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RIAA copyright education contradictory, critics say

August 30, 2006 Advocacy groups say video offered to universities contains inaccuracies about the legality of copying music. TAGS: RIAA, critic, university, copyright law, education, music, copy, video

RIAA's year-end shocker

December 22, 2008 After years of relying on lawsuits to try to stop individuals from illegally sharing music, the recording industry decides to try a new tack. TAGS: RIAA, recording industry, Internet Service Provider, lawsuit, file-sharing, president

RIAA verdict playback

October 8, 2007 A Thursday verdict requiring a Minnesota woman to pay $220,000 to the RIAA gets mixed reactions from public and politicos. TAGS: RIAA, Minnesota, recording industry, woman, intellectual property, copyright law, file-sharing, president

Studios, RIAA target student piracy

April 27, 2006 Organizations send letters to 40 universities, urgently asking them to curtail illegal file sharing on their school networks. TAGS: RIAA, university, file-swapping, piracy, initiative, organization, file-sharing, LAN, student, letter, school, president, music

Record labels send more letters to P2P services

September 15, 2005 Recording Industry Association of America sends cease-and-desists to seven P2P services it says induce copyright infringement. TAGS: RIAA, Grokster Ltd., file-swapping, WinMX, P2P, LimeWire, spokesperson, letter, decision

Lime Wire, squeezed, files countersuit

September 26, 2006 Peer-to-peer service provider fights back against record companies allegedly seeking to shut it down. TAGS: LimeWire, record company, RIAA, P2P

For RIAA, a black eye comes with the job

October 9, 2007 Despite negative public image, record industry group has little choice but to continue lawsuits, insiders say. TAGS: RIAA, public relations, file-sharing, jury, fight, image

RIAA's next moves in Washington

May 25, 2006 Recording industry lobbyists have racked up a series of remarkable legal and political victories. CNET News.com asks RIAA execs whether they can continue their winning streak. TAGS: RIAA, Grokster Ltd., digital radio, file-swapping, lobbyist, conversation, P2P, Washington, digital-rights management, Republican, president

P2P group seeks peace but talks tough

September 29, 2003 A newly launched trade group that includes Grokster and Lime Wire offers to negotiate with record labels but at the same time denounces its foes as "tyrannosaurical." TAGS: P2P, RIAA, Grokster Ltd., peer-to-peer company, LimeWire, event

Recording industry shows how to lose by winning

October 17, 2007 As it seeks to fight digital theft, intellectual-property expert Nancy Prager says the music business is waging the wrong campaign. TAGS: RIAA, court, plaintiff, defendant, damage, P2P, file-sharing, campaign, outcome, intellectual property, Kazaa, owner, organization, song, opinion, music

Kiss your MP3s at work goodbye

June 27, 2002 Employees are stashing headphones and trashing file-swapping software as companies throw up firewalls or issue bans to stop streaming media and MP3 trades. TAGS: file-swapping, RIAA, streaming media, corporation, Time Warner Inc., bandwidth, MP3, headphones, president, firewall, video

Week in review: Download dilemma

October 12, 2007 File sharing is getting public airtime again, while politicians wrestle with other tech issues. Also: Sprint turmoil may kill WiMax. TAGS: recording industry, juror, RIAA, public relations, Week in review, Wired Inc., attorney, Oracle Corp., reader, artist, file-sharing

BearShare P2P service sold following settlement

May 5, 2006 Free Peers strikes agreement with four record companies, then sells BearShare to subsidiary of file-sharing service iMesh. TAGS: iMesh, subsidiary, file-swapping, settlement, RIAA, P2P, acquisition, judgment, operator, file-sharing, digital music, asset

Rights and wrongs in the antipiracy struggle

October 16, 2007 RIAA President Cary Sherman says the music industry's response to the theft of creative works helped rescue a business under siege. TAGS: antipiracy, lawsuit, marketplace, RIAA, theft, P2P, music, broadband

High-speed academic networks to merge

March 19, 2007 Internet2 and National LambdaRail plan to combine their efforts in order to facilitate research at universities. TAGS: Internet2, consortium, university, RIAA, technology company, merger, networking

Congress raises broadcast flag for audio

March 2, 2006 Lawmakers say bill to outlaw noncompliant receivers is necessary to protect music industry from piracy. TAGS: satellite radio, digital radio, RIAA, radio, HD radio, satellite, Sirius, XM Satellite Radio, receiver, audio, digital-rights management, Republican, hard drive

Altnet seeks patent royalties from P2P

January 12, 2005 File-swapping companies find themselves on same side as the recording industry in patent dispute. TAGS: Altnet, file-swapping company, file-swapping, patent, peer-to-peer company, P2P, RIAA, LimeWire

TorrentSpy lawyer battling 'copyright extremism'

July 31, 2007 Ira Rothken, a veteran of nasty copyright fights between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, has a large stake in the copyright system. TAGS: lawyer, ReplayTV, RIAA, suit, founder, Hollywood, Silicon Valley, entertainment, start-up, search engine

Week in pictures: Vista in view, Apple store cube

May 19, 2006 roundup Microsoft preps consumers for Vista, WMP 11, while Apple wows with glass palace, new MacBooks. TAGS: Apple MacBook, glass, robot, Apple Computer, Lotus, Sony Walkman, XM Satellite Radio, RIAA, Berlin, IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Intel, Yahoo! Inc., Apple iPod, AMD

Hollywood's copyright enforcer

August 27, 2007 Dean Garfield helped lead the fights against music sites Grokster and Kazaa. Now he's battling pirates from the movie studios' ramparts. TAGS: Dean Garfield, Hollywood, piracy, Grokster Ltd., music industry, RIAA, Kazaa, movie, movies, analysis
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