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20040107
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- "Music
Pirates Going Clean." ... "For whatever reason, the
number of Internet users who download music free of charge took a dive
over just six months last year." ... "A couple of things happened that
may explain the decline." ... "Last September, the Recording Industry Association
of America began suing individuals for downloading music files -more than
340 cases so far. That might have pricked the conscience of many digital
freeloaders, or at least scared them off." ... "The other change was Apple
Computer's promotion of its iPod listening device and iTunes website, which
allows many popular songs to be downloaded for 99 cents each. Other websites,
including the one that once offered free downloading, Napster, also began
to offer paid service." -CSMonitor
20040106
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- "The
recording industry gets silly." ... "Just before
the holidays, a United States appeals court ruled against the recording
industry, which had been trying to wrest the names of suspected pirates
from Internet Service Providers. The court said that the industry's strong-arm
tactic "borders upon the silly." No joke." ... "This in important step
to preserving privacy amid the hysteria over piracy. The ruckus started
when the Recording Industry Association of America attempted to force Verizon,
one of the country's largest Internet Service Providers, to turn over the
names of subscribers suspected of swapping pirated tunes. The new ruling
reverses an earlier decision that allowed the RIAA to subpoena companies
such as Verizon to get user names." -By David Kushner
-RollingStone.com/news
20031019
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- "Targets
of File-Sharing Lawsuits Warned: Recording
Industry Sends Out Warnings Before Next Wave of Lawsuits Over Illegal File
Sharing." ... "The record industry's trade group has warned 204 people
suspected of illegally swapping music over the Internet that it plans to
file lawsuits against them." ... "The letters give the recipients 10 days
to contact the RIAA to discuss a settlement and avoid a formal lawsuit.
The RIAA declined to identify the individuals, but said they were sharing
an average of more than 1,000 songs on their computers."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
20030630
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- "Court:
Anonymous P2P no defense: Operators of peer-to-peer
networks cannot escape copyright infringement claims by giving their members
the ability to mask the content that changes hands on their networks, a
federal appeals court ruled Monday." ... "Calling the tactic a form of
"willful blindness," the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago upheld
a lower court's injunction against the Madster file-swapping network that
had ordered the service shut down pending a trial. But, in a mixed decision,
the court also bolstered a key defense argument invoking a comparison between
file-swapping software and personal home video recording." -By
Paul Festa -CNET/News
20030617
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- "Hatch
Takes Aim at Illegal Downloading." ... "During a
discussion on methods to frustrate computer users who illegally exchange
music and movie files over the Internet, [Utah's Republican Senator Orrin]
Hatch asked technology executives about ways to damage computers involved
in such file trading. Legal experts have said any such attack would violate
federal anti-hacking laws." ... ""No one is interested in destroying anyone's
computer," replied Randy Saaf of MediaDefender Inc., a secretive Los Angeles
company that builds technology to disrupt music downloads. One technique
deliberately downloads pirated material very slowly so other users can't."
... ""I'm interested," Hatch interrupted. He said damaging someone's computer
"may be the only way you can teach somebody about copyrights."" -By
Ted Bridis -AP
via -WashingtonPost
>TechNews
20030504
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- "Software
Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy." ... "Some
of the world's biggest record companies, facing rampant online piracy,
are quietly financing the development and testing of software programs
that would sabotage the computers and Internet connections of people who
download pirated music, according to industry executives." ... "The record
companies are exploring options on new countermeasures, which some experts
say have varying degrees of legality, to deter online theft: from attacking
personal Internet connections so as to slow or halt downloads of pirated
music to overwhelming the distribution networks with potentially malicious
programs that masquerade as music files." (1, 2)
-By Andrew Ross Sorkin
-NYTimes via -Google-News
20030501
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- "4
students to pay fines for 'Napsterlike' sites." ...
"Four college students will pay the major music labels fines ranging from
$12,000 to $17,000 each for sharing music on campus networks, the first
time file-swapping individuals have agreed to pay damages to the music
industry for copyright violations." ... "Students at Princeton, Michigan
Tech and Rensselaer were sued in early April for setting up what the Recording
Industry Association of America called "Napsterlike" internal networks
that shared up to 1 million songs on campus servers. The RIAA asked for
$150,000 a song; the four settled out of court Thursday for $60,000." -By
Jefferson Graham -USATODAY
20030429
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- "Recording
industry targets users of Kazaa, Grokster with warnings."
... "The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade association,
will collect the user names of those it suspects are offering copyright
material with the Kazaa and Grokster file-sharing services, RIAA President
Cary Sherman told reporters during a conference call Tuesday." ... "He
called the effort "educational" and said "there's no enforcement connected
to this."" ... "In a separate action, the RIAA has sued four college students
who allegedly offered more than 1 million recordings over the Internet,
demanding damages of $150,000 per song." -By Alex
Veiga -AP
via -SFGate.com
20030428
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- "Judge
rules file-sharing tools are legal: A US federal
judge has reversed many of the recording industry's previous victories
over peer-to-peer services, comparing Morpheus and Grokster software to
VCRs and photocopy machines." ... "In an almost complete reversal of previous
victories for the record labels and movie studios, federal court Judge
Stephen Wilson ruled that Streamcast -- parent of the Morpheus software
-- and Grokster were not liable for copyright infringements that took place
using their software. The ruling does not directly affect Kazaa, software
distributed by Sharman Networks, which has also been targeted by the entertainment
industry." -By John Borland with contributions by
Lisa Bowman -CNET/News
-ZDNet.co.ukt>News
20030121
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- "Net
Providers Must Help in Piracy Fight: Judge
Orders Internet Providers to Help Trace Users Who Illegally Download Music."
... "Internet providers must abide by music industry requests to track
down computer users who illegally download music, a federal judge ruled
Tuesday in a case that could dramatically increase online pirates' risk
of being caught." ... "The decision by U.S. District Judge John D. Bates
upheld the recording industry's powers under a 1998 law to compel Verizon
Communications Inc. to identify one of its Internet subscribers who was
suspected of illegally trading music or movies online." ... "Verizon promised
Tuesday to appeal and said it would not immediately provide its customer's
identity." -APvia
-ABCNEWS.com
20020927
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"New
Software Quietly Diverts Sales Commissions." ...
"In many versions of the software, a purchase will look as if it was made
through the software maker's site even if the shopper came in through another
site that has its own affiliate agreement with the online store in question.
Those affiliate sites include small businesses and even charities that
use affiliate links as fund-raisers." ... "Some version of the diversion
software is used by some of the most popular music trading sites that have
tried to fill the void left by the collapse of Napster, including Morpheus,
Kazaa and LimeWire. The companies say their software has been downloaded
by tens of millions of Web surfers." -By John Schwartz
and Bob Tedeschi -NYTimes
via -Google-News
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