RIAA backs song-identification firm
News Requiring filters "would amount to the anointment of a specific technology as the winner in what the [recording] industry has made a file-sharing war," said Adam Eisgrau, executive director of P2P United, a file-swapping company trade association.
[March 3, 2004, 11:25]
P2P firms claim filtering 'impossible'
News As part of a lengthy letter to Senator Lindsay Graham, the P2P United trade association said on Wednesday that file-swapping companies should not be held to a standard that is technologically infeasible.
[January 29, 2004, 8:00]
P2P group seeks cross-industry detente
News Another trade association dubbed P2P United, which includes a larger group of companies including Streamcast Networks, LimeWire and Grokster, has begun actively lobbying Congress on issues affecting its members and other Internet companies.
[October 8, 2003, 15:25]
P2P group to pay girl's RIAA bill
News P2P United, a peer-to-peer industry trade group that includes Grokster, StreamCast Networks, Limewire and other file-trading software companies, said Wednesday it had offered to reimburse Brianna Lahara and her mother's payment to the Recording...
[September 11, 2003, 10:30]
Grokster decision muddies P2P waters
News What Monday's ruling may stop - or at least delay - are further innovations in peer-to-peer technology, said Adam Eisgrau, a lobbyist for P2P United, a trade association. The slowdown may also be tied to the fact that the Recording Industry...
[June 28, 2005, 9:25]
RIAA wants to chat with song swappers
News The trade association has actively sought information from ISPs about the identity of individual file swappers, and is in the midst of a legal battle with Verizon Communications over one of those requests.
[April 30, 2003, 7:26]
Another 80 song swappers hit by suits
News Several groups, including the P2P United file-swapping software trade association, offered to pay Lahara's settlement costs. The Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday said it filed 80 new lawsuits against alleged file swappers, a...
[October 31, 2003, 9:25]
Copyright differences brew P2P clash
News There are some implications for enforcement, creating an additional wrinkle," said Neil Turkewitz, the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) executive vice president for international affairs.
[January 8, 2003, 9:22]
Software stops illegal song trading
News Created by software firm Audible Magic and backed strongly by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song-filtering software has already triggered interest in Washington, D.C.along with strong scepticism in the peer-to-peer world and...
[April 21, 2004, 15:20]
P2P firms face new legal threat
News The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said it had discussed the matter with Lockyer's office and agreed with the views of the letter. A failure to prominently and adequately warn consumers, particularly when you advertise and sell paid...
[March 16, 2004, 14:05]
ISP caching tool muddies copyright waters
News But holding copies of copyrighted material could make ISPs accomplices in illegal file trading, at least according to an early survey by one recording-industry trade association. Just using the word 'caching' doesn't mean that the service is...
[July 21, 2003, 13:16]
RIAA: Madster flouting court order
News Deep has made no effort to comply with a court order issued last month that required the company to block trading of music belonging to the major record labels, the trade association said. The company could "turn (the service) off easily in several...
[November 22, 2002, 8:10]
Judge: Kazaa can be sued in US
News The Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America applauded the decision in a joint statement. Sharman Networks.should be held accountable by US laws, which clearly indicate that what they are doing is...
[January 13, 2003, 8:00]
Blanket hack muffles RIAA site - again
News The trade association, along with the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), has won many critics in its quest to shut down popular file-trading networks such as Napster and Kazaa. Hackers have once again disabled the Web site of the...
[January 28, 2003, 8:15]
'Honest Thief' waves pirate flag
News IFPI, the trade group representing the international recording industry and an affiliate of the Recording Industry Association of America. The recording industry has succeeded in dismantling services like Napster and Aimster by taking legal action...
[February 24, 2003, 5:53]
Supreme Court hears file-swapping case
News In a joint petition to the Supreme Court, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said that letting the lower court rulings stand would badly undermine the value of copyrighted work.
[October 11, 2004, 9:30]
