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RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet AgainA few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the past, though these charges have always been dismissed. In one such case, where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed again charging the RIAA with racketeering for extortion, mail fraud and... |
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U of Tennessee blocked P2P sites before RIAA lawRIAA didn't need a law to persuade Tennessee, the home of country music, to block P2P sites back in August. ... |
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BitTorrent and NZB Sites Fight Back Against ‘Intimidation'Last week TorrentFreak reported that South Africa’s answer to the RIAA had taken down the country’s largest torrent site and an affiliated Usenet NZB site. According to the lawyer representing the sites for free, the recording industry had no standing to make a complaint. Furthermore,... |
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RIAA Announces Ban on Telling Friends About SongsThe Recording Industry Association of America announced Tuesday that it will be taking legal action against anyone discovered telling friends, acquaintances, or associates about new songs, artists, or albums. ... |
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Students Dropping Out Of School To Pay RIAA Settlement Fees?You may recall a couple years ago that an RIAA representative suggested that an MIT student should drop out of school and get a job in order to pay the fine it was demanding she pay for sharing some music. Now, according to the associate dean of student development at the University of Wisconsin... |
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RIAA defendant enlists Harvard Law prof, studentsAnother file-sharing case is moving to trial, but the defendant has recently picked up some powerful allies: a Harvard Law prof and his class of students. Together, they argue that the entire underpinnings of the RIAA campaign are flawed and unconstitutional. ... |
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