RIAA offers to settle with Jammie Thomas-Rasset for $25K

Well, that's one way to make fines for file-sharing look even more arbitrary, astronomical and totally imaginary. The RIAA battled single mom Jammie Thomas-Rasset in court over 24 tracks the woman illegally shared over Kazaa. Despite Thomas-Rasset's protests ... continue

US Chamber of Commerce out to block treaty meant to help the blind

It's a noble plan. A dozen nations meeting in Geneva on Monday to consider adopting the WIPO Treaty for Sharing Accessible Formats of Copyrighted Works for Persons Who are Blind or Have other Reading Disabilities. The proposal that ... continue

The day that radio was killed

Technology didn't kill radio. Satellite radio didn't kill terrestrial radio. But as of today radio stands a very good chance of becoming an ever increasing wasteland to the point that we will see a massive shift away from radio stations ... continue

Play illegal music on cellphone and find it shut down

Word is beginning to trickle out of Japan that the country’s government and music companies are trying to get a pioneering system in place that is designed to stop unauthorized copying of music on ... continue

No Pirate Bay for those bad bad people in Ireland

Not satisfied with just screwing people through pointless idiotic lawsuits the music industry has been trying to get ISPs around the world to block torrent sites – with The Pirate Bay being their principal ... continue

If you think the RIAA sucks check these guys out

There is no doubt that the RIAA deserves all the bad press and flack it gets but on a scale of utter doucebaggery they pale in comparison to a company called Digiprotect. This ... continue

Better to be a murderer or child abductor than pirate music files

Remember the case of Jammie Thomas and the RIAA where Jammie got slapped with a $1.92 million dollar jury judgment against her? Well Jesus Diaz over at Gizmodo did some calculations and found ... continue

The farce of musicians actually getting paid

Name any trade group that claims to represent songwriters and/or musicians and they well all tell you how they are all about making sure that the musicians are getting their fair share of money ... continue

RIAA wins $675,000 in Tenenbaum music sharing case

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) has bankrupted PhD student Joel Tenenbaum after a Jury found him guilty of copyright infringement for downloading and sharing 30 songs over the KaZaA peer-to-peer network. The Judge then ordered ... continue

Lawyer says it’s stupid to expect DRM’d goods to work forever

In some ways you have to admire the audacity and amount of hot air that lawyers for the entertainment industry can expel. Nowhere though is this type of verbal buffoonery more apparent than the ... continue

RIAA chief declares DRM dead

Chief spokesdude for the RIAA Jonathan Lamesauce Lamy has stated DRM is dead, but not before pissing off all the people who have legitimately downloaded music since you could legally do so. Way way back two years ago, ... continue

RIAA smacks down Usenet.com in court

Usenet.com is preparing for what may amount to "hundreds of millions of dollars" in damages after losing a case brought by the RIAA in New York against the internet dinosaur. Ars Technica detailed the laundry list of grievances ... continue