The Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) is a trade group that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its membership is comprised mainly of record labels and music distributors. The RIAA is known for being...
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The Recording Industry Association of America (or RIAA) is a trade group that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its membership is comprised mainly of record labels and music distributors. The RIAA is known for being the leading agent for the music industry in pursuing copyright infringement cases.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) , which seems totally incapable of understanding that the Internet has completely and irretrievably remade their business , has ended their campaign of suing impoverished college students for downloading mp3s . Since 2003 the RIAA has sued approximately 35,000 people. Most of these lawsuits ended when their lawyers succeeded in extorting a $4000 settlement out of these kids. The reason they often targeted college students , is not just... Read Full Story
Last.fm, the UK based music community, is said to have handed over data to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of American) listing users with illegal pirated tracks. Read full article and vote. Read Full Story
So far, the RIAA has sued over 18,000 individuals for allegedly sharing music over the Internet. But the industry uses slapdash investigative methods to find its targets, and so innocent people as well as guilty ones can find themselves entangled in an expensive and draining process. One recent victim was a woman who didn't even own a computer. Another lawsuit target was deceased. If Ms. Foster is awarded attorney's fees, it will encourage future innocent victims to stand up for themselves... Read Full Story
NEW YORK - AT&T Inc., the nation's largest Internet service provider, will start sending warnings to its subscribers when music labels and movie studios allege that they are trafficking in pirated material, according to an executive.
The phone company thus joins other major ISPs that either go beyond legal requirements or interpret their duties under the law to mean that they have to forward such notices.
Jim Cicconi, AT&T's top executive in Washington, confirmed this week... Read Full Story
The Internet service providers that have agreed to work with the recording industry to battle illegal file sharing are starting to come forward.
Joe Waz, a senior vice president at Comcast, the nation's second largest ISP, told a gathering of music industry executives that the company has issued 2 million notices on behalf of copyright owners, according to multiple people who were in attendance
Waz made the comments Tuesday while part of a panel at the Leadership Music... Read Full Story
Ahoy there feeble music listeners, have you paid your royalties today? The RIAA is an absurd organization whose sole intent is to steal from the poor to give to the rich. There mission is to protect the copyrights of music artists: and to screw over the consumer. Recently, the RIAA has begun its crusade against the online radio streams and decided that they were not paying enough to have rights to the music they played. Rather than treating radio streams on the revenue they earn, the RIAA... Read Full Story
I've been busily working on finishing my new podcast and will have more to say about it very soon... We'll be launching it on the 23rd so stay tuned.
In the mean time, please visit this funny song from David Pogue about the RIAA and its method of curing the world of music piracy (sung to the tune of the ever popular YMCA song by the Village People ).
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There appears to be a slight ripple of a trend among courts to take a stricter look at the evidence being presented by the RIAA in its crusade against digital downloads, based primarily on the evid ence of user names and IP addresses assembled by their expert consultants, MediaSentry. In the RIAA’s case against Jeff Dangler, filed in the U. S. District Court for the Western District of New York in Rochester, Dangler failed to file a response to the Complaint, and the Clerk entered the... Read Full Story
The RIAA is very underhanded when it comes to lawsuits. If you find yourself being sued you should defiantly take a look at this article below. Before you do you may want to take a look at Part 1 focuses on how they gather information, Part 2 focuses on how they use it and how [...] Read Full Story
The University of Wisconsin has announced it will not cooperate with the RIAA in identifying 15 students suspected of illegally downloading music online.
The RIAA seeks UW's help because the RIAA...
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