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RIAA apologises for Penn State copyright warning
News Spokesman Tysen Kendig said Penn State "remains committed to working closely with the RIAA and other law enforcement entities" to take actions against the trading of copyrighted material. The RIAA confirmed that its policy does not require its...
[May 13, 2003, 8:36]
RIAA: P2P networks full of child porn
Talkback The RIAA are beyond belief. In their zeal to stop all file sharing, they seem to have no scruples. This is just a blatant attempt to get the government to shut down a technology, after their attempts to get the courts to do it failed.
[September 10, 2003, 14:38]
RIAA's next moves in Washington
News And Senator Ted Stevens, the Republican chairman of an influential committee, has publicly expressed scepticism about an RIAA-backed proposal that he worried would hurt his ability to use his iPod. The RIAA, the primary trade association for the...
[May 26, 2006, 13:25]
RIAA: P2P networks full of child porn
Talkback To make life simpler for the RIAA, why don't they go the whole hog and ask governments to ban the possession and use of Mobile phones -(sms, mms, can be problematic), Computers -(file systems can be used to store images of bestiality, networks can...
[September 10, 2003, 21:17]
RIAA: We'll smother song swappers
News As described by sources at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), one method uses software to masquerade as a file-swapper online. An RIAA spokesman said the group was simply trying to protect its existing tools, not expand them.
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
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]
RIAA Web site disabled by attack
News The Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Web site was unreachable over the weekend due to a denial-of-service attack. The apparently deliberate overload rendered the RIAA.org site unavailable for portions of four days and came after...
[July 30, 2002, 7:43]
Yahoo! RIAA strike deal
News The deal with the RIAA establishes the terms and conditions for music performances made under this license, and covers music made available by Yahoo! confirms that music on the Internet will thrive when parties work together," RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen...
[September 6, 2000, 13:42]
RIAA holds fire on Webcast licensing scheme
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced last Wednesday that it planned to create a body that would collect and distribute royalties from Internet radio stations and distribute them to record companies and artists.
[October 9, 2000, 15:11]
RIAA's next moves in Washington
Talkback Basically the RIAA (and similiair parties like the BSA, etc, etc) wants to see things happen their way. With such an attitude the RIAA (and others) are only setting up a large part of the consumer party to completely and totally turn their back on...
[June 2, 2006, 22:34]
RIAA: P2P networks full of child porn
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) appears to be expanding its fight against online piracy by encouraging a legislative crackdown on peer-to-peer networks, warning they are infested with child pornography.
[September 10, 2003, 10:30]
RIAA, Lead Dog for the IP Entertainment Industry
Blog Here's a URL related to the RIAA recent push into ISP-land.http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/12/riaa-v-people-turns-lawsuits-3-strikes Essentially the RIAA wants the ISPs to send an email (presumably) to their customers accusing them of file...
[January 5, 2009, 12:07]
RIAA apologises for more mistaken warnings
News The RIAA refuses to disclose what techniques its crawlers use, but the group appears to employ companies such as MediaForce and MediaDefender. The RIAA said Tuesday that a temporary worker was responsible for firing off legal notifications last...
[May 14, 2003, 7:33]
RIAA changes tactics
Blog According to the Wall Street Journal RIAA is getting cozy with ISPs. Check this out: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122966038836021137.html Cloud computing is going to be somewhat affected by this as well.
[December 23, 2008, 7:17]
RIAA asks court to expose music pirate
News In what may become a new legal front in its war against online copying, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has asked a federal court for help in tracing an alleged peer-to-peer pirate.
[August 22, 2002, 7:35]
RIAA wants to chat with song swappers
News Tapping into the chat functions built into software programs such as Kazaa and Grokster, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Tuesday started sending automatic messages to people who are providing copyrighted songs online...
[April 30, 2003, 7:26]
RIAA site comes under second attack
News For the second time in a month, the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Web site was attacked on Wednesday, apparently by opponents of the industry group's efforts to shut down online music trading.
[August 29, 2002, 7:31]
RIAA sues MP3 site Napster
News The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has filed a suit against MP3 music site Napster, accusing it of operating as a haven of online piracy. The RIAA, wants a bit more black and white, and has garnered the support of a raft of music...
[December 8, 1999, 11:37]
RIAA warns individual song-swappers
News The RIAA learned of the swappers' identities after a protracted legal battle with Verizon Communications, which unsuccessfully fought attempts to unmask its subscribers, citing concerns about privacy and legal liability.
[June 20, 2003, 7:45]
RIAA scales up legal attack
News Under a legal ruling handed down last year, the RIAA must file suits in court before it can approach Internet service providers (ISPs) for information that links alleged file-swapping evidence to the subscriber names on a given ISP account.
[February 18, 2004, 9:35]
