‘The Sultans of Spin’ – Take the RIAA survey
Jon over at P2Pnet is conducting a survey on the practices of the RIAA and its effect on the music industry, file-sharing, and individuals as a whole.
The survey only takes but a few minutes and I think we all can agree that the results will be interesting for us all to take a look [...]
RIAA “explains” its crackdown on student file-sharing
In an open letter to university students on the Inside Higher Ed website, the RIAA tries to justify its recent crackdown on university students who use P2P and file-sharing services to swap music.
Mitch Bainwol and Cary Sherman, [...]
“To whom it may concern: file-sharing is illegal”
A University of Chicago employee shares a recent letter he received from the Vice President & Chief Information Officer at the University of Chicago.
The recent crackdown by the MPAA and the RIAA on university and college students across the country has made some administrators become more proactive in their efforts to discourage illegal P2P and [...]
Open Letter to Universities Whose Students Have Been Targeted by the RIAA
Ray Beckerman of “Recording Industry vs the People” reaches out to all of the universities that have recently been the target of lawsuits by the RIAA.
This is an historic opportunity for you to take steps to make the RIAA’s litigation campaign more of a level playing field.
The way things are:
Once the RIAA has [...]
“P2P Lawsuits”and “P2P Extortion,” the 2007 yin and yang of the file-sharing debate
The RIAA’s P2P Lawsuits site will kindly take your money to settle your case, whereas the rebutting “P2P Extortion” site shows you how to “stick it to the man”.
P2P Lawsuits is the latest bit of hubris churned out by the execs at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and P2P Extortion is the [...]
AudioFind – 33 Cents a Song AND Legal!
According to a press release that I was recently handed, AudioFind is now one of the newest places to purchase your MP3 files online from. What sets this site apart however, is that it is the first Russian online music store to start legal sales of digital downloads.
They have already begun to offer some [...]
UPDATE: RIAA Applies for a Stay in Lawsuit Against Dead Man, Wants to Refile Against Family Instead.
Apparently death is now again a safe place to escape the long hands of the RIAA, but for their family the lawsuit lives on.
As was previously reported, the RIAA wanted to depose the children of a man accused of copyright infringement. The problem being the man had passed away. Well, the lawsuit is apparently [...]
Grooveshark Q n A – ‘Exactly how will the new service work?’
The people behind Grooveshark, the groundbreaking new P2P music download service, answer the tough questions like what benefits users will get from contributing, what content they can contribute, and what the they think of the RIAA and the IFPI.
Last week I wrote an article describing the upcoming start of a revolutionary new P2P music [...]
PIC: RIAA sues an Iguana for using BitTorrent?
Another cool BitTorrent tracker related comic, this one brought to you courtesy of comic strip artist Bill Amend.
“Mountain Rage,” a member of the forums here at ZeroPaid,was kind enough to give me a heads up on this cool new BitTorrent related comic that recently appeared in a local publication.
The work is a part [...]
Do delays in TV programming cause piracy?
A new Australian study says “huge delays” in airing overseas TV programming locally are to blame for an increase in piracy in the Land Down Under.
The UK’s Sky TV blunder back in 2004, where a delay in airing it in the United States by some 3 months led to its widespread distribution over P2P [...]
