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| | Recording Industry Association of America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Hilary Rosen, the RIAA's president and chief executive officer from 1988 to 2003, was an outspoken critic of peer to peer file sharing, and under her direction, the RIAA waged an aggressive legal campaign trying to halt the practice. | | | The RIAA claims this procedure was sanctioned by the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, but the appeals court ruled that the DMCA regulation applies only to data actually hosted by an Internet service provider, rather than data on a customer's computer. | | | The RIAA's legal campaign experienced a severe setback in December of 2003, when a federal appeals court overturned a lower court order requiring Verizon to disclose the identities of file-sharing customers based on a simple one-page subpoena. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America
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| | RIAA wins battle to ID Kazaa user CNET News.com |
| | The dispute is not about whether the RIAA will be able to force Verizon to reveal the identity of a suspected copyright infringer, but about what legal mechanism copyright holders may use. | | | The RIAA would prefer to rely on the DMCA's turbocharged procedures because they are cheaper and faster than other methods, but Verizon and civil liberties groups have said the DMCA does not apply and that it does not adequately protect privacy. | | | At issue in the RIAA's request is section 512 of the DMCA, which permits a copyright owner to send a subpoena ordering a "service provider" to turn over information about a subscriber. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1023-981449.html
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| | RIAA sued under gang laws CNET News.com |
| | A Washington, D.C., court ruled in December that the RIAA's initial legal process for subpoenaing ISP subscriber identities before filing lawsuits was illegal. | | | One of the hundreds of people the RIAA accused of copyright infringement countersues, pegging the record-label group with extortion and violations of the federal antiracketeering act. | | | Through her attorneys, Michele Scimeca contends that by suing file-swappers for copyright infringement, and then offering to settle instead of pursuing a case where liability could reach into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, the RIAA is violating the same laws that are more typically applied to gangsters and organized crime. |
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http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5161209.html
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| | EFF: How Not To Get Sued by the RIAA for File-sharing |
| | The RIAA appears to be targeting subpoenas at users who allow their computers to be "Supernodes" on the FastTrack P2P System (used, for instance, by KaZaA and Morpheus). | | | The RIAA has stated that it will choose who to sue by using software that scans users' publicly available P2P directories and then identifies the ISP of each user. | | | Then, using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the RIAA will subpoena the ISP for each user's name, address, and other personal information in order to sue that user. |
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http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/howto-notgetsued.php
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| | Labels aim big guns at small file swappers Tech News on ZDNet |
| | In one case, a judge ruled in April that the makers of Grokster and Morpheus aren't liable for copyright infringing occurring as a result of people using their peer-to-peer software, leaving the labels little choice but to go after individual file swappers. | | | Copyright attorney Mark Radcliffe said the decision to follow up on the legal threats isn't surprising, but that the RIAA is going to have to balance its pursuit of illegal traders with the possibility of alienating consumers. | | | She also worries that other copyright holders might follow the RIAA's lead, putting ISPs in the middle of the copyright debate and forcing them to spend time and money processing thousands of requests to identify subscribers who haven't been proven guilty of anything. |
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-1020876.html
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| | ISPs Ignore RIAA's New P2P Ploy |
| | She noted that the RIAA has not said whether it will appeal the Dec. 19 decision to the Supreme Court and that the music trade group is still litigating the authority of the DMCA subpoena in other jurisdictions. | | | The RIAA aknowledged that there is no law requiring the ISPs to send the notification letters. | | | Since a large of percentage of music downloading is done by teenagers, the RIAA hoped the notifications, which were to be sent to the account holders, might tip off parents as to their children's possible copyright infringements. |
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http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3300211
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| | Shirky: The RIAA Succeeds Where the Cypherpunks Failed |
| | And the second effect, of course, is the long-predicted and oft-delayed spread of encryption. | | | The Cypherpunk fantasy of a culture that routinely hides both legal and illegal activities from the state has been defeated by a giant distributed veto. | | | In contrast to the Cypherpunks "eat your peas" approach, touting encryption as a first-order service users should work to embrace, encryption is now becoming a background feature of collaborative workspaces. |
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/riaa_encryption.html
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| | CNN.com - 261 music file swappers sued; amnesty program unveiled - Jan. 23, 2004 |
| | The group cautioned that RIAA doesn't represent all music copyright owners and couldn't ensure that people admitting guilt through the amnesty program wouldn't be sued by others claiming copyright infringement. | | | Cary Sherman, president of the RIAA, said civil lawsuits filed were against "major offenders" who made available an average of 1,000 copyrighted song files. | | | The RIAA said it will not sue users who sign and have notarized a Clean Slate Program affidavit. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/09/08/music.downloading
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| | Geek.com Geek News - RIAA: Repent and be forgiven |
| | The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is expected to announce an amnesty plan for repentant file swappers of illegal copyright material. | | | In return the user would not be sued by the RIAA for copyright infringement. | | | In order to participate in the amnesty program a user would have to complete an official notarized form promising to stop utilizing peer to peer networks to obtain and distribute copyrighted material. |
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http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Sep/gee20030908021635.htm
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| | Wired News: RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC |
| | For its part, the RIAA is still trying to get a copy of its revised amendment -- that it would not provide a copy of -- included in the anti-terrorism bill called the USA Act. | | | RIAA-drafted amendment according to a draft obtained by Wired News would immunize all copyright holders -- including the movie and e-book industry -- for any data losses caused by their hacking efforts or other computer intrusions "that are reasonably intended to impede or prevent" electronic piracy. | | | If the current version of the USA Act becomes law, the RIAA believes, it could outlaw attempts by copyright holders to break into and disable pirate FTP or websites or peer-to-peer networks. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,47552,00.html
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| | Slyck News - RIAA Sues the Dead |
| | Similarly, the RIAA sued New Hampshire resident Renee Elderd for copyright infringement. | | | While sharing information over a P2P network, there is no direct way for the RIAA to obtain your personal information. | | | Under the guidelines of a "John Doe" lawsuit, the RIAA sues your IP address. |
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http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=653
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| | Law Offices of Charles Lee Mudd Jr. |
| | Please be aware that as of April 2005 the RIAA continues to pursue individuals who file share illegally or who appear to file share illegally. | | | Above all, we highly recommend you consult an attorney if you believe you may be involved at all in the RIAA Legal Initiative. | | | This does not have much significance at this juncture because the RIAA abandoned the DMCA approach to litigation some time ago (see RIAA Legal Initiative: Subpoena). |
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http://www.muddlawoffices.com/laws/RIAA/RIAA.htm
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| | MIT Names Student As Alleged Infringer |
| | MIT attorneys have decided the Institute is legally compelled to name Prisnel to the RIAA as the “alleged infringer,” Bruce said, despite Prisnel’s documentation that he does not own a computer and was out of the country for the months surrounding the alleged infringement. | | | Prisnel says he has never owned a computer in the United States, a fact to which 20 other students signed a statement attesting on his behalf. | | | And, Prisnel wrote to DiVincenzo, “I have never used or been affiliated with the user name ‘crazyface@KaZaA,’” which was identified by the record industry association, known as the RIAA, as the KaZaA account used. |
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http://www-tech.mit.edu/V123/N38/38riaa.38n.html
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| | BBspot - RIAA Wants Background Checks on CD-RW Buyers |
| | Licenses could be obtained by enrollment at a local RIAA Education Camp where the horrors of copyright violation would be instilled with the use of electro-shock therapy. | | | There are uses for CD-RW drives that don't violate RIAA copyrights like burning multiple copies of Microsoft Office for friends and neighbors," said Matthew Sodor an opponent of the legislation. | | | Washington DC - The RIAA is lobbying for vendors of CD-RW drives to conduct background checks and require a 3 day waiting period before the drive can be sold. |
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http://www.bbspot.com/news/2001/10/riaa.html
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| | USATODAY.com - Music industry suits hit obstacles |
| | But a federal court ruled ISPs no longer have to automatically provide that information — and that the RIAA has to make a case before a judge to get the name. | | | The RIAA says it will continue its legal campaign and file more lawsuits next month. | | | A Dutch court ruled last week in favor of leading download software program, Kazaa, saying its owners aren't liable for the actions of its users. |
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/2003-12-19-riaa-loses-court_x.htm
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| | Recording Industry Association of America |
| | The RIAA expects to use the data it collects as the basis for filing what could ultimately be thousands of lawsuits charging individual peer-to-peer music distributors with copyright infringement. | | | The RIAA can then serve a subpoena on the ISP requesting the name and address of the individual whose account was being used to distribute copyrighted music. | | | The GMA supports the RIAA’s efforts to use the court system to enforce the intellectual property rights of the creative community, but also calls upon people of faith to consider that this is not just a legal issue, but also a matter of morality.” |
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http://www.riaa.com/news/newsletter/062503.asp
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| | RIAA: 'Turn Off File Uploads or Face Music' |
| | On a conference call Wednesday, RIAA president Cary Sherman said the group would begin collecting evidence against users who share "substantial" amounts of copyrighted digital music and warned that thousands of lawsuits seeking monetary damages could be filed within eight to 10 week. | | | With the Verizon ruling in hand, it's a safe bet the RIAA's lawyers will be issuing subpoenas to ISPs around the country to locate individual copyright infringers before filing lawsuits. | | | In what amounted to a serious blow to the RIAA's anti-piracy offensive, U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Wilson argued Grokster and Morpheus could not control how people use their software, which could also have legitimate applications. |
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/2227641
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| | EFF: RIAA Subpoena Database Query Tool |
| | We have disabled the Subpoena database, since RIAA is no longer using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to subpoena ISPs for identities of alleged filesharers. | | | Instead, the RIAA-member record labels are filing "Doe" lawsuits against unnamed individuals and then issuing subpoenas to ISPs as part of the discovery process in those cases. |
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| | RIAA's evil subpoena plan takes effect |
| | THE RIAA, in yet another bid to cripple the wallets of anyone sharing mp3 files over p2p networks, is now doing as it promised it would: forcing ISPs to get harsh on p2p users. | | | The board has issued subpoenas to ISPs in the US which will force the ISPs to identify any customers who are using p2p networks, such as Kazaa or Grokster. | | | Apparently, 75 subpoenas are being granted every day, and the RIAA has already issued a stonking 871 subpoenas. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10588
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| | G4 - Feature - RIAA Hit List |
| | The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has now issued thousands of subpoenas to Internet service providers across the United States, trying to get the names of people still offering music on file-sharing networks such as KaZaA and Grokster. | | | Jordan settled his case by paying $12,000 to the RIAA. | | | The recording industry has launched a sweeping effort to identify and shut down individual song swappers, making good on recent threats to expand its legal battle against copyright theft. |
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http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/44735/RIAA_Hit_List.html
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| | RIAA sues the dead The Register |
| | Chianumba said that she had sent a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company lawyers in response to an initial warning letter, over a week before the suit was filed. | | | In 2003 the RIAA sued a twelve year-old girl for copyright infringement. | | | RIAA punishing Navy cadets because it can - Letters |
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/05/riaa_sues_the_dead
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| | Subpoena Defense Alliance |
| | In October of 2004, the RIAA asked a Pennsylvania district court to issue subpoenas to ISPs for the names and addresses of people they suspect of infringement. | | | The piracy of copyrighted material is illegal and should not be condoned. | | | The appeals court ruling, made Dec. 19 of 2003, means that instead of serving "form" subpoenas on Internet service providers (ISPs), the recording industry must now seek identities by filing civil lawsuits against "John Doe" defendants, based on their Internet addresses, then work under the supervision of a court to learn their names. |
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| | EFF: RIAA v. The People |
| | In July 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced it would begin gathering evidence that will be used to sue individuals who use file-sharing software. | | | Order Granting Request for Subpoena [PDF 139k] - The Philadelphia court orders that ISPs serve this notice on their users who have been sued as John Does to let them know and give them the opportunity to challenge the case before their names are revealed. | | | Form of Doe Settlement Agreement [PDF] - The document that Does targeted by the RIAA are being asked to sign. |
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http://www.eff.org/IP/P2P/riaa-v-thepeople.php
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| | Yahoo forces RIAA staff cutbacks… - Blog Maverick - www.blogmaverick.com _ |
| | It might be an interesting argument to make in court, but someone would actually have to go to court instead of settle and I don't think the RIAA is picking on anyone with pockets deep enough to actually litigate. | | | The question is, will they move the money they are currently spending on court cases and filing suit, towards promoting the new subscription services that are available. | | | I think you're right, the cheaper it is to download music legally, the less RIAA will be able to bring these huge cases against individuals. |
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http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000270043583
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| | EFF: RIAA Petition |
| | In signing this petition, we formally request that the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), as representatives of the public interest, be included in any upcoming hearings regarding the proper scope of copyright enforcement in the digital age. | | | Rather than working to create a rational, legal means by which its customers can take advantage of file-sharing technology and pay a fair price for the music they love, it has chosen to sue people like | | | Copyright law shouldn't make criminals out of 60 million Americans, and it's time for a change. |
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| | ChewPlastic.com |
| | RIAA finally "admits defeat" and agrees to enter the agreement, after judge is not too keen on allowing the RIAA to once again open my settlement up (pdf) | | | On December 19, Cary Sherman of the RIAA claims that the Verizon Appeals Court decision will only make it impossible for the RIAA to offer settlements to copyright infringers. | | | : RIAA's claims that their high priced lawyers were tricked |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Copyright |
| | Copyrights are generally enforced by the owner in a civil law court, but there are also criminal infringement statutes. | | | Thus far however, these cases have usually been settled outside of court, with demands of payment of several thousand dollars accompanied by nothing more than a threat to sue the file sharer, thus such cases do not even make it to civil law courts in reality. | | | Criminal sanctions are generally aimed at serious counterfeiting activity, but may now become more commonplace as the copyright collectives like the RIAA are more and more targeting the file sharing home Internet user. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/C/CO/COP/Copyright
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| | Slashdot RIAA vs The Economy |
| | Stealing a physical item and copyright infringment are not the same (no matter how much the RIAA would like you to believe). | | | That fee gets you access to the system, and software that allows you to set up playlists, etc. that the RIAA can use the data from to aggrgeate stats on most popular tunes played and burned (with respect for individual privacy, of course). | | | After the 1937 Marijuana Tax law, new DuPont "plastic fibers," under license since 1936 from the German company I.G. Farben (patent surrenders were part of Germany's World War I reparation payments to America), replaced natural hempen fibers. |
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http://www.slashdot.org/articles/03/05/20/2135207.shtml?tid=98&tid=99
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| | RIAA sues 261 for sharing..... : LA IMC |
| | Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere. | | | The Recording Industry Association of America said it has filed 261 lawsuits against alleged file swappers Monday, charging the computer users with "egregious" copyright infringement potentially worth millions of dollars. | | | Check here to see if your username or IP address is on one of the subpoenas filed with the D.C. District Court |
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http://la.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/81790.php
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| | RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes |
| | Which makes it all the more curious why the RIAA is following it step by step. | | | For some inexplicable reason, they seem compelled to follow through until the final scene, perhaps unaware that there's been a rewrite in the ending over the last 90 years. | | | Once you own all of the rights, you have to find a way to make competing prohibitively expensive. |
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http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/2003/mistakes.html
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| | LA Weekly: News: Music Industry Puts Troops in the Streets |
| | Contacted for this article, the Southern California branch of the American Civil Liberties Union said it needed more information on the practices to know if specific civil liberties were at risk. | | | A champion of copyright "fair use," the EFF says Buckles could bring a more balanced approach to the RIAA’s anti-piracy efforts. | | | IV — Musica de los 70’s y 80’s, are illegal, but he thought better of arguing the point. |
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http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/07/news-sullivan.php
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| | News about the RIAA, MP3 files, music file sharing, and the DMCA |
| | RIAA continues to sue its best customers; takes Prohibition approach to downloading | | | DMCA law remains in place, criminalizing millions for making harmless copies of tunes | | | Digital Millennium Copyright Act, designed to protect intellectual property, has created troublesome lawsuits |
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http://www.riaaheadlines.com
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| | RIAA sued for amnesty programme |
| | The RIAA said it won't take people to court who sign a pledge not to share music over the Interweb, but according to the newspaper, Clarke's lawyer says that gives no protection to people against being sued by anyone else. | | | We don't approve of copyright infringement here at the INQ having suffered from our own work being pirated several times. | | | For example, if someone signs the RIAA pledge, Sony or any of the other big music companies might launch a claim against her or him. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11478
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| | RIAA sues Napster |
| | The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed suit yesterday against MP3 community software maker Napster for copyright infringment. | | | The suit, filed in US District Court, Northern District of California, has been long threatened by the RIAA who feel the product facilitates the growth of a black market for illegal copies of digital music. | | | The RIAA suit against Diamond's Rio player was thrown out of California court earlier this year on roughly the same premise. |
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http://www.mp3newswire.net/stories/napster.html
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| | RIAA will take 2191.78 years to sue everyone |
| | The RIAA plans to sue thousands of file sharers. | | | RIAA will take 2191.78 years to sue everyone | | | She said: "I pulled out my calculator to see just how long it would take the RIAA to sue all 60 million P2P music file traders at a rate of 75 a day. |
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http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10733
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| | Boston.com / Business / Recording industry withdraws suit |
| | Beeler complained to the RIAA, demanding an apology and "dismissal with prejudice" of the lawsuit, which would prohibit future lawsuits against her. | | | Ward was caught up in a flood of 261 lawsuits filed two weeks ago that targeted people who, through software programs like Kazaa, make copyrighted songs available for others to download over the Internet. | | | The lawsuit claimed that Ward had illegally shared more than 2,000 songs through Kazaa and threatened to hold her liable for up to $150,000 for each song. |
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http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2003/09/24/recording_industry_withdraws_suit
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| | NewsFactor Network - Tech Trends - RIAA Web Site Defaced, Taken Offline |
| | Goodman said that despite the RIAA's legal contentions that free online music trading violates copyright law and constitutes piracy, the majority of consumers resent content owners' efforts to clamp down on file sharing. | | | The RIAA, which has leveraged copyright law against peer-to-peer site Napster, among others, has warned that it might pursue individual users of free online file trading services. | | | However, distaste for the RIAA and its legal offensive on Internet music file-sharing |
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http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19227.html
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| | Recording Industry Association of America - a Whatis.com definition - see also: RIAA |
| | RIAA, on the other hand, considers such sharing of copyrighted media to be theft. | | | RIAA states that its mission is "to foster a business and legal climate that supports and promotes our members' creative and financial vitality." According to an RIAA estimate, its members create, manufacture, or distribute about 90% of all legally made audio recordings that are produced and sold in the United States. | | | RIAA's recommendations for anti-piracy measures are sometimes controversial, with some people believing that they infringe on individual rights, such as the right to privacy of information. |
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http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci812488,00.html
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| | Online NewsHour: Copyright Angst -- April 24, 2003 |
| | The RIAA cited the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act in its legal effort to force Verizon to reveal the names, arguing the act gives movie studios, record companies, software developers and other copyright owners the right to subpoena Internet service providers without judicial approval. | | | Verizon has 14 days to convince a federal appeals court to grant a stay of this ruling. | | | Verizon had argued that turning over subscribers' names would violate their constitutional right to privacy. |
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/media/jan-june03/downloading_4-24.html
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| | Wired News: Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked |
| | "My opinion is that the people at the RIAA (who are) making the statements about P2P hacking and the (Digital Millennium Copyright Act), the executives and legal staff, are completely disconnected from the technical folks who actually run the website," said Robert Ferrell, a systems security specialist. | | | The RIAA's role as the music industry's voice against digital piracy makes it an obvious target for those who are angered by what they see as the organization's overly vehement crusade for copyright owners' rights. | | | In response to the August defacements, the RIAA upgraded its server software. |
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http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,57048,00.html
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| | Consumers Against the RIAA |
| | The fight against Napster is not about money or copyright. | | | The RIAA has a strict policy on the ownership of copyright music. | | | This means once they release an artiste's music on one of their labels, they automatically become the copyright owners of the recorded masters. |
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http://www.geocities.com/riaasucks
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| | Technorati Tag: riaa |
| | PCPro: A disabled single mother from Oregon has filed a countersuit against the US record industry after it accused her of file sharing and demanded... | | | Canadians between the ages of 18 and 29 are much more willing than other age groups to make illegal... | | | A tag is like a subject or category. |
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http://www.technorati.com/tag/riaa
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| | RIAA Statistics Don't Add Up to Piracy |
| | Clearly millions of old releases must have been sold in the past year to account for these certifications. | | | As evidence, check the RIAA's statistics for multi-platinum certifications. | | | I was very happy to see them provide this information, because after compiling the RIAA's market data, I had noticed that the "new releases" data which had been present in all of the information from 1992 to 1999 had somehow been overlooked when the RIAA put together the 2000 and 2001 summaries. |
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http://www.azoz.com/music/features/0008.html
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| | Downhill Battle - Music Activism |
| | And a Michigan Court outright dismissed a lawsuit against a mother. | | | Northwestern University Law School in Chicago will be hosting a submit about the RIAA campaign. | | | But now that some are actually coming before judges we may see an unraveling of the private law-enforcement scheme that the RIAA has concocted. |
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http://www.downhillbattle.org
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| | RIAA defaced -again! The Register |
| | Underneath the greets, there is a list of RIAA 'recommended' file-sharing tools, such as KaZaA and eDonkey. | | | The RIAA site has been hacked four times in recent months. | | | At time of writing, the site appears to be down, And several readers have been kind enough to include screen grabs, showing that the front page today carried the following message. |
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