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The US District Court of Arizona has ruled that Jeffrey Howell, a man who used the P2P file-sharing program KaZaA for illegal purposes, should pay a fine of $40,500. What the defendant did was to download 54 tracks from various record companies, and then share them with other users of the software. The Recording Indu... |
3 September 2008
10:49 GMT |
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The Entertainment Software Association is sending word that it is hiring a new general counsel in the person of Kenneth Doroshow, who is a veteran of the Recording Industry Association of America. At the organization, Kenneth served as the head of the litigation department, which sought to go after all those who infr... |
21 August 2008
02:32 GMT |
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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has an interesting method to find and catch potential pirates, turning to the same file-sharing applications that are currently used by them, The Chronicle reports. According to the same source, the organization made a demonstration on how the employees manage to i... |
15 May 2008
10:28 GMT |
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RIAA (the Recording Industry Association of America) filed a new lawsuit against Usenet, accusing it for "enabling and encouraging its customers to reproduce and distribute millions of infringing copies of Plaintiff's valuable copyrighted sound recordings," as Wired noted on its page. RIAA was pretty active thes... |
17 October 2007
05:08 GMT |
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Jammie Thomas, the 30-year-old woman who was accused for distributing pirated music on the web, could receive a $3.6 million fine instead of the $222,000 which she actually received. In case you missed the news, several record companies such as Warner Bros. Records and Sony BMG Music Entertainment, sent Jammie to the... |
11 October 2007
08:15 GMT |
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The Recording Industry Association of America filed a complaint against Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old woman from Minnesota, accusing her of sharing some copyright protected videos on the famous file sharing application Kazaa. Last week, the judge found the woman guilty and she has to pay a $220,000 fine. However, Jamm... |
9 October 2007
17:06 GMT |
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The battle against the users and websites that infringe copyrights continues with a new case in Minnesota after several companies, all of them members of the Recording Industry Association of America, filed a lawsuit against a Kazaa user. As Wired reports, the companies, including Virgin Records, Warner Bros. Records... |
1 October 2007
06:20 GMT |
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Remember the story of the USB thumbdrives hidden in restrooms during the Nine Inch Nails promo tour, which contained un-released (at that time) tracks for the inquisitive fans? Remember how people who found such memory sticks loaded with music have posted the tracks online in a freshly-created community and how RIAA ... |
19 April 2007
04:59 GMT |
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You all know Universal Group, you simply can't say you don't, at least from the beginning of motion pictures. Well, they're in music too, you know? And they're way big! As a matter of fact, Universal Music Group is one of the "4 major" who are responsible for RIAA and the crap RIAA is spreading ar... |
18 April 2007
10:03 GMT |
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I hope you still remember the January MIDEM conference in Cannes, France, where a new media-rights organization called Merlin was announced. Well, even if many (including me) have thought that it had died just after the announced birth, it looks like during the last months they have been rather active and have organi... |
17 April 2007
03:43 GMT |
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Now, I guess everybody knows one or two things about what's happening in the digital music world with Apple finally convincing EMI to put their catalog online in digital, DRM-free format. This is by far one of the most interesting turns the music industry has experienced during the last months and still a lot of... |
16 April 2007
09:43 GMT |
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We've talked a lot about RIAA and their majestic (NOT) crusade against digital music piracy and it's now time to let them be (NOT) and cross the Pacific to China, just to take a look at what real music (and video) piracy actually means.Xinhua News informs readers that "according to the official statistics, ... |
6 April 2007
08:59 GMT |
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From time to time, I guess everyone happens to say something like "OK, I am stupid". It's simply natural, sincere and very-very mentally and especially socially-wise healthy. And these benefic effects double up as you don't get any more idiot and brag about how stupid you are. Well, you see, it looks like R... |
6 April 2007
04:01 GMT |
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Now, it's rather hard to believe what the news feeds brought on my desktop: it looks like EMI has made a deal with Apple and will sell DRM-free music via iTunes and possibly other online stores as well. Let's dissect the content of what I have just written...First, a very uncanny association of two words: E... |
2 April 2007
05:06 GMT |
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Well, I am quite sure that not once have you downloaded from iTunes a song recommended by friends and truly enjoyed it while really thinking of buying the whole album. Now, you see you're paying more than you should: actually you're throwing away the money you've spent in the first instance on buying t... |
30 March 2007
05:47 GMT |
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Yep, a short and sad piece of news for all people who love DJs and the work they've put up, what they have done so far: the popular web location hosting so many music files will go down starting May 1st. What has started back in 2005 and quickly grew to become a very loved and appreciated place where enthusiasts... |
28 March 2007
05:51 GMT |
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Yes, it's one of those days when RIAA and its partners (our side or their side, no matter) simply offer so much info than it's really a shame not to write about such a thing (unless we -editors- would all go for a "radio silence" targeting RIAA).This editorial brings closer and mixes in three of the day... |
27 March 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Well, RIAA haven't quite paid attention to all recommendations people all over the web kept on giving them, especially that of suing dead people or Jesus. Instead, they found again another hobby of theirs: suing children! Now, filing a case against some rebel millionaire child is one thing, but they can't r... |
27 March 2007
03:02 GMT |
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I guess there are few people interested in the music business that don't know who Sony-BMG is. For those who still don't know it, I'll just say that Sony BMG is one of the four major records companies (while the other three are Warner, EMI and Universal) and representatives of these 4 act together unde... |
26 March 2007
11:05 GMT |
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It's cool, the University of Wisconsin has finally got very pissed off on RIAA and shown them the middle finger in a "stop harassing us" manner which has made RIAA think twice before they spoke further more. Shortly, the UW told RIAA to bugger off and cease to cry under the university windows for the "bad wolf" ... |
23 March 2007
13:06 GMT |
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XM and Sirius have closed a deal not a long time ago regarding satellite music broadcast. So good - so far, people have already begun to enjoy this new media, as well as the satellite radio producers have all hurried to release more and more "radiosat" gear.Now it's time for the response as it looks like the cop... |
23 March 2007
04:47 GMT |
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Gizmondo is one bunch of guys I begin to like more and more, especially as I noticed we're on the same side of the barricade as far as the struggle against RIAA is concerned. Today, one of their editors, Adam Frucci, came in with a very cool idea on how we could kick RIAA's a** further more: buying used CDs... |
22 March 2007
06:40 GMT |
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I am sure that those of you who are interested in DRM and the like already know what's on with the Copyright Royalty Board. Basically, they are the ones who regulate how much revenue different broadcasters must pay for delivering musical content.Now, the CRB are not alone and can't act by themselves amidst ... |
20 March 2007
10:05 GMT |
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This year's SXSW (South by Southwest Festival) has brought a very interesting idea, not a solution to the RIAA/DRM problems (at least not yet) but an idea meant to make people think that there may be different ways to solve a problem than what has been tried so far.Shortly (the debate itself was rather short as... |
19 March 2007
12:33 GMT |
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OK, so I promise I will try and quote as little as possible from the most recent RIAA release. "Again RIAA, aren't they bored yet?" might you ask just for me to say they're not bored at all but seemingly more and more interested in topping with honey the crap they're bathing in.The President and the CE... |
19 March 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Yo, Chinese music lovers, I am sorry for you. If you're not sorry for yourselves yet, you will be, unfortunately. Sina.com, one of China's biggest portals running in multiple online fields plans the release of a new platform for online music, downloads and other wireless value-added services (according to S... |
16 March 2007
11:57 GMT |
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Yeah, once more the lovely check-ladies in the company looked back at me and told me that I am not to use the 4-letter words I had in mind for this article. This just isn't fair, I mean... these nasty words are the sole words I can think of using as I read about RIAA's latest bravery in the fierce battle ag... |
15 March 2007
04:43 GMT |
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There's been over a month since Steve Jobs' "Thoughts on music" hit the web like a storm. The open letter talked about the current state of media content, about digital rights management and about Apple's proprietary DRM solution, FairPlay. The CEO pleaded for the abolition of DRM and said it was all i... |
12 March 2007
11:00 GMT |
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I guess everyone who is connected to the music and IT worlds has knowledge (if not even extensive knowledge) about the DRM wars and how much does RIAA suck. I mean, let's face it: I simply can't believe that RIAA is loved throughout the world and especially the US. It's like loving a person who is cons... |
9 March 2007
09:18 GMT |
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The crap around what will internet radio become in the future is far from being over. The Copyright Royalty Board's ruling on Tuesday regarding the new fees for webcasters has reached a much higher level even before it was appealed. To see how serious things are, a new hearing took place in the House of Represen... |
8 March 2007
07:10 GMT |
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Exactly as the subtitle says it, RIAA seem to be unable to quench their thirst for money and especially after the open declaration of war made by Apple Inc. in Steve Jobs' words, they started to understand that their money sources are most likely to become substantially thinner.And we had little time to wait unt... |
5 March 2007
10:27 GMT |
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