Tag Archive for the term: riaa

At last the death knell begins to sound for the relatively ridiculous idea of DRM or Digital Rights Management, and Itunes gets to take another leap forward, for better or worse, according to this article from the Wired blog:
After years of fits, starts, threats and ultimatums, Steve Jobs and three major labels have come to [...]

This finally starts to sound like the right way to tackle the RIAA’s numbskullery with regards to prosecuting filesharers. Because what seems clear to me is that multi-billion dollar corporations bullying students and other low income individuals to stop them sharing is indeed unconstitutional.
Add to this ridiculously unfair situation a truly scary gulf between [...]

Well, we blogged a lot of these Canadian ideas about music licensing during POP and Policy and they seem to be making their way into the mainstream debates down south, if only as a foil to the hamfisted madness of current sue-the-music-lover practices. Not usually one to be dubious about utopia (I’m pro-utopia!) I have [...]

I found this great year end list with loads of Mp3’s on the Berkeley Place blog (Wordpress based, like Indyish!), an excellent and argumentative place for indie hiphop music lovers. The author combs the internet and does obsession-sized posts full of music and sometimes gets angry legal letters from the RIAA. He’s definitely someone who’s [...]

Remember I mentioned Jammie Thomas? Well, she’s appealing so maybe the RIAA haven’t won yet.

Wired’s Luddite seems to agree she’s getting a raw deal, and commented on all the bad press the RIAA has been getting for going after her (and the 20 000 other individuals they have cases lined up against). He clearly [...]