MetaFilter posts tagged with riaa

RIAA vs. Jammie Thomas

6550 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:42:34 -0800

Jammie Thomas to pay RIAA $1.92 million. Found guilty of willful copyright infringement, the jury awarded the RIAA $80,000 each for 24 songs. This is up from $220,000 in the first trial (previously). Ars Technica has a good review of the case. Kiwi Camara, her most recent lawyer, intends to press on with his class action suit against the RIAA, along with his old Harvard prof Charles Nesson, also involved in the Joel Tenenbaum piracy case.

Nightmares on Wax.

loquacious — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:35:06 -0800

RCA Victor's record manufacturing process in 1942: Part one - Part two.

I did saw a puddy tat

Antidisestablishmentarianist — Sat, 23 May 2009 11:40:46 -0800

Apparently last.fm's parent company CBS did recently hand over last.fm user data to the RIAA. Most likely last.fm did not know until after the fact. Previously.

That's a lot of gold.

arcanecrowbar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:46:15 -0800

"We are urging music stations all over the U.S. to send us photos of their gold and platinum records." Hearings are starting on the RIAA's new pet bill. They're feeling the pinch and would like a few of their gold records back. Some in the industry are in favor. Others are less excited.

In which last.fm hands over scrobble data to the RIAA. Maybe.

NoraReed — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:20:43 -0800

In which last.fm hands over listening data about leaked albums to the RIAA. Maybe.

More MANILOW Coming UP

zenon — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:18:21 -0800

Muxtape is back up! Kinda. Muxtape is back up with 12 artists currently signed up, and they plan to allow other bands to sign up in the near future. First on the blue here, and its demise noted here and juicy details over here **yea Jonson** Note: you have to be logged in to get any musical magic. Wait a second. I can't create any mix tapes. I have discovered the new myspace!!!

Illegal Download =/= Lost Sale

Marisa Stole the Precious Thing — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 04:01:25 -0800

"[A]lthough it is true that someone who copies a digital version of a sound recording has little incentive to purchase the recording through legitimate means, it does not necessarily follow that the downloader would have made a legitimate purchase if the recording had not been available for free," said US District court Judge James P. Jones, in response to the RIAA's request for restitution against the former admin of Elite Torrents, Daniel Dove, who has already been found guilty of conspiracy and felony copyright infringement. The RIAA's request for restitution claimed that each download was equal to a lost sale. Judge Jones disagreed, and in part of his ruling stated:

"It is a basic principle of economics that as price increases, demand decreases. Customers who download music and movies for free would not necessarily spend money to acquire the same product. I am skeptical that customers would pay $7.22 or $19 for something they got for free. Certainly 100% of the illegal downloads through Elite Torrents did not result in the loss of a sale, but both Lionsgate and RIAA estimate their losses based on this faulty assumption."

File sharers should nonetheless be wary of opening the champagne just yet.

The Justice Department - brought to you by the letters ORLY?

dejah420 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:31:07 -0800

The Justice Department - brought to you by the letters ORLY? The left gets to hate him because he "is the RIAA's favorite lawyer". (Note however, that the RIAA has still never actually won a judgement against a file sharer.) The right gets to hate him because he was the lawyer for Terry Schiavo's husband. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce Thomas J. Perrelli, Obama's selection for associate Attorney General. Also announced was the appointment for the number two spot at Justice; David Ogden, who successfully defended extending the Copyright Act, and who fought tirelessly against the ACLU to implement the Child Online Protection Act.

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.

Music industry to abandon Mass Lawsuits

Afroblanco — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:29:30 -0800

Music industry to abandon Mass Lawsuits. After years of suing thousands of people for allegedly stealing music via the Internet, the recording industry is set to drop its legal assault as it searches for more effective ways to combat online music piracy. via /.

Muxtape Tells All

crazyray — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:28:38 -0800

Muxtape's Justin tells the story play-by-play. You may remember an earlier post about muxtape being shut down. After all kinds of speculation, discussion, and consternation, we can finally know what really happened.

Heareasy

Korou — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:42:19 -0800

While Muxtape is temporarily down, Opentape has come to fill in. More RIAA bait:

Mixwit, which uses SeeqPod and SkreemR to find music online; there is an option to link directly to any online mp3 file.
8tracks, where music can be uploaded or selected from the 8tracks library.

"Please remove this script, it can only contribute to getting the site shut down." The RIAA has taken action against muxtape.com.

crazyray — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:13:20 -0800

The RIAA has taken action against the much-beloved muxtape. Alas, the many predictions regarding muxtape.com's inevitable demise have proven to be true.. With the recent speculation regarding Pandora, who else is next? Also, here is what Metafilter users though of Muxtape the first time it was mentioned on the blue.

first time poster to the blue, please be gentle.

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.

Why doesn’t the IFPI dare to stand up for its own history?

mr.marx — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:47:04 -0800

What the IFPI tries to conceal about its origins in fascist Italy IFPI is the global version of the RIAA

No more posts until Matt starts paying up

Horace Rumpole — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:47:10 -0800

Home ~~taping~~ downloading is killing ~~music~~ authorship. The Society of Authors warns that authors will simply stop writing if they aren't compensated for piracy of their work (as unlikely as that seems). Perhaps they should follow the example of Jim Griffin, newly hired at Warner Music to persuade broadband providers to attach a $5 per month surcharge for the benefit of the major labels, in exchange for halting the lawsuits that have thus far been their mainstay weapon against piracy.

Cash rules everything around me

Blazecock Pileon — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:29:49 -0800

CASH is the Coalition of Artists & Stake Holders, a project conceived and initiated by musician Kristin Hersh. CASH is "read-write" — more than consumption; a collaborative online effort — helping make music ownership more of an interactive affair facilitated through Creative Commons licensing.

RIAA puts ripping of legally-owned CDs in the crosshairs

porn in the woods — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 09:47:19 -0800

The Recording Industry Association of America are seeking damages in a federal case against Jeffrey Howell, who kept a collection of about 2,000 recordings on his PC. The RIAA's lawyer states that the files Howell made on his computer from legally purchased CDs are "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.

Life Imitates Satire

Chinese Jet Pilot — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:27:45 -0800

In the increasingly surreal battle between the RIAA and music listeners, reality and satire can be hard to discern.

Sorry again about not buying a CD or whatever.

bowline — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:32:21 -0800

Dear Rockers. Guilt ridden music lovers get to feel better about themselves.

Step 1: Unyoke the Artists

Terminal Verbosity — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:37:48 -0800

Five ways the music industry can prevent its own demise.

"If I could do what I want right now, I would put out my next album, you could download it from my site at as high a bit-rate as you want, pay $4 through PayPal."

beaucoupkevin — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:00:47 -0800

Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails plans to join Radiohead in the self-distribution game. Reznor's public feud with Interscope records reached its head recently; the musician was forced to finance the alternate reality game promotion of Year Zero himself and was shocked at the record label's pricing in Australia. With the release of Year Zero Remixed, Reznor will be free to go his own way.

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Muddler — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 16:01:35 -0800

[Newsfilter]: Fighting a recording industry lawsuit for file sharing saying "it wasn't me!" is probably a really, really bad idea. Jury awards recording companies $222,000 for willfully infringing the copyright on 24 songs in first-to-trial file sharing lawsuit.

Rock and Rule

edgeways — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:48:29 -0800

Virgin v. Thomas, the first RIAA backed lawsuit to make it to a jury trial looks likely to proceed early in October in Duluth Mn. This comes after a motion for summary adjudication (.pdf), was turned down. The witness list(.pdf) includes the president of the RIAA himself. Plaintiff statement of case : Defendant statement of case. (.pdf both).

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.