Downhill
Battle
Boycott-RIAA Home Recording Rights Coalition Electronic Frontier Foundation Discwatch.com Protect
Fair Use
Stop RIAA Lawsuits Campaign For Digital Rights Anti-DMCA.org Canadian Coalition for Fair Digital Access
Expressivefreedom.org Clearstatic.org Confessions of a Record Producer Are You Listening.com Recording Industry vs The People
Canadian Music Creators Coalition Defective By Design Save The Internet
digizaar my music universe Fat Chuck Earbuzz.com IUMA.com AZOZ.COM DMUSIC.COM Go-Kart Records
Koala Bear Studios Skinny Devil Music Laboratory RIAA Radar: Find out if an album was released by an RIAA affiliate, or an indie.
P2Pact.org: A site dedicated to promoting the many uses of peer-to-peer technology
Mp3 Resources: mp3 related news, books and web resources.
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Eliot Rocks: A tribute to New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is fighting the payola scams that have ruined radio.
Wired: Victim of Dropped RIAA Lawsuit Sues RIAA, Alleges Illegal Investigation of US Citizens.
Billboard.com: Online Odyssey Stoking Interest In New NIN Album. NIN deliberately leaked new songs with the label's blessing. Now, RIAA is threatening to sue people trading them.
Recording Industry Vs. The People: RIAA Sues Stroke Victim in Michigan He his paralyzed on his left side, unable to speak and dependant on Social Security.
My Fox Kansas City: RIAA Tells Students: Pay Up For Downloads. Recording racketeers shaking down kids again.
Chron.com: Stations agree on anti-payola settlement. They must pay a 12.5 Million fine, and give free air time to independent labels and local artists.
Jim Baen’s
Universe: There
Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. DRM Leads to more piracy, not less.
Ars
Technica: RIAA
Appeals Attorneys’ Fees Award This will be big if they lose!
New York Times: Hip-Hop Outlaw (Industry Version) RIAA entraps mix tape producers.
AP: Teen Accuses Record Companies of Collusion. Robert Santangelo, Patti's son, Strikes back.
New York Times: With Arrest of DJ Drama, the Law Takes Aim at Mixtapes. RIAA stormtroopers strike again.
Techdirt: History Repeats Itself: How The RIAA Is Like 17th Century French Button-Makers. Dinosaurs trying to stop innovation.
Zeropaid.com: RIAA Sues AllofMP3 for 1.65 Trillion. They are in Russia, but are being sued under US and New York law.
Gizmosis: RIAA Dismisses Case Against Internet-Illiterate Mother but are still going after Patti Santangelo's kids.
IGN: RIAA Petitions Judges to Lower Artist Royalties. Further proof that neither "A" in RIAA stands for artists.
Wired: Warner Music CEO Admits His Kids "Stole" Music, Didn't Get Sued. Other people's kids would be.
Seattlepi.com: Be loyal, kind and don't steal Movies. Boy scouts spoon feed tykes entertainment industry propaganda.
Recording
Industry Vs. The People: RIAA
Drops Wilke Case in Chicago. They sued the wrong person with no real
evidence, again.
PCWORLD.CA: Harsh
Tune For Teens. Teens don't buy MP3s because they don't have credit cards.
Well, duh! The recording industry is really clueless.
TechDirt: Limewire
Hits Back Hard: Sues RIAA For Antitrust And Consumer Fraud.
The Inquirer: Microsoft
Media Player shreds your rights. Media Player 11 DRM will be worse than
ever.
Star Pulse: "Weird
Al" Yankovic Wants You To Download "Don't Download This Song;"
Get It Here Free!
Wired News: Can
Techie Oust Orrin Hatch? Pete Ashdown is running against a Senator we
detest. Vote for him if you live in Utah.
BoingBoing: RIAA's
"abundance of sensitivity" ends harassment of grieving family.
After a week of bad publicity, they agree to stop badgering children who lost
their father.
Slashdot: ACLU, EFF, &
Others Fight RIAA for Debbie Foster.
Ars Technica: CEA:
RIAA refuses to cooperate, carries out "thinly veiled attack" on fair
use
Wired: Shawn Hogan, Hero. One man will not be extorted by the MPAA. He will have his day in cort.
Slashdot: RIAA Case Against Mother Dismissed. With Prejudice
Slashdot: Aussies Brace for DMCA. Legislation stripping DVD and CD owners of their personal property rights imminent, unless Australian voters can sway Parliament.
Slashdot: RIAA Drops P2P Lawsuit
Strategy, Goes Local.
TMCnet: Spain Outlaws P2P
Filesharing. Recording industry owns them. They are also Taxing
blank media.
Defective By Design is starting a
call-in campaign for consumers to let the industry know what we think. Read more.
Public
Knowledge: ACTION ALERT:
Broadcast Flag Hidden in Telecom Bill. They are trying to sneak it through
the back door again.
BBC News: UK music fans can
copy own tracks. British Phonograph Industry will not prosecute people for
copying their own CDs to a portable device for personal use.
The
Huffington Post: Hilary
Rosen: For The Record For What It's Worth. Ex RIAA Chaiman and CEO now says
lawsuits against individuals were a bad idea.
IEEE
Spectrum Online: Death by
DMCA. A flood of legislation released by the passage of the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act threatens to drown whole classes of consumer
electronics
Slashdot: U.K.
Group Wants DRM'd Media Labeled. Customers should know what they are getting
before buying.
Reuters: Record
Labels Sue XM Over Portable Device. Now, they don't want us to record off
of the radio.
Firedoglake:Where
Is This Going? They claim Big Brother is only watching for terrorists, but
recording cartels want him to watch for downloaders, too.
Mediaweek: UMG
Settles With Spitzer. Payola doesn't pay!
Webpronews.com:
RIAA:
Goodbye BearShare, Hello $30M. Another file sharing network is gone.
Ars
Technica: UN
Broadcasting Treaty seen as severely limiting essential freedoms. Terrible
new proposal would eliminate fair use and curtail free speech globally.
ZDnet: Net neutrality missing
from sweeping telecom bill. Senator Ted Stevens (R - Alaska) wants an audio
broadcast flag to stop recording of digital and satellite radio.
Slashdot: Canadian Music Stars
Fight Against DRM. They have formed the Canadian Music Creators Coalition.
Ars
Technica: "I
sue dead people..." The RIAA is suing Gertrude Walton, who would be 83
had she not died in 2004.
Eff.org: Did EMI and UMG Lie to
Antitrust Investigators? Not really surprising.
News.com: Congress
readies broad new digital copyright bill. The Intellectual Property Protection
Act of 2006 sponsored by Rep. Lamar Smith (R- Texas)
would make the DMCA seem like something from the good old days.
Bit-tech.net:
RIAA
does it again, sues family with no computer.
Recording
Industry vs The People: RIAA
Case Against 14-Year-Old Brittany Chan Dismissed. Suit against little girls
dismissed just as suit against her
mother was.
Slyck: CRIA Falling Apart.
Canada's equivalent of the RIAA getting its just desserts.
Slashdot: RIAA recommends
students drop out of college. They are more a menace to society each day!
News.com: Congress
raises broadcast flag for audio. Time to call and write you Congressmen,
and demand they vote no on this.
Reuters: DOJ
opens probe into online music pricing: sources. Are the labels colluding to
fix download prices?
Michael
Geist: The
Private Copying Levy Distortion. Canada's tax on blank CD media is high,
and you don't get what you are paying for.
Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection: iTunes,
One Billion Suckers Served. Blogger says iTunes is a ripoff.
News.com: Yahoo
exec: Labels should sell music without DRM. It only creates difficulty for
paying customers.
Ars
Technica: RIAA
et al. says CD ripping, backups not fair use. They want to ban us copying
CDs we own to iPods. Another reason to boycott them.
Free Press: Payola: Big Radio Sells Out. In
spite of Eliot Spitzer busting them in New York, labels and radio continue
payola unabated.
The
Register: France
rules in favour of P2P. Downloading legal in France for personal use.
Slashdot: RIAA Sues Woman Who
Has Never Used a Computer. She has requested a summary judgement dismissing
the suit and paying her legal fees.
Michael
Geist: Leading
Canadian Music Label Challenges RIAA Lawsuits. Suing customers is harming
Nettwerk Music Group, not helping them
Ars
Technica: HD
DVD and Blu-ray content to be degraded for analog displays. Did you already
buy an HDTV that doesn't have the new HDMI connection? Forget blue laser DVDs.
BBC News: Digital DJs
'unaware of copy law'. DJs have to lug around records and CDs. No MP3s.
Copyright is stifling the progress of science and the useful arts, not
promoting it.
PC PRO UK: Coldplay
DRM means no play on many devices. Paying customers getting stuck with
useless pieces of plastic again.
Ars
Technica:
RIAA lawyers bully witnesses into perjury. Mafia tactics used to make a 15
year old girl lie in court.
Yahoo.com: Mom
Fights Downloading Suit on Her Own. Patricia Santangelo can no longer
afford a lawyer, but isn't backing down from RIAA.
Bloomberg.com:
French
Parliament Votes to Allow Web File Sharing. So long as it is for private
use, file sharing would be perfectly legal. A levy would be added to ISP fees.
News.com: New
Spyware Claim Against Sony BMG. Their DRM spyware and rootkit installed
even when customers said "no" to EULA.
New York
Times: Buy,
Play, Trade, Repeat. Damian Kulash Jr. of OK Go writes about what's wrong
with DRM.
Ars
Technica: First
RIAA lawsuit heads to trial. Patricia Santangelo is one of a growing number
of people fighting back.
ZDNet UK: Entertainment
industry 'trying to hijack data retention directive'. Law meant to combat
terrorism may be abused by entertainment cartels at taxpayers' expense.
Writers
Block Live: DRM - Digital Rights
Minimization. Former Apple executive writes about the evils of DRM in his
blog.
The
Register: First
Trojan using Sony DRM spotted. It won't be the last.
Slashdot: Record
Labels Unveil Greed 2.0
CNNMoney: Satellite
radio irks record industry. It is perfectly legal to record from the radio
for personal use. RIAA wants to change that with satellite radio.
p2pnet: Big Music wants Britanny Chan. RIAA
sues a little girl! Case was dismissed with prejudice when they sued her
mother.
CNN: Musicians
tell how to beat system. Can't copy a Sony CD to your iPod? Sony will show
you how to violate the DMCA and do it. They would be criminally liable if the
Induce Act passed. How ironic!
Recording
Industry vs The People: Oregon
RIAA Victim Fights Back; Sues RIAA for Electronic Trespass, Violations of
Computer Fraud & Abuse, Invasion of Privacy, RICO, Fraud. A shorter piece
about this case at The
Register.
Afterdawn.com: Finland
Adopts EUCD. This terrible piece of legislation is much like the DMCA in
the US.
Globe and
Mail: Lawyers
call for hard look at pending copyright law. 19 law professors debunk
CRIA's claims to Canadian Parliament.
MP3
Newswire: eDonkey
to Throw in the Towel. Another file sharing network is going away.
Digital
Music News: Priority Records
v. Chan: RIAA Must Get Guardian Ad Litem Appointed for Suit Against 13 Year Old.
Suit dismissed "with prejudice " against mother.
Ars
Technica: When
Playing a CD becomes a "privilege," not a right. Finnish version
of RIAA says that disc owners have no personal property rights.
Ars
Technica: Jobs
Calls Music Industry Greedy. Labels want higher prices at iTunes. Steve
Jobs does not think people will pay them.
Slyck: WinMX P2P Network Mysteriously
Ends Operations. Another p2p music source gone.
p2pnet: The 'We're Not Taking Any More' club.
Two more mothers who will not be extorted by RIAA gangsters.
Pitchfork: The
Chumbawamba Factor. How Big Champagne scours file trading networks to learn
what's popular, and sells info to the labels for big money.
EFF: The Customer Is Always Wrong: A User's
Guide to DRM in Online Music. How you don't get what you pay for from
iTunes, Napster 2.0 and many others.
Lawrence
Lessig: The
Public Domain Here Today, Gone Tomorrow. Lawrence Lessig is professor of
law at Stanford University.
BBC News: BBC
plans to put channels on net. They will make shows available online instead
of calling viewers pirates, and suing.
ZDNet: Studios mine P2P logs to
sue swappers. Hollywood follows the RIAA's lead.
Washingtonpost.com:
Music
Industry Worried About CD-Burning. Sounds like '80s broken record,
"home taping is killing the recording industry." Nonsense then,
nonsense now.
BBC News: Downloading 'myths'
challenged. File traders do buy, and buy more than non-file traders.
Big Payola
Case Uncovered: New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has caught Sony BMG in
the act. They have agreed to pay a ten million dollar settlement. Here are
several articles about it. From New York
Daily News. From Guardian
Unlimited. From San
Diego Union Tribune. From The Denver Post.
The
Huffington Post: Steve
Jobs, Let my Music Go. Former RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen bashes the iPod, but
for reasons other than we would have expected.
The
Register: How
Hilary Rosen learned to stop suing and hate Apple's iPod. The Register's
take on Hilary Rosen's apparent conversion.
BBC News: 'Copy our music' urges
rock band. File trading is free publicity. No payola required, unlike
radio.
Richard
Stallman's The
Right to Read. A startling vision of the pay-per-use society the
entertainment cartels, and some technology companies would create.
Yahoo! News:
Burners'
Bummer. These worthless discs are what led to the creation of this site.
Wired News: Lawmaker Revs Up
Fair-Use Crusade. Rep. Rick Boucher of Virginia is a true hero, defending
our rights against the RIAA and Hollywood.
PhisOrg
Weblog: Sony tests technology
to limit CD burning. More DRM garbage. More about it in a Reuters
Article.
CBC: Recording
industry loses file-swapping appeal. A victory for file sharing in Canada.
Slashdot: CMU
Professor's Rebuttal Against RIAA Propaganda. He put Cary Sherman in his
place.
CNEWS: Judge:
Schools don't have to help music industry group. Take that, RIAA! Universities
aren't your police.
SFGate: State
getting dubious CD donations. Reminds me of people who throw away their
garbage at Goodwill or Salvation Army, and call it "charity".
BBC: Online music lovers
'frustrated'. Downloads are incompatible with players, and can't be moved
from one player to another. DRM stinks!
Slashdot: French Courts Ban
DRM on DVDs. Consumer rights after a sale defended.
Ars
Technica: The RIAA finally
stoops to open extortion, and Comcast helps them do it. Time to leave
Comcast at the curb with the trash!
Financial
Times: Deconstructing
stupidity. What is wrong with "intellectual property" laws.
New York
Post: Police Payoff
Probe. NY cops accepting payoffs from MPAA to bust pirates. Can you say
bribery?
Cincinnati.com:
Couple
plans suit in Web music case. RIAA sued them, now they are suing Kazaa.
MSNBC: RIAA goes after
file-sharing on Internet2.
The
Register: IFPI
drafts 'code of conduct' for ISPs. International version of RIAA would tell
ISPs how to do their jobs.
Firstmonday.org:
Piercing the Peer To
Peer Myths: An Examination of the Canadian Experience.
Silicon.com:
Law
to make iTunes compatible with Microsoft? What is Congress really up to?
Webpronews: Supreme
Court To Hear Peer-2-Peer Client Grokster Case Will they uphold Betamax
Ruling of 1984?
Village Voice: Meet John
Doe.
BBC: Music
Industry "Nails UK Pirates". BPI, British equivalent of RIAA,
suing file traders.
Slashdot: LokiTorrent
Shutdown. Jackbooted copyright fascists strike again.
EFF: Endangered Gizmos. Draconian copyright
laws have destroyed many new technologies, and will continue to if not stopped.
CNN: Electronics
giants form alliance. Manufacturers conspiring to produce a new DRM scheme.
CNet: State
bill could cripple P2P. Programmers could be jailed for creating P2P
applications.
BBC News: Pirate CD sales hit
record high. While the RIAA sues children for file trading, counterfeit and
bootleg CDs are selling like hotcakes. We predicted this.
P2Pnet.net: RIAA Lawsuits Help Terrorists.
Slashdot: RIAA/MPAA
Contractor Deploys Malicious Adware Trojans. Overpeer's tricks getting
dirtier.
UltimateGuitar.com:
Value
Of P2P. Most
musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money
Globe and Mail:
Ottawa's
MP3 fee quashed. No more copyright levy on MP3 players, for now.
MSNBC: High Court Agrees To Hear File-sharing
Dispute
BBC News: Apple iTunes
'overcharging in UK'
The Fulcrum:
Consumers
bite back. An article about the consumer backlash that led to this site,
and others like Downhill Battle.
The Free
Expression Policy Project "THE
PROGRESS OF SCIENCE AND USEFUL ARTS": WHY COPYRIGHT TODAY THREATENS
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM
BBC News: UK music sees
record album sales. So much for the claim that no one will buy due to
"free music on the internet".
MSNBC: Senate passes scaled-back copyright
bill. Provision giving jail time to song-swappers dropped.
Wired News: "Music
Is Not a Loaf of Bread". The band, Wilco proves that file
trading is the greatest form of promotion music ever had.
Wired News: Senate May Ram
Copyright Bill. Call and write them now. Tell them not to do this!
BBC News: Row brewing over
peer-to-peer ads. P2P networks are the new radio, companies are even advertising
on them.
Slashdot: Downhillbattle.org
Bounty For P2P Gaim Plug-in. Chat, file sharing, and security from snooping
in one application.
ZDNet: RIAA targets students in
new file-swapping suits
P2Pnet: Big Music vs Eliot Spitzer New York's
Attorney General has payola in his sights.
RollingStone.com:
Wal-Mart Wants
$10 CDs. The nation's largest retailer lays the smack down on
price gouging.
News.com: Hollywood
takes P2P case to Supreme Court. This is the MPAA and RIAA's last chance to
overturn lower court rulings.
Slashdot: Copyright
Law Mashup Moving Through Congress. "Induce Act" dead for this
year, but other bad bills are still being considered
Silicon.com:
'iPod
users are music thieves' says Ballmer But using a Microsoft approved
MP3 player would be alright we guess.
The
Register: Is
SunnComm a sham or the next, big DRM success? The very company that led us
to start this website is in hot water!
Yahoo! News:
Judge
Strikes Down Anti-Bootleg Law
Ars
Technica: BMI
posts record year, despite evil pirates and Fair Use.
Further proof that the labels don't need draconian laws, or frivolous lawsuits
Slashdot: RIAA
Sues More Music Lovers. It's starting to sound like a broken record, isn't
it?
Wired News: JibJab
Is Free for You and Me. Woodie Guthrie's This Land Is You Land is in
the public domain after all. It belongs to you and me!
Slashdot: RIAA
Grinds Down Individuals in the Courtroom. They nearly cost a man his house!
ZDNet: Judge:
RIAA can unmask file swappers. DMCA supercedes Fourth Amendment? First
Amendment?
The
Register: More
universities agree to RIAA/Napster 'protection'. Further proof that the
RIAA is an organized crime syndicate.
The
Register: Beastie
Boys CD installs virus
Slashdot: RIAA
Dumps Unsold Inventory to Settle Anti-Trust Case. It's like dumping garbage
at Goodwill, and calling it charity.
Cnet: Antipiracy
bill targets technology. Senator Orrin Hatch's proposal would ban anything
that can make a copy, even the VCR. More news about that bill.
Wired News: RIAA
at It Again: 482 More Sued.
Slashdot: Beastie
Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code. It sneaks on like spyware, and
even affects Macs.
ZDNet: Copy-blocked CD tops U.S.
charts. Please stop buying this album or the RIAA wins.
MSNBC: Librarians: Free CDs too much of a
good thing. Labels "give away" un-sellable titles. Some
settlement!
Houston Chronicle: Paid 'ads' for
song plays revive payola memories. Another loophole in the anti-payola
laws.
MSNBC: Music industry seeks digital radio
limits. RIAA wants to kill digital radio, or at least cripple it with DRM.
ZDNet: 'Pirate Act' raises civil
rights concerns. The senate is about to vote on it. Write or phone your
Senator now!
Slashdot: The
RIAA's Push for an Audio Broadcast Flag. How far away is pay for play
radio?
Wired News: RIAA
Bags 493 More Swappers. They are at it again!
Ars
Technica: Nielsen
Ratings System points to possible deceit in RIAA Sales Figures. They're
fudging the numbers again.
Slashdot: RIAA
Forgets to Make Royalty Payments. While calling customers thieves, the
labels ripped off artists to the tune of 50 million.
Wired News: RIAA
Sues 477 More People. How many little kids and kindly grandparents this
time?
News.com.au:
RIAA
drops amnesty program. Few were falling for that scam.
The
Register: Labels
seek end to 99c music per song download. They think they should cost $1.25
to $2.99.
Slashdot: PlayFair
Pulled Due to DMCA Request. Apple doesn't respect the property rights of
I-tunes paying customers. I-tunes is bogus.
CNN.com: Music
slump: 'Worst may be over'. Global recording sales down 7.6% in 2003. The
boycott is working!
News.com: Music sharing doesn't kill
CD sales, study says. Here is a link to the study at the
University of North Carolina.
CTV.ca: Music
industry loses in downloading case. ISPs don't have to reveal subscribers
names.
Yahoo! News:
Study:
File-Sharing No Threat to Music Sales. Further proof that file trading is
not killing the recording industry
SMH.Com: Music
industry way off track with song and dance about falling sales. File
trading is the free promotion.
Wired News: Congress Moves to
Criminalize P2P. Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
Wired News: Music
Group Sues Another Batch. Another 532 subpoenas.
ZDNet: RIAA site disabled for
five days.
Slashdot: File
Sharing Increases CD Sales. Like we have said all along; it is the greatest
form of promotion music ever had.
Slashdot: MPAA
Puts Words in Mouth of CA Attorney General. Is Sacramento the capitol of
California, or is Hollywood?
Toronto
Star: Service
providers resist tracking pirates. ISPs are not the CRIA's police.
Wired: Some Like It Hot.
Without "piracy", there would be no entertainment industry.
SMH.COM.AU: George
Michael now free. From now on, his music will be free on the internet, not
for sale. An artist working for the sake of art!
Wired News: One
File Swapper, One Lawsuit. RIAA will have to file lawsuits one at a time.
No more suing 200+ people at once.
Technology
Review: Losing
Control of Your TV A must-read article about the broadcast flag.
The New York
Times: Report
Raises Questions About Fighting Online Piracy.
Slashdot: EFF's New
File-Sharing Scheme A licensing plan just like the one between radio and
record labels has been proposed.
NJ.com: Morris
mom turns tables in music industry lawsuit. The RIAA sued her, and she is
countersuing for extortion and racketeering.
Slashdot: Price-Fixing
Settlement Checks in the Mail. Finally, two years after the settlement.
Cnet: RIAA sued under gang laws.
More about the lady in New Jersey fighting back, and a few others.
CNN: 531
more music file sharers sued. They still have money for lawyers. If we all
stop buying, they won't any more.
CTV.ca: Music
industry wants info on Cdn. file swappers. CRIA following the RIAA's lead
and targeting customers.
The New York
Times (registration required): The
Pornography Industry vs. Digital Pirates. Adult entertainment publishers
are only suing people profiting by infringement, not file traders. They acting
legitimate while record labels act like the mafia!
Wired News: Court to Hear
Landmark P2P Case. Morpheus and Grokster won in lower court, RIAA and
Hollywood appealed.
Internetnews.com:
Pepsi Stars
RIAA-Sued Teens In Super Bowl Ad. Could this make file-trading even more
cool among teens?
EFF: DVD
Descrambling Code Not a Trade Secret. DVD CCA Surrenders in Bunner DVD
Descrambling Case
Yahoo: More
Suits Filed Vs. Music Downloaders. They are at it again! Another story from
Reuters.
Another from ZDnet.
Reuters: UK
Music Industry Wins Web CD Pricing Dispute. CDwow.com forced to raise
prices in UK and Ireland.
Cnet: Oops! They're swapping again.
File-trading is up 14 percent.
Slashdot: 20
Year Anniversary of Home Taping Decision. Hollywood almost had the VCR
outlawed!
Internetnews.com:
Senator
Plans P2P Summit.
Geek.com: RIAA
posing as cops, raiding street vendors. Vigilantism is a crime. Will they
be arrested?
The
Register: Vivendi spinoff
takes MP3.com archive private. TruSonic, a competitor of Muzak, now owns
the whole library.
CNN: Penn
State launches Napster music service. No additional charge. It's part of
tuition.
SMH.COM.AU: Forget the
spin, taping is not killing music. Further proof of what we have known all
along.
The
Register: Belgian
Watchdog Sues Record Biz Over Copy Protection. Take them to the cleaners!
Aftenposten:
"DVD-Jon"
Acquitted a second time. May yet face triple jeopardy in Norway's Supreme
Court.
ZDNet: Court:
RIAA lawsuit strategy illegal Take that, Cary Sherman!
Slashdot: CRIA
Prepares To Sue P2P Copyright Violators Canada's version of the RIAA is
mimicking the US music mafia.
ZDNet: Canada
deems P2P downloading legal but adds fees to MP3 players, like the ones on
blank tapes and CDs.
Slashdot: Former
ATF head to join RIAA. Maybe this satirical video (warning,
some violent images) isn't farfetched after all!
RedNova: Music
Industry Targets Even Computer-less. 79 year-old Ernest Brenot of
Ridgefield, Washington doesn't own a computer, and couldn't operate one if he
did!
Infoworld: RIAA
extends legal actions How many little kids and grandmas will the music
mafia attack this time?
Red Herring:
Music Industry: Stop
Shirking
CTV.CA: Music
group aims to charge Internet users More recording industry lobbyists
claiming we owe them!
Tennessean.com:
Will
the downloading generation ever pay for online music? Do we pay to listen
to the radio?
Slashdot: RIAA
and MPAA lobbying for permanent antitrust exemption. Ordinary people must
obey the law, or be punished. Corporations can bribe away laws they don't like?
What a crock!
KOMO News: RIAA Shaking down a 15 year old
girl now! The RIAA makes the mafia look legitimate and respectable.
Slashdot: Recording
Industry's Unexpected Benefit from P2P. More about BigChampagne, the
company labels are paying to track what's hot and what's not. See, RIAA! We
told you promotion as good as P2P is worth paying for!
VNUNET.COM: Copyright law catches up with UK surfers.
The DMCA has been exported to the UK.
CNN: Study:
Millions delete all music files Many of us are afraid of the RIAA, but
scaring people isn't how you woo customers!
The
Hollywood Reporter: Commentary
by Todd Rundgren The music industry veteran argues that the labels
have mishandled downloadable music.
Cnet: A New Tech
Battle Brews In D.C. Lamar Smith, Howard Berman, and John Conyers are
at it again!
TCS: P2P File trading may be perfectly
legal in Canada It may fall under the category, "private
copying."
IP Justice: Stop the FTAA
Information Lockdown
SFGate: RIAA
warns 204 more people it plans to sue. Another Shakedown? Any 12 year olds
this time?
BBC: Universal Music slashes
jobs. Call customers thieves, and you lose customers! You need to woo us,
not bully us!
MP3
Newswire: RIAA
Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes A must read!
Go-Kart
Records: Open
Letter To RIAA. An indie label sticks it to the music mafia, offers free
downloads.
CorpWatch: Clear Channel
Rewrites Rules of Radio Broadcasting. They are responsible for making radio
a wasteland.
Wired: Big Champagne Is
Watching You Data mining for what's hot on P2P networks.
Wired: Florida Dorms
Lock Out P2P Users
Slashdot: Newest
Audio CD DRM Proves Ineffective Will they ever learn?
The Matt
Shack: It?s Not File
Sharing, It?s Stealing Written by a different Matthew Brown, not the
webmaster of dontbuycds.org.
EFF: Unintended
Consequences: Five Years under the DMCA
Yahoo: Coleman
Seeks Lower Downloading Penalties
STL
Today.com:
Charter Cable Sues To Block Music Inquiry A cable company comes to the
defense of their customers!
Slashdot: Telcos
Stand Against RIAA
CNN: RIAA drops
lawsuit against 66-year-old grandmother. She has a Mac. Kazaa only runs on
PCs.
USC.EDU: Larry
Lessig to debate Hilary Rosen. Wasn't she stepping down from the RIAA? Give
her hell, Professor Lessig!
New York
Times: SBC
Won't Name Names in File-Sharing Cases
Cnet: Court scrutinizes P2P
subpoena process Even the DMCA may not give the RIAA the power they want to
wield.
The Ornery
American: MP3s
Are Not The Devil.
Shumans.com:
The Open Music Model check
it out!
DenverPost.com:
Recording
industry's missteps Compare them to the movie industry.
Slashdot: RIAA
bits More people in glass houses throwing stones, a satire piece, and an
important EFF petition.
ZDNet: Copy-protected
CDs take step forward. They are admitting to it this time. They used to
deny it, and call our players defective.
Fox News: 12-Year-Old Sued for
Music Downloading. Now they are picking on little girls! More about poor
little Brianna
LaHara.
SFGate: Artists
blast record companies over lawsuits against downloaders. These
artists understand that the RIAA are not their friends. Here is another
example.
The INDY
channel: Lawsuit
Seeks To Silence Indy Karaoke Bar. Karaoke Kops want license fees paid.
BBC: Grandfather caught
in music fight Not satisfied attacking little girls, RIAA targets kindly
old Grandpa.
TechTV: RIAA
Hit List. It's not this weeks top 40 songs.
White Paper:
The P2P Revolution. Peer
to Peer Networking & The Entertainment Industry Scott Jensen, Author of
White paper interviewed
on The David Lawrence Show.
Slashdot: RIAA
PR Efforts Examined We think suing 12-year olds and calling customers
thieves is bad PR.
Cnet: RIAA sued for amnesty offer
which was just a scam to gather personal information to be used against people.
ZDNet: RIAA
sues 261 file swappers The deluge begins. Here is more, and more, and
more.
Corporate
Mofo: Boycott the
RIAA Warning! There are some naughty words here.
New York
Times: RIAA
accuses P2P of pushing porn (registration) Isn't that what Tipper Gore once
accused the RIAA of!
Businessweek:
Apple:
Reselling iTunes songs 'impractical' More about one man's test of the first
sale principle.
TechTV: Dark
Tip: Block the RIAA. PeerGuardian is a free program that hides your file sharing
from known RIAA informants.
Reuters: Music
Biz to Give File Sharers Amnesty. That seems fishy. PC World: EFF warns everyone
not to take the bait.
Slashdot: RIAA
Sales Compared to Download Statistics
Slashdot: Crippled
CD Deemed Defective in France. We've been saying that all along. If it
won't play, it's a lemon!
CNN Money: Universal
Music Group Reduces CD Prices. One label may be listening to their
customers. It's about time!
90% Crud: Does
the First Sale Right Still Exist? A man is offering to resell a song he
bought at I-Tunes on Ebay. Can he?
BBC: Tough Lessons for Campus
"Pirates" RIAA begins large scale assault on college students.
Cnet: Small Webcasters sue RIAA
Slashdot: Diamonds
and the RIAA The RIAA and DeBeers are both monopolistic cartels afraid of
new technology.
Cnet: File
swapper fights RIAA subpoena "Jane Doe" internet user says it
violates her constitutional privacy rights.
Slashdot: Australian
Court Doubles CD Importers' Fines Warner Music and Universal Music.
RedNova: RIAA
promises not to sue small downloaders. Senator Norm Coleman scares them.
Jesse
Jordan's Website! ChewPlastic.com
Links and discussion boards about the CDs, file trading, and the evil RIAA.
Daniel Peng's Website! We can
send him donations to help pay for his legal battle with the RIAA.
BBC: Record sales
for 'cheap' albums Here's the proof people would buy if the price were
fair.
Slashdot: Ask
a Music Producer/Publicist About Filesharing and the RIAA
EFF: Federal Court Spurns
Recording Industry Enforcement Tactics A small victory for MIT and Boston
College.
ZDnet: Court blocks some
file-trading subpoenas More about the small victory.
Boston
Globe: RIAA
steps up bid to force BC, MIT to name students
Tech TV: KaZaA
CEO Speaks Out.
The Age: ACCC
rejects complaint about copy-control music discs
BBC: Stopping The Pop-Swappers
An article about actual piracy, (counterfeit CDs) not file trading, which we
insist isn't piracy!
The Village
Voice: Circling the
Wagons: Why iTunes Won't Save the RIAA From Pirates, Downloads, Lost Product,
and ill Will
Extreme
Tech: Opinion:
How to Defeat Copy-Protected CDs Don't follow the link to the German
article. It isn't there any more, but the same pictures are available here.
legalaffairs.org:
The
Copyright Cage Bars can't have TVs bigger than 55 inches. Teddy bears can't
include tape decks. Girl Scouts who sing "Puff, the Magic Dragon" owe
royalties. Copyright law needs to change. By Jonathan Zittrain
MP3newswire.net:
Copyrights:
Two-thirds of Adult File Traders Couldn't Care Less If 2/3 of the people
agree that it's not wrong, it shouldn't be illegal.
RedNova: Downloaders
Don't Think of Copyright Laws. Similar to previous story.
Cnet: Colleges
explore legal Net music setups
Slashdot: What
Do You Get When You Buy a CD? Ripped off?
Senator Norm
Coleman (R- Minnesota) launches
investigation into RIAA "piracy" crackdown.
Slashdot: The
RIAA Hit List - A Pattern Emerges?
Hilary
Rosen's successor has been named: Former aide to Senator
Bill Frist, Mitch Bainwol
SFGATE: Pac
Bell's Internet arm sues music industry over file-sharer IDs Take that,
RIAA! Down with the DMCA!
the
inquirer: RIAA will take
2191.78 years to sue everyone
Slashdot: Technical
glitches plague BuyMusic.com
the
inquirer: Abit throws
gauntlet down to RIAA, governments."Keep the RIAA away from your Kazaa
files"
Wired News: How to tell if
the RIAA wants you
M.I.T. and
Boston College stand up to RIAA and refuse
to comply with subpoenas, citing right to privacy. Here's more.
Wired News: Some colleges
collaborating with RIAA
German High
Court says
"nein" to Napster suit
RIAA
carrying making good on their threats: 871 subpoenas
More About RIAA Vs. Princeton
student Dan Peng
Tech TV: RIAA
Wrath Hits Teen The Jesse Jordan Story.
More corporate-owned
Congressmen: Reps. John Conyers (D-Michigan) and Howard Berman (D-California)
want to make file trading a felony, even
for one file. Vote these bums out! Even Michael Jackson
understands how bogus this bill is.
Slashdot: Evaluating
a System for Selling and Delivering MP3s?
More Greed
By Labels. Now they want a
cut of concert revenues even though they are not selling recordings of the
concerts.
RIAA Threats
Backfire! According to this
Washington Post article, file trading is up 10% since the RIAA threatened
to sue individual file traders. Are the teens whom the RIAA covets giving them
the finger?
A Victory! A
Brazilian Consumer sued
Sony and EMI over "copy protected" discs, and won! (translated
from Portuguese with Babelfish) More
info. More
info.
Good News!
Reps Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) and John Doolittle (R-Rocklin) introduce Public Domain Enhancement Act.
Petition to Reclaim
the Public Domain.
EFF
Launches
"Let the Music
Play" Campaign
Senator
Orrin Hatch
advocates "destroying
people's computers." That would be illegal. Can he be censured?
Senator
Sam Brownback Defends Fair Use: Read
More
Congressmen
in bed with RIAA and MPAA: Congressional caucus
targets piracy
A
Must Read: When
Copy Protection Backfires
War
profiteering: Hilary Rosen to write
new Iraq's copyright laws
Trojans,
spoofing, and logic bombs: Who are the pirates again? Software
Bullet Is Sought to Kill Musical Piracy
Harassment:
RIAA
sends threatening instant messages to file traders.
A
Victory for file traders! Court
Rejects Suit Against Web Song-Swappers
CNET: Campus file swappers to pay
RIAA
Clearstatic.org:
Wilco understand the power
of internet distribution
Clearstatic.org:
What is the RIAA and what
does it stand for?
The Daily
Princetonian: New
music rules are needed
MUST READ:
The Internet Piracy Myth
AZOZ.COM: IT'S NOT THEFT! They're Our Damn Ads!!
Christian Science Monitor: Independents' Day
The Age: Copy
protected CDs: artists can be the losers
Detroit Free
Press: Recording
industry has warning: File-sharers have to face the music
L.A. Times: Apple
Reportedly in Talks to Buy Universal Music (free registration required)
CNET: Copyproof
CDs moving to market?
A Good Bill: Congressman Rick Boucher has reintroduced his Digital
Media Consumers' Rights Act (DMCRA, H.R. 107), which The House adjourned
before considering last year. John Doolittle is cosponsoring.
A Call to
Action: Support Congresswoman
Zoe Lofgren's B.A.L.A.N.C.E. Act, a bill to protect the fair use and
personal property rights of consumers, and Senator Ron
Wyden's Digital Consumer Right To Know Act. a bill to require labeling of
any potentially unplayable media.
Shakedown:
Hilary Rosen wants to charge fees to
all ISPs, claiming 'piracy' is the only thing anyone gets broadband for.
Step down:
Hilary Rosen will resign
from her position as RIAA head at the end of the year.
A Small
Victory: Sound Choice Karaoke has
stopped using mediacloq, and is no longer listed as a customer on Suncomm's website. If you
have a computer-based karaoke player, they may have republished your
non-working discs by now without mediacloq, and will replace them. Call them at
1-800-788-4487.
Busted! The big five recording labels, and big three music
retailers have settled out of court for price fixing. Read
More. If you bought music from a retail store during the period of January
1, 1995 through December 22, 2000, you may be entitled to part of the
settlement. Follow
this link to file a claim.
Class
Action: If you bought any of the "copy protected" discs that won't
play in your computer, Follow this link
to the Milberg Weiss Law firm, and join Dickey V. Universal Music Group et.
al, a class action suit against the manufacturers of these defective discs that
frequently use the Compact Disc digital audio logo improperly.
A Sad
Defeat: In the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case, The
US Supreme Court has upheld the Sonny Bono Copyright term extension act.
Uncoveror.com:
Editorial: Who is the public
domain? All of us.
Turnabout: Kazaa
owner sues movie, record firms Charges conspiracy over online
distribution
Janis Ian
Speaks Out:
The Internet
Debacle - An Alternative View
FALLOUT - a follow up to
The Internet Debacle
USA Today:
Music Industry Spins Falsehood
Her Website, Janisian.com
The New York
Times: Twilight
of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented
New York
Daily News: A
music industry case study
Boston
Globe: Clear Channel Concerts
to offer instant CDs of shows
CNET: Labels
battle to hold onto DMCA win
ITworld.com:
EC allows music
downloading in antipiracy proposal
Salon: Embrace
file-sharing, or die
CNET: Perspective:
The new jailbird jingle
Economist.com