The RIAA has long been embroiled in a fight against its own customers, who have again and again shown that they aren’t interested in paying for music that they don’t like. The original conflicts began with P2P filesharing, which the music and movie industry has finally laid off.
For years the RIAA has defended the [...]
When the RIAA announced in December of 2008 that it was finally dropping its lawsuit plan and working with ISPs to fight piracy, the music industry’s hopes soared. They were no longer alone in the fight, and internet providers would help sniff out and cut off illegal music and movie downloading.
So they thought. The press [...]
With its previous sue-the-thirteen-year-old era coming to the end, the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) and MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) have become even more pathetically desperate.
The RIAA recently shifted from its failed lawsuit model, which was supposed to have “made examples out of people,” to an approach that works directly with internet [...]
The panel of judges hearing the case of the music and movie industry vs. the Pirate Bay have made their decision: the four administrators of the torrent tracking site are found to be guilty for contributory copyright infringement and sentenced to a year in prison, and fined approximately USD 3.6 Million in damages.
The press and [...]
I wrote yesterday about the Swedish IPRED law, which authorizes copyright holders to access personal information through ISPs about users who illegally download files.
Under pressure from the RIAA and the music industry at large, a bill was introduced in the French Parliament proposing a “three strikes” system, where users caught three times illegally downloading music [...]
Many of you probably have heard of the Pirate Bay trial in Stockholm, Sweden, where the record and movie industries are up face-to-face against the developers of the Pirate Bay, a tracking service that indexes torrents, claiming that the Pirate Bay is a facilitator copyright infringement and is liable to millions in damages. A panel [...]
