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RIAA: We'll smother song swappers
News Given the huge number of file-swappers online, using this kind of direct-action technique against even a small percentage of song-traders could quickly soak up technical and financial resources. This is the first evidence of a technological...
[October 17, 2001, 9:37]
University song-swappers gain brief reprieve
News A Massachusetts court has blocked several recording industry subpoenas that are aimed at college song swappers, saying the universities involved are not immediately required to divulge the alleged file traders' identities.
[August 11, 2003, 13:00]
Another 80 song swappers hit by suits
Talkback The law can suck my mother-fuckin dic. I will DOWNLOAD forever. BITCHHHHHHH.
[February 10, 2004, 15:11]
Another 80 song swappers hit by suits
Talkback The masses, especially radical thinking but naive teens, are being scared out of their Rights! If the masses defy this and NOT sign some ridiculous 'clean slate' or settle early, then there WILL be too many people to legislate after.
[October 31, 2003, 10:08]
Lawsuits readied against UK song-swappers
Talkback Maybe we should sue the record companys for lousy music content?
[June 23, 2004, 13:32]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
Talkback Why not capitalize on an individual song rather than an album. I know, I know, this causes those 'poor musicians' to produce more than one entertaining song in their lifetime, big deal. When will the RIAA use some common sense and stop prosecuting...
[September 9, 2003, 23:12]
More song swappers sued
Talkback The RIAA are abusing the US legal system by threatening end users with huge legal costs if they don't pay $3000. I am in little doubt that at least some of the people the RIAA are suing are innocent, but do not have the funds to defend themselves...
[August 26, 2004, 16:23]
Another 80 song swappers hit by suits
News The Recording Industry Association of America on Thursday said it filed 80 new lawsuits against alleged file swappers, a move that comes after a wave of letters it sent earlier this month that warned targets of their legal risk.
[October 31, 2003, 9:25]
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]
Senator suggests destroying song-swappers' PCs
News US Senator Orrin Hatch on Wednesday backpedaled slightly from his suggestion a day earlier that copyright holders should be allowed to remotely destroy the computers of music pirates. In a brief press release, Hatch, a Utah Republican, chairman of...
[June 19, 2003, 7:20]
RIAA wants to chat with song swappers
News The recording industry is turning file-swappers' own tools against them with a new campaign that will send warnings to people who are offering copyrighted materials online. However, the warnings will note that the file-swappers are putting...
[April 30, 2003, 7:26]
Companies struggling to stop song swappers
News An attack on corporate use of peer-to-peer software is under way, as companies face increasing pressure from record labels and other copyright holders to stop employees from file trading. The latest salvo against companies came last week, when the...
[March 19, 2003, 14:40]
ISP strikes back over file-trader suits
News The US' largest supplier of ADSL broadband connections is challenging the recording industry's current campaign of targeting song-swappers with a lawsuit filed late on Wednesday, charging that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA...
[July 31, 2003, 12:25]
RIAA backs song-identification firm
News Being forced to install song-stopping filters inside software such as Kazaa -- much as a court required of Napster in its heyday -- could severely disrupt the ability of file-swappers to freely trade songs.
[March 3, 2004, 11:25]
Virus hoax targets Napster users
News The hoax claims that song-swappers "will find their illicit music unusable and their computers frozen due to the time release of this bomb". Over the past eight months, unsuspecting "song thieves" using the free peer-to-peer file-swapping services...
[July 2, 2001, 12:13]
File-swapping network told to unplug computers
News The vast majority of song-swappers have moved to Kazaa, Morpheus or other services, and Madster itself has declared bankruptcy. Aspen's order made it clear he wasn't initially sympathetic to Deep's argument, but he has scheduled a hearing on 19...
[December 4, 2002, 13:10]
US Justice Department ready to prosecute file-swappers
News Cary Sherman, president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), said his industry would "welcome" prosecutions that send a message to song-swappers. But, Malcolm said, criminal prosecutions can be much more effective in...
[August 21, 2002, 7:51]
RIAA hits back at 'Nycfashiongirl'
News In a preview of what is likely to show up in many of the infringement lawsuits next month, the RIAA demonstrated that it not only had found the small number of songs listed in the subpoena request, but had examined the full contents of...
[August 28, 2003, 11:30]
New music stores serenade Web surfers
News Moreover, the high-profile lawsuits launched by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) appear -- by some accounts -- to have driven some file swappers toward less legally questionable services.
[September 29, 2003, 14:55]
Legal peer-to-peer services: Gimmick or genius?
News ZDNet UK sister site CNET News.com talked with Fanning about Snocap's vision for a detente between file-swappers and record labels. After a year of increasingly severe court rulings, the original Napster song-swapping service shut down in mid-2001.
[December 7, 2004, 13:45]
