MetaFilter posts tagged with RIAA and MPAA

DOWNLOADING IS WRONG

azarbayejani — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:06:43 -0800

A new trojan is on the loose. It doesn't install any harmful adware/spyware, but does block both mininova and the Pirate Bay.

The best defense is a good offense

mullingitover — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:05:12 -0800

Internet television host Revision3 was the victim of a denial of service attack this weekend. The source of the attack? None other than RIAA and MPAA-funded MediaDefender.

ARTISTdirect MediaDefender

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:16:35 -0800

Anti-Piracy agents MediaDefender have 700MiB of juicy internal emails leaked on BitTorrent; are in trouble.

Button, Button, Who's Got the Button (So We Can Put Them in Jail)?

jonp72 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:28:16 -0800

Permission to Innovate? How the Record Industry Is Like 17th-Century French Buttonmakers A corporate consultant blog makes a weird but compelling argument that the RIAA and MPAA are forcibly imposing a draconian 17th-century business model on the 21st century.

Doesn't matter if you're a grandma, or a 7-year-old girl ...

WCityMike — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:59:18 -0800

"Don't Download This Song." A free, and rather hilarious, download from "Weird Al" Yankovic done in the 'charity gospel' "We are the World" style, including a few gems in the lyrics like "even Lars Ulrich knows it's wrong." Direct MP3 link. Music video evidently coming shortly.

Google maps 37Signals with Flickr iPod.

loquacious — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 09:06:07 -0800

Cory Doctorow visits a Radio Shack. via keswick and MeCha

Suprnova.org is back... with a vengeance?!

insomnia_lj — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 18:06:40 -0800

Suprnova.org is back... with a vengeance?! It was just last week when suprnova.org, the most popular site online for finding BitTorrent downloads, shut down their site. The MPAA and RIAA crowed, but it appears the celebration was a tad premature. Suprnova's new site mentions a special announcement tomorrow at 9 PM GMT on NovaStream.org radio. Rumors suggest that it will introduce Exeem, a decentralized, BitTorrent-driven software client that turns every user into a tracker, removing the requirement for a centralized site such as suprnova, while providing users with easy searchability, the swarming powers of BitTorrent, and a network that is far harder to shut down.

Access Denied: RIAA, MPAA Blocked From Techfocus

metameme — Sun, 20 Jul 2003 17:27:34 -0800

MPAA Blocked From Techfocus
:Effective immediately, the RIAA and MPAA will need to find another way to get to Techfocus. In response to their legal targeting of individual file-swappers, access from their known networks to this site has now been blocked. While it may still be possible for them to access Techfocus via address ranges which we're not aware of, they'll otherwise have to use non-RIAA and non-MPAA networks to view the site."

Told Ya!

BGM — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:18:42 -0800

Verizon Must Reveal Internet Song Swapper In a recent discussion of the Supreme Court's decision to protect the rights of the individual from the greed and sloth of the many I warned that the RIAA and MPAA, comically inept though the media paints them, would soon have things their way. This link is to a news report about an important step in their fight for individual rights.

yerfatma — Wed, 24 Oct 2001 09:44:43 -0800

Now I Get It
Ugh. Disney made the cartoon equivalent of Hillary Rosen reading your kids a bedtime story. Perhaps succeeding episodes can explain why we should all buy DVD reissues of Disney films. Or extol the virtues of Song of the South. (from Plastic)

john — Wed, 17 Jan 2001 16:22:37 -0800

DivX + filenavigator = headaches for MPAA. Of course the SPA and RIAA can't be too pleased about filenavigator either. I've checked and the DivX of Castaway is on the net already.