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RIAA Case Has No End In Sight
By micro99 at 29 April, 2009, 10:44 am
It appears as if the case of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against Boston University student Joel Tenenbaum will never end as a hearing slated for Thursday has now been postponed.
Earlier this month an appeals court ruled that the hearing could not be broadcast over the internet, a move Tenenbaum’s lawyer and Harvard [...]
Music Pirates May Be Biggest Music Buyers
By micro99 at 27 April, 2009, 4:24 pm
Piracy has been the bane of the music industry’s existence for the last decade or more, but a new study finds that the people they accuse of stealing their good might be their best customers.
According to the study by the BI Norwegian School of Management, people who have used unpaid downloading music systems have gone [...]
Piracy Costing Entertainment Industry $20 Billion Annually
By micro99 at 7 April, 2009, 4:06 pm
This week members of Congress heard statements from entertainment industry executives about the increasing costs of digital piracy which they say costs the industry billions of dollars each year.
According to the New York Times, the Congressional field hearing looked into the issue of digital piracy, noting that much of the networks that distribute the files [...]
Homeland Security Delays Illegal Immigration Raids
By micro99 at 30 March, 2009, 2:24 pm
According to the Washington Post, the Department of Homeland Security has pushed back a number of workplace raids in recent weeks which may mark a change in illegal immigration policy for the department.
An unnamed DHS official told the paper that the department is looking to shift prosecution from workers to the businesses and executives that [...]
Illegal Downloading Links Available on Facebook
By micro99 at 30 March, 2009, 2:23 pm
It appears that two of the world’s most popular online activities may have converged as users of illegal music downloading site Pirate Bay can now share files on Facebook.
Recently Pirate Bay, which is still fighting copyright-related charges in Sweden, made a “Share on Facebook” tab available under the torrents users search for. By clicking on [...]
ISPs say they are not working with RIAA
By micro99 at 26 March, 2009, 3:58 pm
Last year the Recording Industry Association of America announced it would work with internet service providers (ISPs) to cut down on illegal music downloading in lieu of lawsuits. It appears that might now be happening, although the ISPs deny they are assisting.
Reports from various sources this week say that ISPs like AT&T and Comcast began [...]
Has the RIAA filed a new lawsuit?
By micro99 at 13 March, 2009, 4:11 pm
Has the RIAA filed a new lawsuit?
Late last year the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced that it would stop filing lawsuits against alleged music pirates, but a recent lawsuit filed against a Nebraska for allegedly sharing nine songs seems to question that.
However according to Ars Technica, the RIAA’s lawsuit against Shaun Adams is [...]
RIAA Settles Santangelo Lawsuit
By micro99 at 5 March, 2009, 5:37 pm
One of the most well known lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America against an alleged music pirate appears to be over with both sides reaching a tentative deal in recent weeks.
In 2005, the RIAA sued Patti Santangelo for copyright infringement after the association alleged she shared music on the peer-to-peer network Kazaa. But [...]
Last.fm Denies Handing Info to RIAA
By micro99 at 3 March, 2009, 12:58 pm
A report from TechCrunch claims that CBS-owned music website Last.fm turned over user information to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) after the new album from U2 was leaked to the internet prior to its release date. The company has denied the report.
The website says that according to an unnamed source, Last.fm handed over [...]
Online stream of RIAA court case in jeopardy
By micro99 at 25 February, 2009, 5:25 pm
The online streaming of the oral arguments of a federal lawsuit from the Recording Industry Association of America may be in jeopardy as an appeals court has agreed to hear a challenge by the RIAA.
A hearing was scheduled to take place yesterday and was planned to be streamed over the internet, the first broadcast of [...]
