA quick to "welcome" news of another story chronicling the "abuse of P2P technology," and emphasizes the "serious threat" it poses to both consumers as well as copyright ...
The IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance) is demanding that Canada be put on the Special 301 priority watchlist. Of course, as with how Canada ended up on the priority ...
Convicted file-sharer argues that actual damages caused by illegally downloading 30 songs on KaZaA was $21, that being 70 cents for each song record labels would have received if he ...
ACTA has been called many things over the years since it was first leaked online, but an all around failure was certainly not one of them until until the last ...
After having offered to settle the case with Jammie Thomas for as little as $25,000, down from the $1.92 million original verdict, and from the most recent $54,000 judgment reduction ...
Files brief with FCC asking it not to adopt strict net neutrality rules that would prevent ISPs from having the "flexibility" to implement anti-piracy measures to deter illegal file-sharing.
Late last ...
The Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF) had some choice words expressed by a study on DMCA notices received by Google. While the posting was very pointed, the authors of ...
We wrap things up with the last third of 2009. Part one. Part 2.
September
September started off with the continuation of the Jammie Thomas trial where ...
We continue with our 2009 year in review with part two of our three part review. Part one of three.
May
May started off with several stories pretty much ...
2008 was an interesting year in file-sharing and 2009 didn't necessarily disappoint. There was plenty of ways to look at it, but there is one way one can look ...
With a push by the content industry to put in place a global three strikes law or worse, ZeroPaid wants to know, have you been falsely accused of copyright infringement?
DMCA ...
Will argue a "full technological substitute" to P2P didn't exist until 2007 when DRM was removed from digital music offerings, well after the time frame the judge in the case ...
