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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

Norway: It’s nice to see a country who cares about citizen privacy

It is re-assuring in a point in time where entertainment industry trade groups, like the RIAA, are pressuring governments and ISP by either suing them or helping them write legislation that there are some ... continue

Surprise, the RIAA has a blog and yes it’s boring and biased

When one things of the Recording Industry Association of America, otherwise known among other names as the RIAA, is well known for questionable legal actions and suing old women and single mothers. The last ... continue

Music industry now wants to be paid public performance royalties for ringtones

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is pushing to receive royalties for ringtones played in public. ASCAP claims that ringtones that sounds in public constitutes a public performance, a categorization that is beyond the purchased ... continue

Moby Says “the riaa needs to be disbanded”

Recently, the RIAA won a court case that saw a suburban mother fined for $2,000,000 for downloading a handful of songs off the internet and listening to them. There has been a lot of outrage over the case ... continue

RIAA trial ends in $2m fine

A Minnesota mother of two has been fined $1.92m for "willful copyright infringement" in the illegal sharing of 22 songs. Jammie Thomas-Rasset (pronounced "Jamie"- can they tack on a fine for that?) was found to be responsible for ... continue

Last.fm again denies snitching on us, CBS disses blogs

Sounding vaguely like a bunch of sleazy boyfriends, Last.fm & CBS want us to know that baby, they really, really didn't have anything going on with the RIAA. And all that scrobbling, that was ours and it ... continue

P2P filesharing seen as “fair use”

There are a lot of different arguments used by people brought to court by the RIAA and other entertainment trade groups in order to come out victorious. In the majority of cases they lose ... continue

And we thought the RIAA was a horse’s ass

We all like to pick on the RIAA; quite rightfully, but it looks like they could take a few lessons on arsine behavior from their British counterpart - The Performing Rights Society; otherwise known as PRS ... continue

While Rome burns, Obama Administration spends time and money defending RIAA

The Obama Administration's Department of Justice (DOJ) has intervened on behalf of the RIAA in the file sharing case Sony BMG Music Entertainment v. Tenenbaum. In a 39-page brief, the DOJ argues that a United States Supreme Court ... continue

BREAKING: Google deleting music blogger posts

There is a nervous chill going through the music industry bloggers corner of the larger blogosphere and it has to do with posts of theirs just disappearing. Literally one minute they are there and the next ... continue

This can’t end well but for whom is still an open question

We all know how the Recording Industry Association of America – otherwise known as the RIAA – loves nothing better than suing people who don’t have computers or are single mothers on social assistance in order ... continue

Coda.fm: The RIAA is going to hate this site

New BitTorrent index Coda.fm offers something many BitTorrent sites don't offer: a user friendly, e-commerce like interface. Coda.fm specializes in music only, and indexes torrents, as opposed to hosting the torrent themselves. The front end looks like a ... continue