Copyright

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 & [...]

This is just kewl. Jonathan Coulton, likely most known for his tune “Code Monkey,” is doing very pro-CC thing. I have had the good fortune to shoot a few e-mails back and forth with Mr. Coulton. He is a very likable musician and is very much into the Creative Commons philosophy.
According to this [...]

W00t! w00t! w00t!… Seems that sanity has prevailed in this one case at least. A whining baby who seems to have an identity crisis and has lacked a hit song for over a decade has been just lost to a cute, adorable "dancing baby", Holden Lentz. (Source)

Universal had claimed that it was not [...]

It is one of the newest words in the English language and today is a great day to use it. So here I go.. WOOT! I realize that so very often bring only bad news here when I discuss the RIAA, MPAA and copyright issues. Today it is not the case.

Back on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]