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Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings

As long as...it's not a 3 strike policy... i'm relativaly ok with this particular thing...Just a notice and notice system, sometimes users dont know if they are doing something illegal. Furthermore, can they proof without anny doubt that there's a copyright infrigement?no they cannotWith such a large criminal records, the...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, RIAA, movie, music, Verizon Communications Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-11-13

Verizon to test sending RIAA copyright warnings

Verizon is expected to begin issuing 'copyright notices' on behalf of the RIAA to those accused of illegally downloading songs from the web. Verizon Communications, the second-largest phone company in the US, is expected to begin issuing 'copyright notices' on behalf of the Recording Industry Association of America to...

Tags: RIAA, Verizon Communications Inc., Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Channel Management, Digital Media, Internet, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, copyright, Verizon, Marguerite Reardon and Greg Sandoval CNET News

News items 2009-11-13

Universities in hot water over students' peer-to-peer sharing

The success of iTunes shows ....... that people will pay for a product if the cost is reasonable and they have CHOICES.Most music CDs now a day have a SINGLE song that is worth listening to. The reason people started stealing music was because the industry was forcing them to...

Tags: Personal finance, P2P, MPAA, RIAA, piracy

Discussion threads 2009-10-25

Ruling: Fighting RIAA by blog is OK

It is heck when the king decrease that no-one shall say he has no clothes!Big $$bucks$$ also have big egos!

Tags: Blogging, RIAA, blog

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Ruling: Fighting RIAA by blog is OK

Lawsuits have long been tried in the news media, with lawyers putting their spins on the case in front of news cameras and microphones. So what's wrong with a lawyer using a blog to post court documents and otherwise discredit his legal opponents? Apparently, nothing. ...

Tags: RIAA, Blog, Lawyer, Blogging, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-13

P2P legislation is smart next step in piracy education

Honesty not intelligence"One of the things that has always bothered me about the Recording Industry Association of America and its file-sharing lawsuits is that, for many of those people, their biggest crime is being uninformed."One of the things that has always bothered me about ZDNET and its file-sharing posts: the...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), P2P legislation, music, file-sharing, P2P

Discussion threads 2009-10-02

Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over

Once Upon a TimeWhen we had music stores and vinyl discs and LPs were premium items, stores had listening booths for people to check the recording out. Since that was a performance in commercial context, publishers and songwriters could have asked for performance rights back then. They didn't because it...

Tags: Performance management, Advertising & Promotion, media cartel, U.S. Congress, start-over, performance, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-09-17

Music execs crying about royalties again; Time for a start-over

There's an interesting piece by CNET's Greg Sandoval today about royalty fees in the music industry and how the songwriters, composers and music publishers aren't getting their fair share from iTunes, based on today's royalty rules. It's gotten so extreme that those folks even want a cut of the free...

Tags: RIAA, U.S. Congress, Rule, Music Industry, Music, Greg Sandoval, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-09-17

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

Dear RIAA: I know I've said some harsh things before, but today I offer you a potential solution to the illegal file sharing problem that has gripped a technologically-advanced world in the worst possible way. by Zack Whittaker

Tags: RIAA, File-sharing, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-31

Another torrent site slapped down

The Internet is the TorrentAll sites are in the Torrent.You could even start an ISP in the Torrent if you wanted to.Everything is uploaded to the Torrent;that includes music,software and TV shows.When your stuff is in the Torrent it gets copyrighted and my guess is that you can receive Government...

Tags: Torrent, MPAA, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

Writers who call MPAA or RIAA awful need to look in the mirror

"Sitting on your rear end"?I think the authors did more then just sit on their rear ends: They wrote the books. (OK they sat on their rear ends while writing it, but that is better then standing the entire time)Everyone forgets that without that author writing the book, it would...

Tags: awful need, MPAA, RIAA, reasonable time, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

Writers who call MPAA or RIAA awful need to look in the mirror

The medium is the message, as Marshall McLuhan said, and the message of the Internet is pretty clear. Make it available and maybe, if you're lucky, someone will learn something from it. Don't make it available, and it will cease to exist. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: Message, MPAA, RIAA, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Justice says $1.9 million verdict is constitutional

Are there no restraints built into the constitution ...... concerning punishments fitting the crime when it comes to statutary law? Does this mean that it is perfectly legal for Congress to pass a law stating that it is e.g. okay to amputate a man's hands or even hang him, if...

Tags: Financial accounting, RIAA, activist judge, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Let me say it again: Stop sharing music!

They're being bankrupted because they choose......to be bankrupted. I believe both defendants are being offered manageable settlements to this day. Only their "principles" prevent them from doing so.When you don't like the price......of a product, that doesn't give you the right to steal it. Gee, I want a Ferrari...

Tags: Ferrari, RIAA

Discussion threads 2009-08-17

Downloading content illegally vs. getting away with it

I have mentioned a few times before my somewhat controversial view on Internet piracy - the end-user downloading (and uploading, to some extent) of mostly videos, music files, software - and the issues which surround it. As this generation of students are the forerunners of the technological age, born into...

Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., RIAA, Licence, RapidShare, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Zack Whittaker

Blog posts 2009-08-03

Hey, kids! The days of free music are over.

The RIAA claims that they will not be going after any more individuals who share music. As Ars Technica points out in its coverage of the ruling in the Joel Tenenbaum case, Last December, the labels announced that they were no longer initiating new cases...

Tags: Comcast Corp., P2P, RIAA, Verizon Communications Inc., Music, Internet, Peer To Peer (P2P), Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-01

Judge changes her mind: Tenenbaum is liable

Judge changes her mind: Tenenbaum is liableIn non-legal terms: "He's screwed"."Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine."I suspect......Tenenbaum is playing "martyr" here, hoping that public opinion will put pressure on the courts or at least the jury. And it could work; there are plenty of people...

Tags: Tenenbaum

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

RIAA: "All your music are belong to us"

RIAA: "All your music are belong to us"typo:" take getting mangled in the car stereo" -> tape getting mangled.Luv, ur friendly spelling NaziThe proper name is "Scumbags"As in: "Scumbags: All your music are belong to us"Completely Obsurd...I've been saying for years now that there needs to be a "Bill...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, RIAA, digital-rights management, music, Apple iPod, Apple iTunes

Discussion threads 2009-07-31

RIAA: "All your music are belong to us"

Steven Metalitz, a lawyer representing the RIAA and MPAA believes that there is nothing wrong with users buying DRMed content, and then that content later on not being accessible. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: RIAA, Music, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-07-31