RIAA: Madster Flouting Court Order
News Record labels say file-swapping service Madster is violating the terms of a recent court order and should be shut down or fined until it starts blocking trades of copyrighted music. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) asked a...
[November 22, 2002, 8:10]
RIAA: Madster Flouting Court Order
Talkback It's funny if you look back in time to when Rock & Roll was starting out. It was the recording industry that was ripping off the recording artisit. Now the Recording industry is putting up a wall between the customers and the music.
[September 10, 2003, 21:16]
File-swapping Network Told To Unplug Computers
News A Chicago federal judge has ordered file-swapping service Madster, formerly known as Aimster, to unplug its computers from the Internet in a last-ditch effort to prevent music piracy on its network. Federal judge Marvin Aspen has already ordered...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
Another File-swapping Site To Fall Silent
News An Illinois federal judge said Wednesday that he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song-swapping in the next few days. As with Napster's final loss Tuesday, the immediate result of the Madster-Aimster...
[September 5, 2002, 7:56]
Noose Tightens On Napster Clones
News Madster, previously called Aimster, is one of several peer-to-peer, or P2P, online file-swapping services designed to facilitate the sharing of computer files, including audio tracks. Calling the tactic a form of "wilful blindness," the Seventh US...
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
Liquid Audio Going Down The Drain?
News On 4 September, an Illinois federal judge said he would order the Madster file-trading system, formerly known as Aimster, to halt song swapping. While Napster and Madster ran into a legal chain saw with their file-swapping services, Liquid Audio...
[September 25, 2002, 13:54]
Aimster Unable To Appeal
News In response, Aimster founder Johnny Deep renamed the company Madster.com and added a subscription service. The US Supreme Court won't hear an appeal of a lower court's order that pulled the plug on Aimster, which is a file-swapping service similar...
[January 14, 2004, 8:25]
The Record Labels' New Target: Users
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has successfully sued Napster and Audiogalaxy; it is continuing lawsuits against Madster (formerly known as Aimster), StreamCast Networks, Grokster and the company that created Kazaa.
[July 4, 2002, 8:12]
Audiogalaxy In RIAA Crosshairs
News The RIAA also has copyright suits pending against Napster, StreamCast Networks and its Morpheus software, Amsterdam-based Kazaa BV, West Indies-based Grokster, MP3Board and Madster (formerly known as Aimster).
[May 27, 2002, 6:43]
Audiogalaxy Settles With Recording Industry
News The Audiogalaxy settlement comes as the RIAA continues to wage a legal battle against a string of other free-file swapping services, including StreamCast Networks and its Morpheus software, Kazaa, Grokster, MP3Board and Madster, formerly known as...
[June 18, 2002, 9:30]
Copyright Battle Seeks Early Resolution
News Last week carried a double dose of bad news for committed file-swappers, as a Napster loss in bankruptcy court saw that company shut its doors and lay off most of its employees, and a judge's ruling against Madster (formerly known as Aimster...
[September 10, 2002, 11:04]
