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RIAA Hits Back At 'Nycfashiongirl'
News The Recording Industry Association of America levelled a full legal barrage at the sole Kazaa user fighting its attempts to identify file swappers, saying she was indisputably a major copyright infringer.
[August 28, 2003, 11:30]
RIAA Site Defaced Again
News For the third time in five weeks, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has come under online attack, apparently by activists irate about the group's legal efforts to curtail music-swapping.
[September 4, 2002, 7:50]
Music Industry Casts New Net For Streaming Royalties
News The Recording Industry Association of America launched a mechanism Tuesday for collecting royalties on music streamed over the Internet, marking the record industry's latest attempt to gain online revenue.
[November 29, 2000, 10:32]
Yahoo!, ISPs Dig In Against Labels
News In court papers filed late Monday, the groups said that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has not followed the law in its efforts to learn more about a Kazaa user accused of trading illicit music files.
[September 11, 2002, 8:30]
Labels Reel Kazaa Owner Into Lawsuit
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) sued three prominent file-swapping companies in October in Los Angeles federal court. The recording and movie industry trade groups asked...
[July 10, 2002, 7:40]
Digital Industry Execs Bare Their Souls
News Rosen, who heads the Recording Industry Association of America, was holding forth on the state of the industry, being led through what has become a minefield of intellectual property rights, civil courtroom battles, and 40 million Napster users by...
[November 15, 2000, 14:57]
Copyright Truce Excludes Key Voices
News The peace accord was designed to show a unified front linking the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and a pair of computer industry groups, thus persuading Congress that new regulations are unnecessary.
[January 15, 2003, 15:45]
Kazaa's Man In Washington Speaks Out
News When making the rounds on Capitol Hill, Corwin, 54, is up against the dual political powerhouses of the Recording Industry Association of America and the Motion Picture Association of America. Being an underdog is a switch for Corwin, who spent...
[December 6, 2004, 10:25]
Librarians Issue File-sharing Support
News The development could complicate the Recording Industry Association of America's efforts to portray file-swapping services as rife with spam and illegal pornography. The American Civil Liberties Union, in one of the group's first forays into...
[September 26, 2003, 11:10]
File-swapping Lawsuits Put On Hold
News The Recording Industry Association of America has run into similar procedural setbacks in its ongoing cases against individual file-traders. The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) last week launched a legal attack that borrowed the record...
[November 25, 2004, 13:05]
File Sharing Legal - Canada
News Canadian record labels had asked the court for authorisation to identify 29 alleged file swappers in that country, in preparation for suing them for copyright infringement, much as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sued more...
[April 1, 2004, 8:40]
Hollywood Heads To Court Over Movie-swapping
News MPAA lawyers will rely on the legal playbook invented by the Recording Industry Association of America in its controversial campaign against music pirates. Illegal movie trafficking represents the greatest threat to the economic basis of...
[November 5, 2004, 7:48]
Antipiracy Foes Reach Agreement
News The three groups are the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Business Software Alliance, and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP). Notably absent from the press conference were groups like the Motion Picture Association of...
[January 15, 2003, 11:21]
Tech Activists Fight For Anti-copying Debate
News Besides Valenti's MPAA, the groups represented included Walt Disney, the Recording Industry Association of America, Microsoft, Intel, News Corp.the Home Recording Rights Coalition, and digitalconsumer.org.
[July 18, 2002, 8:50]
White House Enters The Napster Fray
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued Napster in December, charging that the song-sharing service facilitates wrongdoing by letting its users trade copyrighted music for free. On Friday, a group including the National Basketball...
[September 11, 2000, 7:57]
Napster Marches Back To Court
News It's unlikely the judge would rule from the bench on a case this important or complicated'," said Cary Sherman, an attorney for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Just last week, the RIAA joined the Motion Picture Association of...
[July 25, 2000, 13:39]
File-swappers Get Their Own Private Club
News The Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major recording studios, did not immediately return a phone call for comment. Scour, which allowed for the swapping of movies, is now in bankruptcy courts after it was sued by the...
[November 29, 2000, 8:02]
File-swapping Legal Fight Gathers Steam
News Now groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and their allies in Congress are scrambling for legislation such as the Induce Act that would overturn the 9th Circuit's ruling. Last week's meeting was attended by...
[September 3, 2004, 9:35]
Noose Tightens On Napster Clones
News Privacy in file-swapping was put on the front burner last week when the Recording Industry Association of America said it would begin investigations aimed at bringing lawsuits against individuals who make large numbers of files available for...
[July 1, 2003, 9:06]
Is Scour 'Napster With Movies'?
News Next week, the Recording Industry Association of America -- another plaintiff in the Scour case -- will appear in Federal court in San Francisco to ask for a preliminary injunction to stop Napster from facilitating free trading of music on the...
[July 24, 2000, 8:56]
