Student Joel Tenenbaum Fined $675,000 For Illegal KaZaA Downloads

PhD student Joel Tenenbaum was fined $675,000 after admitting to illegally downloading and distributing 30 songs using the file-sharing software KaZaA. Tenenbaum's attorney and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson stated that the figure was "bankrupting". Tenenbaum...

Obama Backs RIAA with $150,000 Per Track Punishment

Despite a number of high profile lawsuit losses, the RIAA got some big league support yesterday when the Obama government backed large settlement amounts for music downloads. Backed by two former RIAA lawyers now working for Obama's department of Justice, the Obama gov is...

RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA

the internet police are coming to your ip soon..."RIAA Suggestions for content of ACTA Enforcement - ACTA Thursday, 26 June 2008  These are the...

RIAA pays File Sharer $107,951

That single mother who got sued by the Recortind Industry Association of America has won the battle, getting a rather large payout in the process. Though the RIAA won a few high-profile cases, it looks like the courts are souring on the whole sue-your-customers approach to...

RIAA gets shut-down in a recent case.

Richard Komen summarizes the issues expertly here. This sounds nice and rational to me."A federal district judge has delivered a pretty resounding blow to a theory the RIAA has been using to win verdicts in its copyright-infringement lawsuit campaign. In Atlantic Records v....

Why the RIAA may be afraid of targeting Harvard students

"Earlier this month, the RIAA announced that it had sent off yet another wave of prelitigation settlement letters to college campuses across the US. This time, the recording industry targeted 16 schools, including almost the entire membership of the Ivy League. There was one...

The RIAA vs. the World

"Like others, the fact that I'm making a living at all at music -- unlike the overwhelming majority of musicians ­ is largely attributable to the internet, and specifically to free downloads.[...]Every year, over 100,000 songs are downloaded for free from my website, and...

The begin of the end of the big music publishers

Nine Inch Nails went independent."as of right now Nine Inch Nails is a totally free agent, free of any recording contract with any label. I have been under recording contracts for 18 years and have watched the business radically mutate from one thing to something inherently...

Judge deals blow to RIAA's boilerplate copyright infringement complaints

"In the over 20,000 file-sharing cases filed so far, the RIAA has relied on a simple procedure: scour P2P networks for shared music, file a John Doe lawsuit to learn the identity of the account-holder responsible for the IP address flagged by the RIAA's investigative arm,...

SoundExchange, large music webcasters reach deal to cap royalty fees

"SoundExchange Inc., the group set up by the Recording Industry Association of America to collect royalties for performers and record companies, said it has reached an agreement with the Digital Media Association whose members include large music webcasters, to cap royalty...