Neowin News Feed for: Riaa

GitHub restores youtube-dl repository after DMCA takedown

Paul Hill — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:16:02 +0000

GitHub has reinstated the youtube-dl repository after it received evidence from the Electronic Frontier Foundation showing that the project doesn't violate the DMCA as it was accused of doing. Read more...

RIAA report shows streaming makes up 80% of U.S. music revenues

Paul Hill — Sat, 07 Sep 2019 01:30:01 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America has published a new report which shows that there are now more than 60 million paid subscriptions for online music streaming services. Read more...

YouTube-mp3.org settles with RIAA, website to shut down

Justin Luna — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 14:02:01 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America has settled with YouTube-mp3.org, after it sued the online service on behalf of labels last year. Its operators have agreed to shut down the website. Read more...

RIAA: Streaming is now the biggest slice in the music business, but we hate the free tier

Adrian Potoroaca — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 01:18:01 +0000

According to RIAA's annual report on the state of the music industry, streaming is now the biggest revenue stream, but the industry association thinks the devil is in the details. Read more...

File sharing host Rapidshare to close March 31, users asked to backup data

Steven Parker — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:54:01 +0000

Yet another file sharing website will soon be lost to history, and again for undisclosed reasons. The site is now displaying a message on its homepage asking users to backup their data, or lose it. Read more...

Megaupload asks for freeze on RIAA and MPAA civil suits

Jake Schenberg — Tue, 13 May 2014 07:02:54 +0000

Megaupload, Kim Dotcom, and others request stays on civil suits pursued by the music and movie industries to prevent their 5th amendment rights being violated in the ongoing criminal cases. Read more...

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

Paul Ferson — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 06:53:30 +0000

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 20:48:01 +0000

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 — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 23:28:22 +0000

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 03:44:09 +0000

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 19:26:40 +0000

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 07:54:04 +0000

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 — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 23:41:52 +0000

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 14:43:41 +0000

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...

BT handed 100,000 file-sharer's IP addresses from BPI

Sam Alderwick — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:26:03 +0000

The BPI have accused BT of not doing enough to prevent music piracy, after handing them 100,000 IP addresses of users allegedly caught sharing copyrighted files, according to an article by TorrentFreak posted yesterday. BT... Read more...

Obama administration backs RIAA's $1.92 million dollar fine

Brad Sams — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:42:51 +0000

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 18:31:14 +0000

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 08:34:10 +0000

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 13:11:04 +0000

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 13:15:28 +0000

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...

RIAA wants more money, world is unsurprised

Brad Sams — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:29:42 +0000

A conference is being held in Washington DC that is discussing copyrights and how they are affected by technology and the internet. The copyright group, namely the RIAA, wants Congress to make the law... Read more...

RIAA to stop suing users, cuts them off instead

Andrew Lyle — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:02:18 +0000

RIAA has reached an agreement to stop suing individuals who continue to share music illegally, but will cut your internet connection off instead. The decision was reached with ISP's to send a warning letter to... Read more...

Dutch boffin calls RIAA expert stupid

Steven Parker — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:36:19 +0000

ONE OF THE WORLD'S top experts in the science of P2P file sharing has offered his harsh evaluation of the RIAA's so-called expert witness report. With what can only be described as a good dose... Read more...

U.S. judge pokes hole in file-sharing lawsuit

Steven Parker — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:32:08 +0000

The ruling was handed down in a case filed a year ago against Christopher David Brennan of Waterford, Connecticut, by plaintiffs Atlantic Recording, Electra Entertainment Group, Interscope Records, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, and BMG Music.... Read more...

UK could follow French copyright plan: Get legal or get off!

Fred Derf — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:08:14 +0000

Britain could follow France in cutting Internet access to users who repeatedly download music or films illegally. In France, warning messages are sent to those who frequently download music or films illegally. If the messages... Read more...

RIAA chief: We don't see a need for mandatory ISP filtering

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:53:48 +0000

U2's manager might love the idea of legally-mandated filtering, but the head of the RIAA says that there's no need for such an approach in the US. The RIAA still wants to see a thousand... Read more...

MPA & RIAA continue Wrath into 2008

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:23:25 +0000

Only 10 days into the New Year and the two groups are at it again. On behalf of the major record companies, the Recording Industry Association of America has sent yet another (the twelfth) wave... Read more...

RIAA finds new unlikely target: Usenet.com

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:18:58 +0000

In the southern district of New York, the Recording Industry Association of America filed a lawsuit on October 12 saying that Usenet newsgroups contain "millions of copyrighted sound recordings" in violation of federal law. Usenet.com,... Read more...

Judge Bars RIAA President Sherman from Testifying, RIAA wins

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 21:40:28 +0000

The first RIAA lawsuit to go to jury trial has resulted in Judge Michael J. Davis barring Recording Industry Association of America President Cary Sherman from testifying. "I don't want to turn this case into... Read more...

RIAA case dismissed as 'speculation'

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:49:19 +0000

The Recording Industry Association of America had applied for judgement in the case of Interscope Records, UMG Recording and Atlantic Recording versus Yolanda Rodriguez, which had gone unanswered by the defendant. The legal challenge was... Read more...

RIAA faces possible class action over suing the innocent

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:57:53 +0000

After the RIAA finished sending out a new batch of 503 "pre-litigation letters" to 58 different universities around the USA, offering to let students settle copyright infringement claims "at a discounted rate" before those claims... Read more...

Defendant settles with RIAA after motion for sanctions fails

Thu, 07 Jun 2007 23:33:00 +0000

A federal judge in Texas has sanctioned the attorney of a defendant in one of the RIAA's countless file-sharing lawsuits after the attorney himself requested sanctions for the RIAA's counsel. Not long afterwards, the parties... Read more...

Florida defendant: RIAA = fraud, conspiracy, and extortion

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:58:25 +0000

While the RIAA continues its allegations of copyright infringement, defendants such as Suzy Del Cid, which accuses the RIAA of all sorts of nefarious misdeeds, are fighting back. UMG vs. Del Cid is being heard... Read more...