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Limewire Settles With Music Publishers But Keeps Fighting Record Labels
Limewire has been locked in a copyright battle with the big record labels since 2006. In May of last year, the peer-to-peer file-sharing service effectively lost its case when a federal judge ruled it...
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Is A $675,000 Penalty For Illegal Music Downloading Excessive?
The recording industry sued thousands of individual file-sharers in an unprecedented campaign of lawsuits that began in 2003; but only two of those cases ever went to trial. Both resulted in large...
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RIAA v. Limewire: Record Labels Will Get Paid Twice For Some Downloads
The Limewire file-sharing service was shut down last year, and the only thing left now is to figure out how much money the now-illegal service owes the record labels that first sued it back in 2006....
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RIAA Lawyer To Jury: Limewire Kicked Off Biggest Theft Of Music In History
The defunct file-sharing service Limewire is facing off with the record labels this week in front of a New York jury, and reports from the courtroom are relaying passionate arguments on both sides. The...
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Limewire Case Settles, Mid-Trial, For $105 Million
The U.S. record industry has finally exacted its tribute from Limewire, the file-sharing service that was in operation for a decade and allowed millions of users to illegally trade songs. Lawyers from...
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How iCloud And Its Competitors Could Lead To Copyright-Trolling Lawsuits
Now that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has launched its iCloud music service, it’s going to be scanning a whole lot of users’ music files. So what is the company-and its music-industry partners-going to do about...
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Indie Labels File Suit Against Limewire, Say They Got Stiffed In Settlement
Earlier this year, Limewire agreed to pay the major record labels $105 million to settle claims that it induced its users to break copyright law. But now the thousands of smaller independent record...
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Only Content Industries Can Create Content People Want, Says MPAA's Attaway
“Our industries do something that no one else can do,” the Motion Picture Association of America’s Fritz Attaway said at the Association of American Publishers annual meeting this morning. “We create...
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Verizon stands up for its users in copyright lawsuit
Verizon Communications has had a long history of standing up against publishers seeking to subpoena information about its subscribers and their downloading habits, so it’s not a big surprise to see Big...
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Comcast crushes porn owner’s “shakedown” of subscribers
In a victory for Comcast, a federal judge in Chicago quashed four subpoenas that would have let a porn studio identify hundreds of subscribers accused of using torrent technology to share videos. The...
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Feb. 7, 2008: AOL, SugarCRM and RIAA Edition
ZDNet: Google Launches Free Team Edition of Apps NY Times: Time Warner Plans to Spin Off AOL’s Dial-Up Service AlleyInsider: EarthLink Q4 Decent; Looking to Buy CNET: SugarCRM Lands $20M Venture Round...
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OpenTape: An Open Source Muxtape
RIAA now will have to contend with an open source version of Muxtape. Download and try this software and make your own mixes. OpenTape: An Open Source Muxtape originally published by Gigaom, ©...
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RIAA Drops Lawsuit Strategy for "Three Strikes" Plan
The Recording Industry Association of America, which has spent the past five years suing tens of thousands of individual file-sharers for copyright infringement, has apparently decided to change...
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Recording Industry Moves Away From Lawsuits, Enlists ISPs In Piracy Fight
After years of engaging in a largely futile campaign of lawsuits against illegal file-sharers, the Recording Industry Association of America… Recording Industry Moves Away From Lawsuits, Enlists ISPs...
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Why the End of the RIAA Lawsuits Won’t Change Anything
The Recording Industry Association of America has decided to end its five-year-long lawsuit campaign against music file sharers, the Wall Street Journal reported today, with the major record labels...
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Another Victim of the Recession: Anti-Piracy
Some 95 percent of all digital music downloads continue to be pirated, according to estimates released today by music industry trade group IFPI. Those numbers don’t translate well for online video,...
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DTV Switch Still Happening for Some Today
Well, today was supposed to be the big deadline for the national switch to digital television. While that date got pushed back to June 12, as of midnight tonight, 641 stations in the U.S. (36 percent...
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ISPs Sell You Out So They Can Sell You Shows
Executives from ISPs including Comcast and AT&T today clarified their roles when it comes to interfering in fights between copyright holders and copyright infringers. There’s a lot of wrong...
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RIAA Wins Long-Standing Copyright Case Against Usenet
The RIAA has won a nearly two-year-old copyright infringement suit against news-sharing and communication network Usenet.com; the verdict co… RIAA Wins Long-Standing Copyright Case Against Usenet...
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Verizon May Cozy Up to the RIAA
Verizon may be joining the ranks of Internet service providers that send subscribers who illegally download or upload music files notices on behalf of the Recording Industry of America, according to...
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