Copyright Industry Getting Slaughtered in the Stock Markets
The copyright industry, namely the RIAA and MPAA, have said for years that file-sharing has caused the industry billions of dollars and loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs. ...
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RIAA – FCC Ruling Means ISPs Can Filter Piracy Like Everyone Else
We already noted that there is a lot of confusion surrounding the FCC ruling to "punish" Comcast, but we have just learned that the RIAA has some of ...
Jammie Thomas Case – Support for the RIAA Under the Name ‘Progress and Freedom’
Yesterday, we reported on the MPAA suggesting that "international obligations" allow corporations to sue individuals for copyright infringement without evidence. In the mean time, there is support ...
EFF Files Amicus Brief on Jammie Thomas Trial, Demands Re-Trial
Can you really sue for attempted copyright infringement? The EFF doesn't think so and has filed an amicus brief arguing that the major record labels must prove infringement actually ...
British Top Legal Advisers – Copyright Term Extension is Bad
Many advocates and experts from around the world have had a long and hard fought battle to stop the major copyright industry's push to extend the term of copyright. It's ...
German Courts – P2P Lawsuits Unconstitutional
Many are aware of US-based rights holders trying to apply US laws in other countries. Now there is word that P2P lawsuits in Germany are unconstitutional.
Between the ...
Exclusive: IPFilterX – The New Anti-P2P IPBlocklist on the Web
When file-sharing users think of filtering their P2P experience, they think of something like PeerGuardian. When they think of a filtering list, they typically think of BlueTack. Now, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Has What.cd Already Been Busted?
One of our users forwarded us this confusing email "from the RIAA" this morning:
From: [email protected]
Date: November 12, 2007 5:43:09 AM EST
To: ****@gmail.com
Subject: Music Piracy
Reply-To: [email protected]
Dear registered ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
‘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 ...
Why doesn’t the RIAA talk about the $9 billion USD in ringtone sales?
For all the whining about P2P and file-sharing services, a detail that seems hidden in all the fuss over declining music sales by the RIAA and the International Federation of ...
Why doesn’t the RIAA talk about the $9 billion USD in ringtone sales?
A detail that seems hidden in all the fuss over declining music sales by the RIAA and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), is the fact that people ...
RIAA College Crackdown Round 3
The RIAA announced yesterday that it had sent a third wave of 413 pre-litigation settlement letters to 22 universities across the country.
A new wave of the RIAA's "deterrence program" ...
