Posts Tagged with ‘RIAA’

There are a number of things the government has no business legislating. Some of these things are because government doesn't belong in a certain type of decision. Some of them, however, are because the government doesn't fully understand the issue. HR 4279 falls into the second category, along with the SAFE Act discussed here yesterday. The matching Senate bill, not yet voted upon, is S 522.
What is the purpose of HR 4279? Good question. Sponsored by Rep John Conyers Jr [...]

In the news this weekend is a landmark move by the French government that allows alliances with the RIAA illegal law suit behemoth.  Users thought to be illegally sharing files will soon be booted form the Internet, with or without proof.  It seems France is condoning a new deal between the RIAA and its Internet access providers without thought to the consequences this could have around the globe.
Here in the US, persecuted 'Davids' around the country have been taking [...]

You have to hand it to brokep and rest of The Pirate Bay. Juggling raids, location shifts, development plans, and lots else, the team behind the most brazen (and arguably most chivalrous) anti-Big-Media effort known and celebrated by millions upon millions across the seven seas is using what little free time it has to converse about such delicious things as its plans to continue searching for a solitary spot that it can call its own. With the help of a [...]

The morals involved with file sharing on the Web can most certainly conflict with one another. On the one hand we see consumers fighting for some measure of what majority of the population considers justice. On the other, there exists (in some instances) the significant exploitation of the concept of “free", which certainly does need addressing.
Unfortunately, at a time when the waters are still very, very murky, there are a select few bearing the brunt of digital copyright owners’ [...]

When NBC’s CEO Jeff Zucker took time Wednesday to stand atop his company’s soapbox, he said something quite true: that copyright owners are in fact “losing the battle” against the world’s digital pirates.
What he failed to follow his statement up with, however, is that it’s really no use fighting the copyright violators (which, I might add, he said most certainly should be done, and perhaps exponentially more forcefully), and that it’d be far more effective and financially beneficial for [...]

The news many weeks back of music giant EMI’s transfer to a DRM-free existence on the Web, and the subsequent decision by Universal Music Group that came only days ago to do the same with its catalogue, has been accepted with (mostly) open arms by the blogosphere. Yes, there are some particulars concerning where the tracks have been chosen to be sold and whether the switch is temporary or in fact a permanent one that have kept a number of [...]

I gotta be honest. I didn’t think it would happen. But it did.
The Web was abuzz with glee yesterday after news to do with a Congressional hearing, first broken to the world Thursday evening, filtered through to inboxes and RSS readers throughout the US – and even the world.
The topic of discussion at the congressional hearing was the rate hike(s) proposed months prior by SoundExchange. It was originally slated to be put into effect this Sunday. “Was” is the detail [...]

There are those of us old enough to remember a time when music was sold mainly in album form, and your media choices were limited to vinyl or cassette. When you wanted your friends to hear something new you'd gotten, you either went over to your friend's house with albums in tow or held a phone up to your speakers. That was the original peer-to-peer music sharing.
In this age of new media and social networking, we download our music and [...]

Warner Bros. has announced that it will now be offering its entire music and video catalog for free streaming on the social music site imeem.This is very interesting news considering the fact that, just two short months ago, Warner had announced that it was suing imeem, a site that allows its users to share music playlists and video clips.
In the suit, Warner accused imeem of building a user base by capitalizing on the “illegal use of free music,” when actually, [...]