Recording Industry Broadens File-Sharing Wars
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The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry is firing up its campaign against illegal file-sharing with 459 legal actions against music uploaders.
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Update: The Recording Industry Association of America purges nasty file-sharing clients' ads from a recent site reportedly planned as part of a new anti-piracy campaign. In Listening Post.
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WITH THE Supreme Court agreeing to decide the Grokster file-sharing case, and with the music industry filing more lawsuits against downloaders, the Internet copyright wars are back in full swing.
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Music downloading and file-sharing are on the increase, and record companies who attempt to regulate illegal downloaders get short shrift from internet users, a survey reveals today.
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British record companies trade association the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) has announced it is to begin a rolling programme of legal action against &#39;major filesharers&#39; who illegally make copyright music available to millions of people across the
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File-sharing pioneer Wayne Rosso has prided himself on being a thorn in the recording industry's side, but his latest venture could wind up generating piles of cash for the music giants he once savaged. -washingtonpost.com
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The recording industry launched a new round of lawsuits against illegal downloading Thursday (Sept. 30), the same day negotiations intensified between copyright
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LOS ANGELES -- Three recording companies have agreed to make music available to be shared and sold over an online file-swapping service that aims to lure music fans away from rival services where trading of music and movies remains unfettered.
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THREE major recording companies have agreed to make their music available to be shared and sold over a new online file-swapping service.
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Money meets mouth on file-sharing legislation threats ISPs are calling on the record industry to put its money where its mouth is on illegal file-sharing, by underwriting the cost of lawsuits brought by people who are wrongly accused of downloading or uploading music.â¦
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Three major record labels have inked a deal with a peer-to-peer company to bring paid song downloads to music fans, apparently supporting a technology that the industry has tried to stifle in the past.
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Music fans will see more online options this year as the recording industry scrambles to develop new business models and find new sources of revenue to offset losses from plunging CD sales.
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Blog: Some record companies are experimenting with distributing albums on the portable USB devices, but for now the releases are mostly expensive collectors' items.
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The industry filed copyright infringement lawsuits against 761 computer users in the latest round of litigation in the record companies&#39; effort to stamp out unauthorized trading of music online.
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Infringes even if only for personal use The Recording Industry Ass. of America (RIAA) has began a legal spat with a man who copied CDs he had bought onto his computer.â¦
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The recording industry launched a new round of lawsuits against illegal downloading Thursday (Sept. 30), the same day negotiations intensified between copyright industry executives and high-tech industry representatives on legislation aimed at companies that encourage copyright piracy via peer-to-peer networks.
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Microsoft's efforts to loosen up access to closely held music owned by record labels has an unintended consequence: It punishes artists who want to share. Commentary by Eliot Van Buskirk.