Etiket: Recording Industry Association of America

Big Music and Big Movies will square off once again with Internet file-sharing services Grokster and Morpheus today in a California courtroom over what the “bigs” say is rampant copyright infringement taking place on those networks. A lower court dismissed contentions that the owners of the services should be held responsible for copyright infringements perpetrated…

In a move reminiscent of government tactics used against drug dealers and organized crime, an Australian group working on behalf of the recording industry there raided offices and homes belonging to executives of the Kazaa peer-to-peer (P2P) network operator, Sharman Networks. Using a search order secured from an Australian federal court, the Australian record industry’s…

Sharman Networks has moved to nullify a court order that allowed agents of Australia’s music industry to raid the company’s offices in Sydney last week in search of evidence for a copyright infringement case against the owner and distributor of Kazaa, a popular Internet file-sharing program. The action by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA)–…

Music fans who download songs from the Internet and share them with friends via P2P technology are still at risk for a copyright infringement claim — and massive financial damages — from the recording industry. A ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia late last year heartened many users…

In what a Recording Industry Association of America spokesperson described as “catching up to the pace we were at before,” the RIAA has filed five new suits to ensnare another 531 computer users who allegedly have traded pirate music online. The copyright lawsuit tactic first emerged last year in a spate of subpoenas based on…