Record Labels Sue Spanish P2P Developer for ‘Unfair Competition?’
Unable to win a court case against file-sharers, Promusicae, the Spanish branch of the RIAA, decides to go after the software developer instead.
Pablo Soto, founder and CEO of MP2P Technologies, announced today hat he has been served with an unprecedented lawsuit from Promusicae, the organization that represents the recording industry in Spain.
Promusicae filed a [...]
Demanding the Impossible – RIAA Demands ISPs Fight Piracy
Trying to get the gatekeepers of the internet – mainly the Internet Service Provider – to fight against ‘copyright infringement’ is nothing new. After several countries jumped on board to call on US ISPs to fight copyright infringement.
It seems like getting things like Internet Service Providers has become all the rage for the copyright [...]
Has What.cd Already Been Busted?
One of our users forwarded us this confusing email “from the RIAA” this morning:
From: piracy@riaa.org
Date: November 12, 2007 5:43:09 AM EST
To: ****@gmail.com
Subject: Music Piracy
Reply-To: piracy@riaa.org
Dear registered user of the site What.cd,
We have recently been investigating the activities of the users of the site http://www.what.cd/ and we have found that this site exists for the sole [...]
Tired of students and grandmothers, the RIAA now going after radio
“They’ve gotten 50-some years of free play, now maybe it’s time to pay up.”
No doubt looking for any way it can shore up decreasing revenue amid slumping CD sales, the RIAA and several artists’ groups are nor going after radio broadcasters to collect additional royalties from aired music.
“The creation of music is [...]
Why Last.fm isn’t sweating the RIAA’s royalty hike
Last_fm, the popular custom radio and music network, will press on with expansion plans, despite the threat to internet radio from the record industry lobbyists in the US.
A battle is currently being fought Stateside over how much royalty should be paid for streaming radio. Until the tail end of last week, the future of online [...]
The RIAA’s worst nightmare: computers that understand music
Computers and music have been linked since the earliest days of the mainframe, when giant machines controlled primitive synthesizers. Recently, however, a significant advancement has taken place in the field of computer music with the development of software that can not only transcribe polyphonic music in real time, but can also play back complex harmonies [...]
Ohio University bans P2P
In an open letter to students, the university announces that it will now restrict the use of all “P2P, or file-sharing on the campus computer network”.
Ohio University has currently received the most complaints from the RIAA regarding illegal music downloading to date, having received some 1,287 notices since last September, and averaging 10-15 new ones [...]
Is the RIAA Pulling a Scam on the Music Industry?
There has been an understandable public outcry against the RIAA’s attempts to more than triple the sound recording copyright royalties on Internet radio. (See Save Internet Radio from Corporate Money Grab) One solution proposed by Webcasters is to just not play RIAA-member songs under the assumption that then they don’t have to pay the royalty [...]
NCSU Legal Services Director Helps Students Fight the RIAA
Cites illegal tactics and arbitrary settlement demands as some of the flaws in the RIAA’s lawsuit strategy.
Pam Gerace, the director of Student Legal Services at North Carolina State University, is helping students take on the RIAA and fight back in a struggle with which they would otherwise have few resources at their disposal.
Unlike the [...]
‘Suggestions to College Students Being Targeted by the RIAA’
Recording Industry vs the People have posted some great tips for those college students that have been targeted by the RIAA in their campus file-sharing crackdown.
Ty Rogers and Ray Beckerman of Recording Industry vs the People are New York City-based lawyers who through the Electronic Frontier Foundation have undertaken to represent people in their [...]
