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| Jan 6, 2012 | MPAA Joins RIAA in “Monstrous” Jammie Thomas Appeal | The battle between the RIAA and the file-sharing mother of four Jammie Thomas has turned into a numbers game.
It all started in 2007 when a jury hit Thomas with a $222,000 verdict when she was found guilty of sharing 24 songs using the file... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Tenenbaum Demands Rehearing of $675,000 RIAA File-Sharing Case | Boston student Joel Tenenbaum is the poster child of an entire generation of downloaders, and one of the few people to stand up against the RIAA instead of signing off on a settlement.
His case has been dragging on for half a decade already... |
| Apr 5, 2011 | Tenenbaum Appeal Heard: Is It Okay To Make Someone Pay $675,000 For Downloading 30 Songs? | The latest in the ongoing trial of Joel Tenenbaum, the student who was found guilty of sharing 30 songs online, and told to pay $675,000 for it, until the judge unilaterraly reduced the amount to $67,500. As we noted at the time, it really ... |
| Mar 22, 2011 | New Law Will Shut Down TorrentFreak, Music Industry Expert Says | Last week the White House published a white paper with several recommendations on how to make copyright law compliant with the digital age. Among other things, it suggests classifying unauthorized streaming of copyrighted material as a felo... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | RIAA's return on $58 million in lawyer fees? Two Percent | According to tax documents submitted for the years 2006 through 2008, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has recovered only a tiny fraction of its total legal expenses through "Anti-Piracy Restitution."
The docum... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | RIAA Spent $17.6 Million In Lawsuits… To Get $391,000 In Settlements? | Last month we discussed the question of whether or not the RIAA’s legal strategy was a success or not. An RIAA supporter had claimed that it was clearly a success, since most of the people the RIAA sued chose to settle. We questioned that, ... |
| Jul 14, 2010 | Why the RIAA Doesn’t Mind Losing Money on Lawsuits | It is no secret that the RIAA has been putting more money into their legal campaigns than they could ever get back from individual settlements or fines from file-sharers. Yesterday this was illustrated once again by a document that revealed... |
| Jun 5, 2010 | RIAA Wants Court To Shut Down Limewire | The RIAA and the company behind Limewire have been fighting out a legal dispute since 2006, but in recent weeks the case seems to have been moving along faster than ever before.
Last month, a US Court ruled that the Lime Group, the company ... |
| Feb 11, 2010 | Record Labels Basically Admit That Statutory Damages Out Of Proportion As They Ask For Third Jammie Thomas Trial | I guess it’s fitting that this happens in early February. Slashdot points us to the news that, as was widely expected, the record labels have opted for a third trial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset, rather than accept the reduced award of $2,250 pe... |
| Jan 6, 2010 | RIAA Victim Files for New Trial, Damages Excessive | It would seem statutory damages are a bittersweet pill for the record industry. On one hand they provide a handy battering ram for intimidating litigation targets into settling out of court, which is good for them. On the other, they can be... |
| Oct 30, 2009 | Brooklyn Law School No Fan Of Due Process; Apparently Handing Names Over To MPAA [Updated] | You have to wonder what the Brooklyn Law School is teaching its students about due process, since it recently sent an email to all students saying that after receiving complaints from copyright holders about file sharing movies and TV shows... |
| Sep 21, 2009 | Class Action Copyright Suit Filed Against Scribd… By Jammie Thomas' Lawyers? | Well, this is odd. Back in March, some book publishers and authors started blaming Scribd for hosting infringing scanned and uploaded books. Of course, they ignored the fact that Scribd is quite aggressive in taking down any infringing cont... |
| Jul 29, 2009 | Day 2 of Tenenbaum trial sees industry folk, family on the stand | Opening arguments Tuesday in Joel Tenenbaum's file-sharing trial covered both the you-don't-know-he-did and the so-what-if-he-did angles the defense advanced in pre-trial discussions, with various witnesses testifying that they hadn't used ... |
| Jul 28, 2009 | Tenenbaum trial kicks off in Boston, sans fair use | A pre-trial ruling by the judge hearing the RIAA's case against Joel Tenenbaum -- only just pre-trial -- threw the defense's strategy in the copyright-infringement case into serious disarray just seven and a half hours before proceedings ki... |
| Jul 10, 2009 | Shepard Fairey Case Gets More Complex: Mannie Garcia Claims The Photo Is His, Not The AP's | The Shepard Fairey case continues to get more and more bizarre. You may recall that, back in January, someone figured out which photo Shepard Fairey had used as the basis of his iconic Barack Obama poster. |
| Jun 19, 2009 | Coming to a computer near you: The $80,000 song | Article content
It was just a brief in our newspaper this morning but news that a Minnesota single mom has been ordered to pay $1.92 million US to six record companies is reverberating around the web.
Ray Beckerman, a New York lawyer, has p... |
| Jun 18, 2009 | Testimony ends on Day 3 of the Jammie Thomas-RIAA trial | A rogue member of the gallery got cussed out for illicit gadget use, Jammie Thomas-Rasset hit her personal wall, and the jury pondered whether 'tis better to rip than to download as testimony in the RIAA trial of a Minnesota woman concluded... |
| Jun 17, 2009 | Capitol v. Thomas, day 2: Say what?! | Day two of the Jammie Thomas-Rasset file-sharing trial included a statement by the defendant that even the most sympathetic observers found hard to follow -- "balanced" by a procedural error on the part of the RIAA's legal team th... |
| Jun 16, 2009 | Jammie Thomas jury empaneled, RIAA testimony begins | Twitter is currently doing landmark work in providing a voice for the events in Tehran, but on a much smaller scale, it and larger blogging services served well on Monday as Jammie Thomas-Rasset's second trial kicked off in Minnesota. Sever... |
| May 13, 2009 | The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits | Guest post by John Sullivan Operations Manager, FSF
We don’t make (much) music here at the Free Software Foundation, so it’s natural for people to wonder why the FSF has been standing up for individuals targeted by lawsuits launched by the ... |
| May 5, 2009 | RIAA Still Filing Lawsuits… | Back in December, the RIAA claimed that it had discontinued its strategy of filing lawsuits against individual file sharers. Specifically, the RIAA’s letter to Congress stated “we discontinued initiating new lawsuits in August.” While we’ve... |
| May 1, 2009 | Former RIAA Lawyer At DOJ Will Only Avoid RIAA Issues For A Year | Plenty of folks have noted that the Justice Department has been the landing place for a number of RIAA lawyers. Some have suggested not to get too worked up about this, given that the Obama administration’s ethics rules supposedly forbade t... |
| Apr 17, 2009 | A Look Back At Some Prescient Predictions On Copyright | Via Michael Scott, we are alerted to a blog post by Thomas O’Toole, where he looks at two separate papers from the pre-DMCA era, both presenting incredibly accurate predictions of what was about to happen in the world of copyright and conte... |
| Mar 23, 2009 | DOJ Sides With RIAA In Tenebaum Case | Considering that the Justice Department has hired a bunch of the RIAA’s favorite lawyers, it was widely expected that the Justice Department would weigh in on the Joel Tenenbaum case — despite the fact that folks in the Obama administration... |
| Mar 6, 2009 | Oh Look… RIAA Still Filing Lawsuits… | Remember back in December all the fanfare around that WSJ article claiming that the RIAA was abandoning its litigation strategy? In retrospect, the whole thing is looking like a huge PR campaign rather than anything significant. The story w... |
| Mar 1, 2009 | RIAA Sued for Fraud, Abuse and Legal Sham | Covering the progress in the various RIAA cases has never been one of our top priorities here at TorrentFreak. The legalese and numerous cases seem to drag on forever, or end up in a settlement where the alleged ‘pirate’ pays the record lab... |
| Feb 17, 2009 | Will The RIAA's New Friends In Justice Get Involved Over Constitutionality Of RIAA Damage Awards? | In one of the many cases out there challenging the constitutionality of statutory fines for copyright infringement, there’s some indication that the Justice Department is considering intervening on the side of the record labels to defend fi... |
| Feb 5, 2009 | Justice Department Increasingly Looking Like The RIAA/MPAA's Legal Team | It seems that the Obama administration is basically hiring the entire RIAA/MPAA/BSA legal team these days. It started off with the RIAA’s favorite lawyer, then it hired the BSA’s antipiracy enforcer, and now it’s brought on two more of the ... |
| Jan 23, 2009 | RIAA Asks For Sanctions Against Charles Nesson In Tenenbaum Suit | I think it would be an understatement to say that the RIAA is rather unhappy with Charles Nesson and his team of folks from Harvard Law, challenging them on the constitutionality of the RIAA’s “sue everyone” strategy. Recently, they’ve been... |
| Jan 19, 2009 | RIAA Really Does Not Want Live Broadcast Of Hearing In Tenenbaum Case | It seems the RIAA is, once again, showing its true colors. When Charlie Nesson asked the court in the Tenebaum case to allow a live internet broadcast of a hearing to dismiss the case, the RIAA protested. This was odd, on its face, since th... |
| Jan 12, 2009 | RIAA Just Can't Seem To Stop The Momentum On Filing Those Lawsuits | On December 19th, it was announced that the RIAA was giving up on its legal strategy of suing individual file sharers, and instead was going to go with some mysterious agreements with ISPs (that no ISPs will admit to) to cut off those accus... |
| Jan 9, 2009 | RIAA drops Atlantic v. Brennan; defendant never showed up | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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2008 was a rough year for the recording industry's case against one Christopher Brennan, a student at Boston University. The RI... |
| Jan 5, 2009 | MP3Tunes Points Out EMI's Own Actions Contradict Its Lawsuit | EMI’s lawsuit against Michael Robertson’s MP3Tunes has never made much sense. MP3Tunes isn’t distributing any MP3s. It just lets you upload and store your own music, or, if the songs are publicly available elsewhere, to access those tunes. ... |
| Dec 29, 2008 | Harvard Team Asks Court To Allow Live Broadcast Of Tenenbaum Case Against RIAA | A bunch of folks have sent in the story that Charles Nesson of Harvard, who is challenging the constitutionality of the RIAA’s lawsuits against file sharers, has filed a motion asking that the trial be broadcast live over the internet, amus... |
| Dec 22, 2008 | RIAA Caught Lying About Stopping Lawsuits | The RIAA and the record labels who make up its main membership keep asking folks like us to “trust them” when they come up with new plans to force people to hand over money. They say that we shouldn’t criticize them until the plan is set, b... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Record Labels Disobey Court Order On How Student Info Can Be Used | Ray Beckermann points us to the news that in a lawsuit involving various record labels against some USC students, the record labels asked the court to help identify the students — which the court granted on the condition that the only use o... |
| Dec 5, 2008 | PFF Says BU Helps Terrorists By Not Handing Over Students To RIAA | I really try to avoid reading the Progress & Freedom Foundation’s intellectual property blog, because it just raises my blood pressure with a near constant stream of highly misleading arguments or just purely ridiculous claims. However,... |
| Dec 1, 2008 | More Judges Realizing That Statutory Damages In Copyright Suits Out Of Line | The heart of Charles Nessons’ case against the RIAA is that the copyright law cited to attack file-sharers is unconstitutional due to the ridiculous statutory fines put on copyright infringement. The original fines were really meant for com... |
| Nov 21, 2008 | RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet Again | A few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the past, though these charges have always been dismissed. In one such case, where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed again charging ... |
| Nov 20, 2008 | All-Star Witness List In Lawsuit Over Constitutionality Of RIAA Lawsuits | Last month we had mentioned how Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson was taking on the RIAA’s strategy of suing music uploaders by claiming that the laws the RIAA was relying on were unconstitutional. That case (“the Tenenbaum case”) starte... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | Harvard class takes Constitution-based run at RIAA | A Harvard Law School class led by the head of the school's Berkman Center for Internet and Society is pursuing a counterclaim against the RIAA after it targeted a Boston University graduate student for alleged illegal downloading.
Charles N... |
| Nov 19, 2008 | RIAA Agrees To Settlement, Then Asks For Twice As Much | Ray Beckermann is, once again, highlighting some highly questionable activities by the RIAA, noting that after getting defendants to agree to a settlement amount, the RIAA sometimes immediately asks for double the agreed upon amount, and su... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Judge Slams RIAA Tactics | Early on, in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file sharers, it appeared that judges were mostly siding with the RIAA, and taking the RIAA’s claims at face value. However, due to widespread backlash, and an improved understanding of how the... |
| Oct 29, 2008 | Judge calls out RIAA lawyers for bankrupting families | Go ahead and read this court transcript. It’s a 35-page PDF of the London-Sire Records. Does 1-4 copyright infringement case. It’s the same song and dance you’re all familiar with: RIAA catches someone downloading a song, which entitles it ... |
| Oct 16, 2008 | RIAA Appeals Mistrial Ruling In The Jammie Thomas Trial | The RIAA seems so positively offended that its “making available” theory keeps getting rejected by courts that it’s willing to object to just about anything. As you probably know, the RIAA’s only “win” in a full trial was declared a mistria... |
| Sep 18, 2008 | RIAA Goes After Ray Beckerman, Demands Monetary Sanctions | If you follow the various RIAA lawsuits against music fans over unauthorized file sharing, you certainly know the name Ray Beckerman, a lawyer in New York who not only has defended clients against the RIAA, but runs a wonderful resource, ca... |
| Aug 14, 2008 | RIAA Pays $107,951 to Alleged Filesharer | If you read a mainstream media news report about file sharing or talk to a reporter about (illicit) filesharing, you would think that the only case involving the RIAA was Capitol V Thomas, a case that made news nationwide for the size of th... |
| Aug 11, 2008 | 'Innocent Infringement' As A Way To Lower Copyright Infringement Damages? | You often hear it repeated that “ignorance is no defense” to breaking the law, but it may actually be working in one copyright infringement lawsuit. Ray Beckerman has the details on a case where the RIAA is suing a teenager who claimed “inn... |
| Jul 31, 2008 | Ray Beckerman Picks Apart RIAA Lawsuits For Judges' Benefit | Ray Beckerman, as you may already know, is a lawyer in New York who not only has defended numerous people against RIAA lawsuits, but also runs the Recording Industry vs. The People blog, where he chronicles what’s going on in these cases. W... |
| Jul 30, 2008 | Lawyer Exposes RIAA’s Legal Bullying | Beckerman’s article, entitled “Large Recording Companies vs. The Defenseless” (pdf) seeks to explain the processes of the RIAA in simpler terms, and makes suggestions for those working in courts to ensure that justice is always kept in mind... |
| Jul 28, 2008 | Once Again (With Feeling): RIAA Told To Pay Tanya Andersen's Legal Fees | Despite suing the wrong person multiple times, the RIAA has always pushed back when asked to pay for the legal fees of those wrongfully sued. Tanya Andersen has fought back pretty hard on that claim (and then sued the RIAA separately on oth... |
| Jun 16, 2008 | RIAA Goes Judge Shopping After One Judge Actually Pushes Back | The RIAA has been known to pull all sorts of tricks over the years to get what it wants, but this latest one may be the most sneaky of all. Last week, Ray Beckermann was notified that the RIAA was dropping one of the cases it had filed agai... |
| May 15, 2008 | Bad Day For The RIAA: Two High Profile Cases Go Against RIAA | Well, well, well. The RIAA is not having a particularly good week. In the Tanya Andersen case (where the RIAA sued an innocent person), the court has awarded Andersen $108,000 in legal fees from the RIAA. You may recall that the RIAA had pr... |
| May 14, 2008 | Funny How Universal Music Thinks Infringement Fines Are Unconstitutional When It's On The Receiving End | You may recall Bridgeport Music as a company that claims to own the rights to various musical compositions and has a long history of suing anyone who samples even the tiniest bits of that music. The worst part is that there are very serious... |
| May 7, 2008 | RIAA gets juicy countersuit dismissed, rubs hands while laughing maniacly | I love it when people fight back against the RIAA. Their bullying tactics are getting old, and it seems the courts are realizing this. Last week a judge made it clear that making files available for download — seeding a file to a P2P networ... |
| Apr 2, 2008 | Did A Court Really Reject 'Making Available'? Sorta, But Not Quite… | Well, try to sort this one out. Slashdot, News.com and Ray Beckerman are all saying that the court in the Elektra vs. Barker case have dealt the RIAA a “setback” by rejecting the “make available” theory of copyright infringement. That sound... |
| Mar 5, 2008 | Study: Piracy is Caused by Poor Choice | This claim, published in the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey (pdf), is only reiterating what has been said many times before , that trying to promote the artificial scarcity is what is fueling piracy.
In total, 70% of those who admitted t... |
| Feb 25, 2008 | Another Court Rejects RIAA's 'Making Available' Claim | Yet another court has rejected the RIAA’s “making available” theory of copyright infringement. As a central part to most RIAA cases against individuals for file sharing, the record labels have insisted that merely making an unauthorized mus... |
| Feb 21, 2008 | RIAA Expert Witness is “Borderline Incompetent” Says P2P Expert | In file-sharing cases, the prosecution always claims to have irrefutable, cast-iron, even forensic-quality evidence, with which to batter alleged pirates into defeat. Organizations such as the RIAA claim to carry out their investigations us... |
| Feb 14, 2008 | RIAA wins this one; OSU filesharing offenders named | Seven months after the RIAA requested the names of 11 OSU students accused of copyright infringement, the university is finally coughing them up in the face of further legal threats. The courts decided that there was no good reason the uni ... |
| Feb 13, 2008 | Quotes From Judges Who Aren't Swayed By Flimsy RIAA 'Evidence' | Ray Beckermann has compiled a nice list of quotes from judges who don’t buy into the RIAA’s flimsy evidence. It makes for good reading. Here are just a few of the quotes, though you can read them all at Ray’s site: |
| Jan 4, 2008 | Should RIAA Win Against Jammie Thomas Be Tossed After RIAA Admits It Misspoke On The Stand? | Well, well, well. This morning when we pointed out that the RIAA’s responses to the whole Howell affair were rather lacking, we missed an important point. In the NPR debate between the RIAA’s Cary Sherman and the Washington Post’s Marc Fish... |
| 2008 | Thomas Seeks New Lawyer to Appeal the RIAA | Thomas, served with a $222,000 judgment in October 2007 has recently published to her website, freejammie.com, that her existing lawyers, Brian Toder, and associates, will not be working on her appeal.
Some may see that as a mixed blessing.... |
| Dec 11, 2007 | RIAA NOT Saying That Personal Copies Are Illegal (Yet) | I believe that lawyer Ray Beckerman has done some wonderful things in defending people being bullied by the RIAA and accused of infringing on copyrights with very little evidence. He also does a fantastic job keeping people informed on the ... |
| Dec 1, 2007 | RIAA Cannot Spy on Our Students Says Oregon Attorney General | Earlier this month we wrote about the University of Oregon and Oregon Attorney General’s resistance to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) legal demands for the names of students alleged to have illegally downloaded free mu... |
| Nov 30, 2007 | Oregon Attorney General Fighting Back Against RIAA Lawsuits | Over the summer, we wrote about a lawsuit someone had filed against the RIAA in Oregon, claiming that the RIAA’s investigation tactics were illegal, since the firm it used to sniff out unauthorized users, MediaSentry, was not a licensed inv... |
| Nov 27, 2007 | RIAA Told To Hand Over Data On Cost Per Download | Earlier this year, a court agreed to examine whether or not the fines the RIAA is asking for in its lawsuits against people accused of file sharing is constitutional (that whole “cruel and unusual” bit). The RIAA, in response, has fought ha... |
| Nov 19, 2007 | FSF Sets Up Fund To Pay For Experts Who Can Show How Flimsy RIAA Evidence Is | For years, people have been pointing out that the evidence the RIAA often uses in lawsuits against people for file sharing is often quite flimsy. While there’s no doubt that many of the people the RIAA goes after are guilty of unauthorized ... |
| Nov 2, 2007 | Oregon Attorney General And University Of Oregon Tell The RIAA They're Not Its Free Investigators | Earlier this year, the RIAA began to focus many of its file sharing lawsuits on college students. The RIAA incorrectly referred to it as an education campaign, when it might more accurately be described as pissing off the very people the RI... |
| Oct 4, 2007 | RIAA May Have A Pretty Strong Case | Lots of folks are paying plenty of attention to the first RIAA lawsuit to go to a jury trial. Initially the reports were that the defendant’s case was strong, and the RIAA didn’t have very much evidence. In fact, the RIAA’s star technical w... |
| Sep 28, 2007 | First RIAA Lawsuit To Face A Jury | The RIAA didn’t want it to come to this, but one of its lawsuits accusing someone of sharing unauthorized content is about to go to a jury trial. As Ray Beckerman notes, it’s not a particularly good trial for the RIAA (which partly explains... |
| Sep 24, 2007 | Another Day, Another Smackdown By A Judge Against The RIAA | In the early days of the RIAA lawsuits, it seemed like judges just took the RIAA’s word on things, but that’s long since changed as lawyers defending those accused have become more sophisticated — often realizing that the RIAA research tact... |
| Sep 10, 2007 | Judge Tosses Out RIAA Suit For Being Based On Nothing More Than Speculation | Recently, we’ve seen the courts getting less and less willing to accept the RIAA’s flimsy evidence as being enough to convict someone of breaking the law with file sharing applications. The latest such case is along those lines, as a judge ... |
| Sep 6, 2007 | RIAA Finally Pays Legal Fees On Mis-Filed Suit… But Manages To Screw That Up As Well | Remember last month when the RIAA was simply ignoring a court order to pay up the legal fees for one of the people that they incorrectly sued for file sharing? Well, they’ve finally paid up… but even then they ignored both the interest they... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | GetAmnesty.com: MPAA Extortion at its Finest | This is exactly what the suits at the MPAA must have thought, because they asked Nexicon to develop a program to convert infringement notices into cash.
The GetAmnesty program is a combination of both enforcement activities and efforts to t... |
| Aug 27, 2007 | Judge Says That Making Available Is Infringement… RIAA Pounces Immediately | One of the key points in the various lawsuits that the RIAA has filed against people for file sharing is whether or not the RIAA can prove actual copyright infringement. Many have argued that there needs to proof that an infringing file was... |
| Aug 21, 2007 | Stupidity of the RIAA's Assertations to be Tried in Court | We know you hate the RIAA. Everyone hates the RIAA (except, of course, for the RIAA). Somehow, it’s about the only thing I can think of less popular than the Prez that still gets to continue to function.
The RIAA is like a pack of untrained... |
| Aug 16, 2007 | Michelle Santangelo Sues Kazaa, AOL And Anyone Else She Can Think Of For Her Getting Sued By The RIAA | We’ve been following the story of Patti Santangelo and her family’s fight against the RIAA for some time — but the latest moves by the Santangelo family seem a bit scattershot. Santangelo, of course, was one of the first people to fight bac... |
| Aug 15, 2007 | RIAA Ignores Court Ruling Over Bogus File Sharing Suit; Doesn't Pay Up Legal Fees | In Capitol v. Foster, one of the many RIAA lawsuits where it was later determined that the record labels sued the wrong individual, the judge decided (reasonably) that the RIAA should be responsible for the defendant Debbie Foster’s legal b... |
| Aug 14, 2007 | So You Want To License Some Music For That YouTube Video… | Ray Beckermann points us to an opinion piece by Shelly Palmer, who is President of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Palmer’s article is officially about why it’s dumb for music publishers to join in the mad rush to su... |
| Jul 31, 2007 | RIAA Backs Down Slightly After Being Countersued For Trying To Shame Man Into Settling | If you hadn’t noticed by now, the RIAA will go to great lengths to get people they accuse of file sharing to “settle” a case before it ever goes to court — especially when the evidence they have is especially flimsy. However, with the threa... |
| Jul 17, 2007 | RIAA Must Pay $68,685.23 After Losing to a Nice Mom | You couldn’t ask for better PR! Anti-pirates sued Debbie Foster for owning stolen music. She decided to fight back, hired a lawyer, and began legal proceedings. Instead of backing down, the RIAA then decided to sue her daughter. Three years... |
| Jun 26, 2007 | Are The RIAA's Investigation Techniques Illegal? | Having victims of the RIAA’s shotgun legal approach fight back is certainly nothing new. In fact, having people charge the RIAA with racketeering for its actions has happened quite a few times at this point. However, this latest case agains... |
| Jun 21, 2007 | Judge Tells RIAA: Irreparable Harm Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means | The recording industry loves to throw around the term “irreparable harm” in its various lawsuits — as if someone hearing a song they didn’t pay for will mortally wound the industry. While some say that this is just standard legalese and we ... |
| May 15, 2007 | RIAA’s IP Gathering Techniques About to be Busted | Dr. Pouwelse is hired by Ray Beckerman, Mrs Lindor’s lawyer, to give his expert opinion on the RIAA’s IP-harvesting techniques.
Among others, the RIAA hires the US based company MediaSentry to monitor file-sharing networks for infringements... |
| May 4, 2007 | RIAA Drops Yet Another Case | Given just how many cases the RIAA has had to drop after it was pointed out that it’s sued the wrong person, why isn’t anyone questioning why the RIAA is allowed to file thousands of cases in a single shot when it’s clearly not very careful... |
| Apr 25, 2007 | RIAA Seriously Smacked Down (Again) By Judge | The RIAA’s track record in court hasn’t been so great lately. After being forced to drop various lawsuits once it was pointed out to the RIAA that the suits were targeted incorrectly, the RIAA has tried (and failed) to get out of paying the... |
| Apr 14, 2007 | This is How We Catch You Downloading | In March we reported in some detail about the case of 500 UK file-sharers being legally pursued following claims that they uploaded games from the German publisher ‘Zuxxez’ onto file-sharing networks.
Since then, many people have been in to... |
| Mar 29, 2007 | RIAA Promises Not To Incorrectly Sue Woman A Second Time If It Doesn't Have To Pay Her Legal Fees | It seems like the RIAA is increasingly having to tuck its tail between its legs and run and hide, as more of the people they’re suing are fighting back (and winning). While some have succeeded in getting the RIAA to pay their legal fees, th... |
| Mar 28, 2007 | University Of Maine To RIAA: We're Not Here To Serve Your Legal Complaints | Following the lead of places like the Universities of Wisconsin and Nebraska, the University of Maine has apparently decided it has better things to do than to act as the RIAA’s messenger (via Ray Beckerman) when it comes to the “pre-settle... |
| Mar 28, 2007 | RIAA Drops Another Case After Lawyer Points Out How Weak The Evidence Is | For years, the RIAA has been bullying all sorts of people with lawsuits over file sharing — but the evidence they use has always been weak, at best. In the early years, before most people recognized this, they were forced to settle. But, mo... |
| Mar 25, 2007 | LimeWire Defiant in Face of RIAA Pressure | LimeWire just doesn’t want to die; it’s digging in against the pressure to settle with the RIAA and is refusing to join the likes of Grokster, Kazaa, iMesh, Bearshare and MetaMachine (eDonkey) in the ‘where are they now?’ department of P2P ... |
| Mar 22, 2007 | RIAA Can't Wiggle Its Way Out Of Paying Victim's Legal Fees | The RIAA’s lawsuit against Patti Santangelo has seen a number of interesting twists and turns, which has made it one of the more high-profile cases out there. If you’ll recall, the RIAA tried dropping its case last year when it became clear... |
| Feb 23, 2007 | RIAA Makes Case For Why Parents Should Be Liable For File Sharing Of Kids | Earlier this month, we pointed out that a judge had told the RIAA it needed to pay up for the legal fees for a woman it wrongly sued over unauthorized music sharing. Not surprisingly, the RIAA has asked the judge to reconsider, but there’s ... |
| Feb 13, 2007 | RIAA Tries To Make Deals With ISPs To Hound Customers Into Settling Earlier | When the RIAA first kicked off its backwards-thinking plan to sue music fans who were engaged in unauthorized file sharing, it did so by just getting court clerks to send subpoenas to ISPs demanding info on who controlled specific IP addres... |
| Jan 11, 2007 | RIAA's Latest Trick: When Backed Into A Corner, Try To Associate File Sharing With Child Porn | When other efforts to make life difficult for file sharing systems didn’t work, the entertainment industry started going after them by trying to associate file sharing systems with pornography. Of course, a GAO study on the matter found tha... |
| Jan 3, 2007 | RIAA Pulling Out All The Stops To Keep Its Wholesale Digital Download Prices Quiet | For all the talk about how iTunes is something of a loss leader for Apple, it’s still never been clearly stated just how much the recording industry charges Apple for each downloaded song. Everyone seems to agree that it’s approximately two... |
| Dec 19, 2006 | RIAA Drops Case It Can't Make Against Mom After Bleeding Her Dry — Focuses On Suing Kids | Few of the RIAA’s estimated 20,000 lawsuits against file traders have seen the inside of a courtroom, as the majority of users, fearing legal fees or a loss, settle out of court. The RIAA of course anticipates this, so many of their cases c... |
| Dec 7, 2006 | RIAA defendant targets Kazaa in new lawsuit | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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