RIAA

I am rather stunned and even more skeptical to hear form a P2Pnet article that the RIAA may be dropping its massive sham litigation campaign. The P2Pnet article references this Wall Street Journal article, which states the lawsuit campaign may end. So all is good now right?
I doubt it. As the P2Pnet article points [...]

Thanks to Ray Beckerman for bringing the Expert Witness Fund to my notice via a post post over at his blog.

I was unaware that the donations to the fund were tax deductible. This, however, is a defense fund I am all in favor of.

Another great "rightful" organization to keep in mind’ is the EFF. [...]

8 December 2008 POD - Ian James

Today I chose"Time Keeps Slipping Away" by Ian James. I found him over at Pod Safe Audio.

I also promised to let you know when I heard more on the Santa Claus Live Show. Every day from 5-11PM EST/2-8PMPST from now until Christmas! See ya there!

Thanks for [...]

The p2pnet post and it begins with "Could a new site buying and selling ‘used’ mp3s possibly be a honeypot set up by the RIAA?" I am reading it and, in the back of my head, I am thinking if this "is some kind of hoax?". Bopaboo, as the author makes known, is [...]

Personally, I think that the “explicit lyrics” are an artist’s choice but I like being informed enough to make the choice to mostly stick with SFW material. I think we should take it up a level.
Seriously though, if the Surgeon General can put warning labels on tobacco products to protect our health, why can’t [...]

This is worth a quick post. Joel Tenenbaum who is standing up for himself against the RIAA, now has Facebook Group for support. (I mentioned the Dream Team of Witnesses before.)

Although I am more of a Geeks! person than a Facebook person, I made sure I became the 252nd member of the [...]

I have told you many times it will never stop. Like a nightmare that you can’t awake from the Gestapo RIAA continues its sham litigation reign of terror. This time it is after nineteen-year-old Ciara Sauro. She, as do almost all, says she did nothing wrong. The girl’s mother, according to P2P, [...]

Earlier this week, I posted an editorial about how I was getting bored with the suit counter-suit thing regarding the RIAA. This case, delayed, hopefully due to good legal fear, is far from that. The suit involving Tenenbaum is shaping up like a Perry Mason episode.

It is the list of defense witnesses that [...]

This is going to have to be part of a series kind of post. A good while back I scribbled a post March being Boycott the RIAA Month. In it, I mentioned a few places to seek DRM free and legal music. I still get asked where I find material very [...]

I have often believed that it stood for "Racketeering Idiots Association of Absurdity". The RIAA is in another RICO class action suite. This is the second case that Ray Beckerman is aware of.

Mr. Beckerman states that the claims include; RICO, Fraud, Conspiracy, Trespass, Prima Facie Tort, and violation of the Computer Fraud & [...]

Over a year ago now, I put up a post here that supported simply boycotting the RIAA. The post (actually about March being Boycott the RIAA Month) drew a number of comments suggesting other music distribution sources. I included the following short list in that post:

Podsafe Audio - This is my personal [...]

Many ask how I got started on the RIAA stuff. I will cover that later for I never actually blogged about that. Here is how it made me feel. It was originally published July 7, 2003.
First of all I wish to make one thing very clear. I DO NOT endorse, desire, [...]

Good day readers,
Last week was hectic as Hades for me at work. I almost missed this. I promised to at least keep you abreast of the "Pro-IP" Bill. If my memory is correct, I first mentioned the act here in August. It seems the bill has cleared the Senate Judiciary [...]

Yesterday, I got off on a bit of a rant about how I felt about some recent happenings regarding my the the most dislike company in America. I refer to them as the Racketeering Idiots Association of Absurdity but most of you know them as the RIAA.

The post received a few comments and I [...]

I spent the past few evenings, intentionally isolating myself from distraction, at the local library. I had done so because I had a briefcase full of printed documents regarding numerous RIAA cases. I am not going to delve into those matters quite yet but it does seem that the courts have knocked a [...]

One of the things that I tend to follow is the antics of the RIAA.
Personally my favorite resource for this subject is Recording Industry vs. The People. It is one of the feeds I check each and every time I have Google Reader open. Apparently, many others share my interest in this blog.

It [...]

Almost a year ago, I put this post up here about an infant dancing to a song by "some artist with an identity crisis". I also heard that this same artist was a bit upset and had material he performed yanked despite the fact that he did not have rights to the song. [...]

I mentioned the other day that I, and others, thought this day was coming. I think that it is long overdue. It seems the RIAA must now defend itself in a class action suit.

I got news of via this article over at Slashdot. If you have not been following this case you [...]

I am sitting here listening to and half watching the March 10th edition of WebbAlert and I am hearing about a suit filed against the RIAA. Amongst the accusations: electronic trespassing, malicious prosecution, libel, slander, deceptive business practices, and invasion of privacy. Tanya Anderson has already had her day in court to clear her [...]

[Tags]MP3, CD, cassette, music, copyright, piracy, RIAA, opinion, DRM [/tags]

Yesterday, I put a post here that was largely inspired by the comment of a reader on an earlier rant. Before I even conclude the first paragraph, I thank all of you for commenting and the compliments on my article.

Yesterday’s rant had several good comments. [...]