According to CNET’s Greg Sandoval, internet service providers such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon are working with media groups such as the RIAA and MPAA to adopt stricter anti-piracy policies which gradually increase the consequences for illegally downloading and distributing copyrighted material.
GhostTown is a music aggregating app that’s definitely worth a peek – assuming it doesn’t violate some part of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that the RIAA would inevitably use to destroy it.
While many judges around the country are throwing out file sharing lawsuits on account of questionable or faulty arguments, DC federal judge Beryl Howell just recently allowed three cases filed by copyright holders to proceed. What makes it intriguing is that she used to be a former RIAA lobbyist.
Jammie Thomas has been fighting the RIAA in court since 2006 over 24 songs she illegally downloaded via Kazaa. A third verdict in the case handed down today awards record companies $US1.5 million in damages, or $US62,500 per song.
KISS frontman Gene Simmons, besides being a rock god, is the biggest blowhard on the planet. So when he gets in an internet fight with the 4chan-affiliated internet vigilantes Anonymous… well, you end up rooting for Anonymous.
While they’re back online now, for a while there, both the Motion Picture Association of America and Recording Industry Association of America’s websites were under DDoS attacks from piracy-lovin’ 4chan members.
Ars Technica is reporting that the US National Association of Broadcasters and the RIAA are in talks to strike a compromise that could result in a Congressional mandate to include FM radios in phones and other portable electronics. Thanks, but no thanks?
How much of a failure was the RIAAs campaign of ridiculous lawsuits of file sharers? How does a measly 2 per cent return on a $US58 million investment sound? That’s good business right there.
