Neowin News Feed for: Riaa

MPAA: Hotfile is the 'most blatant inducer of copyright infringement'

Paul Ferson — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 07:53:30 +0100

The Motion Picture Association of America has deemed file-sharing hub Hotfile the "most blatant inducer of copyright infringement" during legal proceedings, beating even Megaupload and torrent sites. Read more...

Filesonic goes offline with no explanation provided

Paul Ferson — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 21:48:01 +0100

Filesonic, previously one of the major file-sharing websites on the internet, has been gone for the past few days with no explanation, and the main domain having suddenly changed hands. Read more...

IFPI hoards money from Pirate Bay lawsuit, won't share with artists

Christopher White — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:28:22 +0100

The IFPI won a judgement of €550,000 against the owners of Pirate Bay, but have stated that they will not give this money to the artists and will instead help fund their anti-piracy programs. Read more...

RIAA admits that SOPA & PIPA are useless

Tyler Holman — Sat, 28 Jul 2012 04:44:09 +0100

A recently leaked RIAA presentation says that legislation like SOPA and PIPA wouldn't have done much to combat piracy, even if they had passed, while blaming Google for the backlash against them. Read more...

RIAA President holds massive weight over your family

Paul Ferson — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 01:04:18 +0000

President of the RIAA Cary Sherman holds an incredible amount of sway over the inner workings of ISPs now, and his power will only grow further when all ISPs are forced to comply. Read more...

The bizarre science of copyright math

Tyler Holman — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 19:05:49 +0000

Listen.com co-founder Rob Reid takes a look at the entertainment industry's bizarre claims about the economic damage of piracy. Who knew your iPod contained $8 billion worth of stolen content? Read more...

Zombified kill switch/SOPA bill in the works

Tyler Holman — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:16:01 +0000

A new version of SOPA, including internet kill switch provisions, is in the works after the RIAA CEO called for tougher laws and declared the collective internet to be members of Anonymous. Read more...

RIAA says someone else was pirating on their IPs

Michael Stanclift — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:57:28 +0000

After RIAA was caught downloading copyrighted material from their own IP block, they've come up with an explanation that seems to mirror what defendants they sue commonly use. It wasn't really them. Read more...

Illegal downloads traced to RIAA and DHS

Tyler Holman — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:34:28 +0000

Yes, the RIAA does it, too. Hundreds of IPs originating from the RIAA and Department of Homeland Security have been caught illegally downloading music and TV shows from BitTorrent. Read more...

RIAA sponsored web theft bill passed in Tennessee

Brian Henry — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:26:40 +0100

If you live in Tennessee and share your login credentials for Netflix, watch out. The Associated Press is reporting that State lawmakers in the home to country music have passed a bill that would make... Read more...

Mozilla defies Department of Homeland Security's request to pull extension

Denis Wong — Fri, 06 May 2011 08:54:04 +0100

In the last year, the United States government has seized approximately 120 domains suspected of harbouring piracy activities. Who requested the takedowns? The media industries of the United States of course - the RIAA and... Read more...

LimeWire resurrected by Secret Dev Team

Andrew Lyle — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:30:00 +0000

Last month, LimeWire was forced to shut down after a court order injunction against the P2P file-sharing software company. When LimeWire was shut down on October 26, 2010, it left hundreds of thousands of users... Read more...

Learning from 4chan's vendetta

Alan Cone — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:41:52 +0100

Last weekend you may have heard that notorious message board 4chan got together once again under the name "Anonymous" and DDoS'd the websites of the RIAA and MPAA. This was in response to a claimed... Read more...

MPAA, RIAA websites fall victim to 4chan-coordinated DDoS attack

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:43:41 +0100

The Pirate Bay has been taking a beating lately. After being forced to move through multiple hosting solutions and surviving harsh international copyright law litigation, the pirates could use some good news for once. That... Read more...

Obama administration backs RIAA's $1.92 million dollar fine

Brad Sams — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:42:51 +0100

Over the last few months the court case of Jammie Thomas-Rasset vs. the RIAA has gained a lot of attention from technology websites and traditional newspapers. A quick recap is that Jammie Thomas-Rasset was... Read more...

US student ordered to pay $675K fine to the RIAA

Andrew Fairbairn — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 19:31:14 +0100

A PhD student at Boston University has been ordered to pay $675,000, split between four record labels, for sharing music over the internet. Joel Tenenbaum, a 25 year old graduate student studying for a... Read more...

RIAA awarded $80,000 for each file-shared song

James Hall — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:34:10 +0100

In her second, but almost certainly not final, trial, Jammie Thomas-Rasset (nÃ©e Thomas) has now been ordered by a federal jury to pay $1.92 million to the RIAA for the 24 songs she is charged... Read more...

RIAA is using illegal evidence, says Harvard Law professor

Brad Sams — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:11:04 +0100

The ever so popular group, the RIAA, is about to be handed a class action lawsuit for those who have been sued, settled, or fined by the organization for copyright infringement. How is all... Read more...

NY family has to pay the RIAA $7,000 after court case

Brad Sams — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:15:28 +0100

The most loved organization in the world, the RIAA, has won a case against a New York family for illegally downloading music. The case was originally filed against Patricia Santangelo, 46, a mother of... Read more...

RIAA laying off staff, 'it's a bloodbath' says source

James Hall — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:16:04 +0000

Hypebot reports that the RIAA is in the midst of laying off a significant portion of their staff. They quote one anonymous source as saying, "It is about 90-100+ people across the US and global... Read more...