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The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up That bombshell comes courtesy of the British Recorded Music Industry (BPI), the UK's fluffier version of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The first travel-themed report of the week is news that Ofcom has waved a couple of table... [28 Mar 2008]
Woman hit with $220k bill in file-sharing case
News Thomas was ordered to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs that the Riaa concentrated on. The Riaa has always said suing individuals is a last resort. Ever since the original Napster emerged in the late 1990s, the Riaa has been playing - and some... [05 Oct 2007]
'Abandon DRM' shocker: Apple CEO pens open letter
News The Recording Industry Association of America (Riaa), however, issued a statement interpreting Jobs' letter as an offer to license the FairPlay technology. An Apple representative declined to comment on the Riaa's interpretation of the letter. [07 Feb 2007]
Warner Music Group Streamlines Management and Storage of Digitally Formatted Data
White Paper WMG wanted to replace their existing data infrastructure, which lacked the flexibility needed to handle new and standardized XML based data and prepare for compliance with anticipated Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) standards for... [06 Oct 2006]
Parents and employers targeted in anti-P2P drive
News The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), a London-based affiliate of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), helped develop the software with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). [23 Sep 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Don't hold your breath for 3G
Comment But the public refused and in a legal battle reminiscent of today's RIAA MP3 file-sharing wars, people were prosecuted for non-payment. The Science Museum, London, UK I just had a meeting with a group of young people who brought back a flood of... [02 Jun 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Customer needs...
Comment This week the RIAA announced another step in its war against MP3 music downloaders by the successful prosecution of even more people and its pursuance of copyright justice. Customer needs - who cares? [22 Apr 2005]
Music pirates shun peer-to-peer for iPod-to-iPod
News Among all former music and video downloaders, 28 per cent volunteer that the main reason they stopped was because they were afraid to get in trouble or heard about the RIAA lawsuits," the report concludes. [24 Mar 2005]
Devil's Advocate: Little sympathy for the music industry
Comment Paradoxically, one of the sharpest declines in the sale of recorded music occurred just after the RIAA had the original Napster shut down. But Martin Brampton reveals the other side of their story. Have you been shedding tears for the music industry? [25 Jan 2005]
Niklas Zennström: Telecoms troublemaker
Comment Zennström, a thirtysomething Swede, co-founded with Janus Friius the file-sharing software maker that raised the ire of the RIAA, Kazaa, in 2001. Though known for bearing a slight resemblance to Bill Gates, Niklas Zennström has concentrated on... [05 Nov 2004]
Students in hot water for file sharing
News But the RIAA said its lawsuits were helping build a foundation for the growth in authorised music services such as iTunes, Napster and others. In order for legitimate services to continue their growth, we cannot ignore those who take and distribute... [29 Oct 2004]
iPod users don't steal music...
News While the findings will doubtless prove cause for concern for the BPI and the RIAA, they would appear to suggest there are better places to start the copyright witch-hunt than among the iPod using community. [13 Oct 2004]
Kazaa no longer king of P2P
News Kazaa's lead on rivals has been sliding for more than a year - at least since the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) started filing lawsuits against individual file swappers, with a focus on the Kazaa network. [12 Oct 2004]
File-swapping ruling heads to Supreme Court
News In a joint petition to the Supreme Court, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said that letting the lower court rulings stand would badly undermine the value of copyrighted work. [11 Oct 2004]
Leader: File-sharing suits out of tune with music market
Leader Unlike its US equivalent, the RIAA, the BPI has gone for suing uploaders rather than downloaders to "cut the problem off at its source". At least the RIAA tried to hit big - most recently, they filed suits against more than 700 file-sharers in one go. [07 Oct 2004]
