riaa

(frankieleon)

People Are Actually Buying Music Again
By Chris Morran on March 6, 2012 1:30 PM   60 Comments
Reports of the music industry's death may be premature. According to the results of a new study, not only are more people buying music, but some are doing so after hearing the tunes for free on the Internet. More »

RIAA On Illegal Dexter Downloads: "It Wasn't Us"
By Chris Morran on December 21, 2011 12:32 PM   65 Comments
Earlier this week, we told you about how the torrent freaks at TorrentFreak claimed to have discovered that some people at anti-piracy stalwart the Recording Industry Association of America had been illegally using BitTorrent to download copyrighted material, including five full seasons of Showtime hit Dexter. RIAA has since come out with an explanation, one that sounds exactly like the defense used by the very people it has pushed to have prosecuted — "it wasn't us." More »

(TorrentFreak.com)

Report: Someone At The RIAA Downloaded $9 Million Worth Of Pirated Dexter Episodes
By Chris Morran on December 20, 2011 3:15 PM   57 Comments
The hallowed halls of the Recording Industry Association of America, where all music is bought at full price and never shared, lest people face violations of up to $150,000 per pirated item, has reportedly been infiltrated by ne'er-do-wells who think they can BitTorrent copyrighted material at work and not be caught. More »

(matneym)

Appeals Court Rules $675,000 File-Sharing Judgment Is Constitutional After All
By Phil Villarreal on September 19, 2011 9:00 AM   82 Comments
Last year, a Boston college student caught a break when a judge reduced an earlier file-sharing judgment against him from $675,000 to $67,500, calling the earlier figure unconstitutional. Now a federal appeals court has wiped that relief away by deciding the Constitution is cool after all with the $675,000 fee and has reinstated the earlier judgment. More »

(afagen)

Tennessee Lawmakers Pass Bill Making It A Crime To Share Your Netflix Password
By Chris Morran on June 1, 2011 4:15 PM   106 Comments
If you've ever let a friend or family member know your password for subscription services like Netflix or Rhapsody so they can watch a movie or listen to a song, we hope you don't live in Tennessee, where state legislators have passed a bill making it a crime. More »

(ninjapoodles)

California Law Would Allow Raids Of Suspected Piracy Facilities Without Warrants
By Phil Villarreal on May 19, 2011 11:15 AM   110 Comments
If anti-piracy California legislation becomes law, authorities will be able to enter facilities suspected of pirating movie and music discs and seize equipment without first receiving warrants. More »

LimeWire To Pay $105 Million To Record Labels
By Chris Morran on May 13, 2011 12:15 PM   38 Comments
Last October, a federal court shut down peer-to-peer file-sharing service LimeWire. Yesterday, the defunct company agreed to fork over $105 million to to settle a copyright infringement suit brought by 13 record labels. More »

(emilybean)

Jury Slaps File Sharer With $1.5 Million Penalty Over 24 Songs
By Chris Morran on November 4, 2010 3:27 PM   137 Comments
The third time was not the charm for Jamie Thomas-Rasset, who has spent the last several years wrapped up legal wranglings with the Recording Industry Association of America over 24 songs she downloaded through Kazaa back when people still used Kazaa. The latest development — a jury in her third trial has found her liable for $1.5 million ($62,500/song) in damages to Capitol Records. More »

(adamjtaylor)

Federal Court Shuts Down LimeWire With Permanent Injunction
By Laura Northrup on October 26, 2010 11:45 PM   105 Comments
LimeWire, the Gnutella-based peer-to-peer file-sharing service, is no more. Major record labels, also known as file-sharers' archnemesis the RIAA, obtained an injunction from a U.S. District Court judge in New York City that stops Limewire from distributing their software or facilitating any file-sharing. More »

Judge Slashes RIAA's $675,000 File Sharing Award To $67,500
By Carey Alexander on July 10, 2010 5:45 PM   98 Comments
A federal judge yesterday bench slapped the Recording Industry of America, calling a jury's $675,000 verdict against file sharer Joel Tenenbaum both eye-popping and unconstitutional. The judge struck a strikingly populist tone in reducing the verdict to $67,500, arguing that the same legal reasoning that protects large corporations from excessive punitive damages also protects "ordinary people" like Tenenbaum. More »

4 Years And 2 Trials Later, The $1.92 Million RIAA Case Continues
By Meg Marco on June 22, 2010 1:45 PM   86 Comments
Remember Jammie Thomas-Rasset? She was accused of sharing 24 songs on Kazaa in 2006. Two trials and four years later, the case still isn't over. They're now trying to avoid a third trial. More »

Like Everything Else Copyright Problems Are Simpler On TV
By Meg Marco on June 9, 2010 12:20 PM   92 Comments
In TV Land, where murders are solved and prosecuted in an hour and family issues are wrapped up in a cool 30 minutes there is a new problem being simplified — copyright infringement. Despite being brought to us by Rupert Murdoch, Fox's Glee is full of depictions of behavior that News Corp supposedly objects too. More »

Pirate Bay Spreads Word About '$675K Mix Tape Tribute To Nabbed Downloader
By Phil Villarreal on August 17, 2009 1:45 PM   180 Comments

—>Remember Joel Tenenbaum, the guy who was busted for downloading 30 songs and ordered to pay $675,000 to the Recording Industry of America?  More »

30 Songs? That'll Be $675,000
By Carey Alexander on August 1, 2009 6:00 PM   129 Comments

—>A Boston jury yesterday ruled that file sharer Joel Tenenbaum would have to pay the Recording Industry of America $675,000 for sharing 30 copyrighted songs. The hefty award was all the more surprising because Tenenbaum was represented by a crack team of legal eagles from Harvard's law school. The trial didn't unfold nearly the way they planned...  More »

ASCAP Wants Royalties On Ringtones
By Chris Walters on July 3, 2009 1:37 PM   41 Comments

—>Not content to let the RIAA get all the recent publicity for stupid lawsuits, ASCAP has sued AT&T over sales of ringtones, saying each time a ringtone plays it's a public performance and royalties should be paid. Luckily (?) for consumers, ASCAP wants AT&T, not individuals, to pay—although we wonder what they'll say when you take a track from your own library and make a ringtone out of it.   More »

Good Day For Bad Guys: Court Says 'Pirate' Jammie Thomas-Rasset Must Pay RIAA $1.92 Mill
By Phil Villarreal on June 19, 2009 2:23 PM   181 Comments

—>The long, sad saga of lawsuit-bedeviled MP3-ripper Jammie Thomas-Rasset reached a harrowing twist Thursday when Minneapolis federal court found her guilty of willful copyright infringement for sharing more than 1,700 songs. The judge says she owes the RIAA $1.92 million.  More »

Is Last.fm Sharing User Data With The RIAA?
By Carey Alexander on February 22, 2009 11:00 PM   49 Comments

—>TechCrunch has published a damning rumor accusing the social music site Last.fm of helping the RIAA find users who downloaded leaked copies of U2's new album. Relying on a tip, TechCrunch claims that the Last.fm, a subsidiary of CBS, handed over a "giant dump of user data to track down people who are scrobbling unreleased tracks."  More »

Apple: Give Us Money And We'll Remove DRM From Your Music
By Meg Marco on January 7, 2009 4:51 PM   212 Comments

—>Apple has dropped DRM from iTunes — and is offering to remove their DRM from music you already bought for the low, low fee of $0.30 per song.   More »

RIAA To Stop Suing File Sharers
By Chris Walters on December 19, 2008 7:51 PM   89 Comments

—>The Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica are reporting that the RIAA has announced a fairly dramatic change in its strategy to fight piracy.   More »

Judge Tosses Out $222,000 Verdict Against Mom Accused Of File Sharing
By Meg Marco on September 25, 2008 7:49 PM   54 Comments

—>The only jury verdict against a file-sharer has been thrown out by U.S. District Judge Michael Davis of Duluth, Minnesota, who declared a mistrial because he had committed "manifest error of the law" by instructing the jury that "that the recording industry did not have to prove anybody downloaded the songs from Thomas' open Kazaa share folder."  More »

1
2
3
4
5
6