Recording Industry Is Accusing 532 People of Music Piracy

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U.S. Recording Industry Sues 482 More
People

U.S. Recording Industry Sues 482 More
People 06/22/2004 04:01 PM

Recording industry seeks anti-piracy
protections for digital radio

Recording industry seeks anti-piracy
protections for digital radio 06/16/2004 07:45 PM
SiliconValley.com Jun 16 2004 10:44PM GMT

People Deleting MP3s, Sharing Less...
But Hating The Recording Industry More

People Deleting MP3s, Sharing Less...
But Hating The Recording Industry More 11/05/2003 01:14 PM
A new study has come out saying that, thanks to the RIAA suing everyone they can find, many people are deleting mp3s from their hard drives and using file sharing programs less. However, they also have a lower and lower opinion of the recording industry. That's all well and good, but for as much as they hate the recording industry, if they're still going out and buying the same major label music, the recording industry doesn't really care. This is, of course, short sighted, because that hatred of the recording industry means that they're probably willing to jump ship should a reasonable alternative show up. In the meantime, though, the RIAA will declare this as a victory.

Recording Industry leaking Music

Recording Industry leaking Music 12/05/2003 02:12 AM
This is very funny as the recording industry continues to support the RIAA it seems some of it's industry insiders...

Recording Industry Insiders Leaking
Music

Recording Industry Insiders Leaking
Music 12/04/2003 12:02 PM
Remember a few months ago all the news that was made over the very obvious fact that movie s were often leaked by Hollywood insiders? Well, then, now it should come as no surprise to find out that the music industry is now worried about pre-release music being released by insiders as well. Recently, a number of big name albums have been rushed into stores after tracks started showing up on file sharing systems months before the planned release date. Of course, in many cases the record industry doesn't like to admit that these "pre-release" leaks actually helped build buzz for the albums - but the industry refuses to admit that file sharing has any promotional power. In the meantime, they're wasting a ton of money trying to create special, proprietary "secure delivery methods" to send around tracks from pre-release albums to places like radio stations. As you might imagine, this is angering radio stations who don't see why they can't just send over a CD instead of requiring the radio station to set up some convoluted biometric system that involves having to re-enter your password eight times before you're allowed to enter the system.

Don Henley Blames Recording Industry For
Killing Music

Don Henley Blames Recording Industry For
Killing Music 02/19/2004 06:27 AM
An interesting article being picked up by a variety of publications written by famed musician Don Henley, saying that the trouble facing the recording industry isn't about the internet or piracy, but about record labels that no longer understand what business they're in, and who are so focused on profit, they're forgetting that they're creating music and not a commoditized product. Henley's solution is that musicians should fight against media mergers and demand that labels treat musicians fairly. He seems to believe the only way to do this is to have the government step in. I'm not sure why this is necessary. Musicians should vote with their feet. If they're getting screwed over by the record labels (and they are), that's an opportunity for better record labels to come along. Some new labels are trying to be different, and if a few major musicians went in that direction others would quickly follow.

Recording industry to demand
fingerprints of music listeners

Recording industry to demand
fingerprints of music listeners 06/05/2004 04:32 PM
Isn't the recording industry silly for trying this? I'm glad it's wasting its time on this fool's errand. I hope Veritouch gets millions from the RIAA for this rotten idea, which has a zero percent chance of catching on.

The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing. Established biometric vendor Veritouch has teamed up with Swedish design company to produce iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA.

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Canadian Recording Industry Trying To
Kill Online Music Stores

Canadian Recording Industry Trying To
Kill Online Music Stores 04/18/2005 11:29 PM
It's almost comical to see each mis-step that the recording industry makes in trying to figure out how to deal with online music. The latest bizarre move is up in Canada, where the industry has been freaking out ever since a judge suggested that people downloading music weren 't actually breaking the law -- especially in light of the fees charged to all blank media sales to cover such copying. The various groups who manage such tariffs are putting in requests that would amount to appr oximately 40% of the revenue brought in from online music stores such as iTunes. Yes, 40%. You have to assume they're going on the theory that if they get to ask for some money for nothing, they might as well ask for a lot. Hopefully these fees will get thrown out, because if they don't, it will basically kill off legal music download stores in Canada and just send more people to the "free" alternatives.

Cdn recording industry begins legal
fight to stop music uploaders

Cdn recording industry begins legal
fight to stop music uploaders 02/16/2004 01:19 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Feb 16 2004 5:10PM GMT

Survey: Recording industry crackdown
appears to be slowing music downloading

Survey: Recording industry crackdown
appears to be slowing music downloading 01/04/2004 09:33 PM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Jan 4 2004 8:00PM ET

Recording industry expected to adapt as
digital music, portability take hold

Recording industry expected to adapt as
digital music, portability take hold 12/09/2003 12:23 AM
Canadian Press via Canada.com Dec 8 2003 11:06PM ET

Music industry extends piracy war

Music industry extends piracy war 04/12/2005 07:42 AM
More than 900 illegal file-sharers face legal action as the music industry steps up its anti-piracy war.

Music Industry Looks East to Tackle
Piracy

Music Industry Looks East to Tackle
Piracy 04/12/2005 06:10 AM
Music firms are launching their first lawsuits in Asia as the crackdown on net piracy continues. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry announced this morning it had filed 963 lawsuits, with some of them in Japan. Other countries targeted this time round include the Netherlands, Finland, Ireland and Iceland.

Music sales in Japan have fallen by nearly a third in the past five years - the country has the world's second-largest market for music. John Kennedy, IFPI chairman and chief executive, said: "The industry has decided this is the time to act. The Japanese are law-abiding citizens and it may be this delivers the short, sharp jolt that we need there."

The lawsuits come as legal online alternatives such as Napster and iTunes continue to expand. The industry is also calling for ISPs to take a more pro-active approach by going after those who illegally upload material themselves.

View: IFPI | IFPI announcement
View: Napster | iTunes
View: Reuters Coverage

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Music industry sues 532 in piracy suits

Music industry sues 532 in piracy suits 01/22/2004 10:16 AM
globetechnology.com Jan 22 2004 2:08PM GMT

Australian music industry laid back over
piracy

Australian music industry laid back over
piracy 11/17/2003 04:16 AM
ZDNet Australia Nov 17 2003 3:57AM ET

Music industry suing 532 computer users
for piracy

Music industry suing 532 computer users
for piracy 01/22/2004 04:21 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Jan 22 2004 8:19AM GMT

Music industry seeks rules to curb
piracy via digital radio (AFP)

Music industry seeks rules to curb
piracy via digital radio (AFP) 06/17/2004 01:12 PM
AFP - The music industry's main trade association is seeking government rules to require digital radio to use technology to prevent illegal copying and piracy of songs.

Rampant Piracy Threatens to Silence
Latin Music Industry (Los Angeles Times)

Rampant Piracy Threatens to Silence
Latin Music Industry (Los Angeles Times) 07/06/2004 05:21 AM
Los Angeles Times - MEXICO CITY — They have been compared to the Rolling Stones for their longevity and legions of loyal fans. They've sold tens of millions of albums in Latin America. Now the seminal Mexican rock group El Tri is getting dumped by its record label. The reason: Bootleggers are the only ones profiting.

Music industry sues 493 more people over
file sharing

Music industry sues 493 more people over
file sharing 05/24/2004 09:48 PM
SiliconValley.com May 25 2004 1:15AM GMT

A federal appeals court on Friday
rejected efforts by the recording
industry to compel the nation's Internet
providers to turn over names of
subscribers suspected of illegally
swapping music online

A federal appeals court on Friday
rejected efforts by the recording
industry to compel the nation's Internet
providers to turn over names of
subscribers suspected of illegally
swapping music online 12/20/2003 06:23 AM
Record Industry May Not Subpoena Providers .. rejects

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FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music
Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings,
Music News

FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music
Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings,
Music News 03/06/2004 01:53 AM
FMQB: Radio Industry News, Music Industry Updates, Arbitron Ratings, Music News .. Stern Feels ‘Bush-Whacked’ End Is Near .. HOWARD STERN BLASTS CLEAR CHANNEL/BUSH .. continues .. retire

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Recording Industry Hoist By Their Own
Petard

Recording Industry Hoist By Their Own
Petard 08/07/2004 07:30 PM

Recording industry in the antitrust
crosshairs again?

Recording industry in the antitrust
crosshairs again? 07/16/2004 05:16 PM
P2P companies find their entry into legitimite music downloads blocked by the labels. Do their actions rise to the level of antitrust violations?

Canadian Recording Industry Goes After
P2P Users

Canadian Recording Industry Goes After
P2P Users 02/13/2004 01:27 PM

A Code Of Conduct For The Recording
Industry

A Code Of Conduct For The Recording
Industry 04/12/2005 02:00 PM
It appears that record companies and their movie counterparts are pressuring ISPs to adopt a "code of conduct" for blocking P2P file sharing and turning in such users to the authorities. Perhaps it seems odd for one (non-governmental) industry to create a code of conduct for another. But what the heck. In that spirit, we've taken the liberty of creating a code of conduct for ISPs to impose on the record labels. It would go something like this: 1) acknowledge that file sharing is inevitable (and forget about us policing our networks for you); 2) use that to your advantage, as industries have similarly done for centuries; 3) if you need help with #2, do this: devise a smarter business model that embraces file sharing, perhaps even exploits it; 4) if you need help with #3, do this: consider sharing as free advertising and build services around that; 5) if you need help with #4, try this: your new business model all laid out for you; and 6) by all means, stop giving sibling spinoff acts a contract and/or a microphone.

The Recording Industry Finds Their Way
Onto Internet2

The Recording Industry Finds Their Way
Onto Internet2 04/12/2005 02:01 PM
Late last year, the RIAA made a big deal about how they wanted to join the Internet2 group as a member. It was obvious from the beginning that the only reason they wanted to do so was to track to people file sharing on the network. They did make some noises about using the faster Internet2 technology to test out better digital distribution techniques, but the real interest was in finding a few more people to sue. In that, they've been successful. The latest round of lawsuits targets file sharers on Internet2.

Natalie Merchant abandons the recording
industry

Natalie Merchant abandons the recording
industry 03/14/2003 01:08 PM
Pat sez, "Natalie Merchant has completely severed her relationship with the commercial recording industry. Her new album, to be released this June, won't be released by a major label, but on her own independent imprint through her website."

They expect fans to learn about the album from Ms. Merchant's Web site and through publicity and a small advertising campaign. To gauge demand, they may offer fans who order the CD in advance a downloadable file of a song from the sessions that is not included on the album. In an increasingly consolidated retail business, a handful of chain stores, like Borders and Barnes & Noble, have accounted for a large percentage of Ms. Merchant's sales in the past; now her label is approaching them directly.

"I don't know that every artist has the capability to go directly to these chains, but Natalie has a history," Mr. Smith said.

Link Discuss (Thanks, Pat!) (via What Do I Know)

Recording industry files new round of
lawsuits

Recording industry files new round of
lawsuits 01/22/2004 02:44 AM
Boston Globe Jan 22 2004 6:41AM GMT

Interesting spin from CyberCPU on The
recording Industry

Interesting spin from CyberCPU on The
recording Industry 11/10/2003 11:39 PM
Nice to see when another person jumps on the Kick the recording industry in the Ass bandwagon. [CyberCPU]...

Dumb-ass Recording-industry Meat-heads

Dumb-ass Recording-industry Meat-heads 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
While CD sales in the UK continue their upwa rd march (nearly 8% this year) and UK music retailers show healthy profits, the Record Companies are gearing up to sue< /a> their British customers (ala The RIAA). Not all record companies, however, are taking the big stick approach: - Warp Records - (home of Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada and Chris Morris) steps up to the plate with high-quality music downloads, unencumbered by DRM. Go figure.

Microsoft, recording industry discuss
Longhorn and DRM

Microsoft, recording industry discuss
Longhorn and DRM 09/17/2004 07:54 PM
Record labels are trying to get Microsoft (and Apple) to support their DRM schemes in future OS versions. Microsoft is understandably leery.

Dutch court rules against Recording
Industry

Dutch court rules against Recording
Industry 12/19/2003 01:12 PM
In another setback today a Dutch court ruled that the peer to peer application Kazaa was not breaking Dutch Law...

Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD
Burning

Recording Industry Hopes To Hinder CD
Burning 06/02/2004 10:05 AM

Recording industry drops amnesty program

Recording industry drops amnesty program 04/19/2004 08:27 PM

A Double Dose Of Bad News For The
Recording Industry

A Double Dose Of Bad News For The
Recording Industry 12/20/2003 06:23 AM
got a message .. BBC

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Recording Industry Drops Amnesty Program
(AP)

Recording Industry Drops Amnesty Program
(AP) 04/19/2004 07:12 PM
AP - The music industry's trade group has ended a program that offered to prevent people from being sued by recording companies if the downloaders admitted to illegally sharing music online, according to court documents.

Recording industry withdraws DVD trade
secret suit

Recording industry withdraws DVD trade
secret suit 01/28/2004 02:17 AM

The industry group representing the DVD format is seeking to withdraw its trade secret suit against the republisher of an encryption-bypassing program. The DVD Copy Control Association ( DVDCCA ) had initiated proceedings to block Andrer Bunner and another from making available DeCSS , which allows users to bypass the DVD format's protections, in order to play files on Linux machines.

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation :

DVD CCA effectively gave up a multi-year effort to have republication of the program, called DeCSS, declared a violation of trade secret laws

(via Electronic Frontier Foundation )

Canadian recording industry may follow
in RIAA footsteps

Canadian recording industry may follow
in RIAA footsteps 12/17/2003 06:07 PM
The CRIA (the Canadian equivalent of the RIAA) is threatening to sue heavy users of P2P networks.

Grammys reflect true meekness of
recording industry

Grammys reflect true meekness of
recording industry 02/10/2004 03:21 AM
Clothing On, Lips Buttoned .. a lot more cautious .. only

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