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RIAA Bears Its Nasty Green Fangs - Ensuing Bad Breath Kills Local Bass Player

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2008-01-31 18:04:19 by Stephany in Gaming Today
...RIAA s wrath descending upon you, be aware that you are still not safe from their bloody, wretched maw.The RIAA has decided that the current statutory damages allowed under copyright law, are not strict enough and it is trying to push a fine of $1.5 million for every CD that is downloaded. This new fine was added to a US House committee bill...
 
Tags: riaa, gestapo riaa, civil damages, damages, house committee bill, bill, song, hanson song, current statutory damages
 
 
 
 
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Is the RIAA Going Bye-Bye?

2008-01-15 21:15:04 by admin in Video Games Blog
 
...RIAA. Ars cites a Variety article which holds that EMI will pull out of both the RIAA and the IFPI (U.K. version) by March 31st. The loss of EMI funding would be a huge blow to the RIAA The rub for the record label seems to be primarily philosophical. From the Ars Technica report EMI has been unhappy with the trade groups work for some time...
 
Tags: riaa, time emi, emi, digital music, digital music downloads, industry association, ars technica reports, major record labels, digital consumers
 
 
 
 
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Is the RIAA Going Bye-Bye?

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2008-01-15 11:08:20 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...RIAA. Ars cites a Variety article which holds that EMI will pull out of both the RIAA and the IFPI (U.K. version) by March 31st. The loss of EMI funding would be a huge blow to the RIAA The rub for the record label seems to be primarily philosophical. From the Ars Technica report EMI has been unhappy with the trade groups work for some time...
 
Tags: riaa, time emi, emi, digital music, digital music downloads, industry association, ars technica reports, major record labels, label
 
 
 
 
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RIAA: Ripping CDs to your hard disk is illegal

2007-12-31 04:47:54 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
 
...RIAA. "The basic principle in the law is that you have to distribute actual physical copies to be guilty of violating copyright. But recently, the industry has been going around saying that even a personal copy on your computer is a violation In a different case, Sony BMG's chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, said. that "when an individual...
 
Tags: industry, music industry, music, riaa, music piracy, copy, illegal, hard disk, personal copy
 
 
 
 
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RIAA: Illegal to Copy CDs to Hard Drive

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2007-12-31 16:45:13 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...RIAA has initiated a federal case against Jeffrey Howell for copying his own legally purchased CDs to his hard drive for his own personal use The Washington Post reports Sony BMGs chief of litigation, Jennifer Pariser, testified that when an individual makes a copy of a song for himself, I suppose we can say he stole a song. Copying a song...
 
Tags: hard drive, drive, illegal, cds, wii hard drive, illegal copies, copy, riaas legal crusade, washington post reports
 
 
 
 
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ESA Hires Former RIAA Exec

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2008-08-19 15:20:37 by Earnest Cavalli in Wired: Game|Life
...RIAA's quest to sue every filesharer they can find into oblivion will no doubt bristle at Doroshow's appointment, though the ESA has yet to reveal what role Doroshow will play in their day to day affairs We've got our fingers crossed against the "mass litigation" option See Also LucasArts Leaves ESA Activision, Vivendi Quit ESA Activision...
 
Tags: esa, lucasarts leaves esa, role, role doroshow, doroshow, vivendi quit esa, day, mass litigation, senior counsel
 
 
 
 
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Obama VP has Record of Voting Against Tech

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2008-08-26 18:11:20 by Shawn Sines in Gaming Today
...RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)s draconian measures against consumers Biden became a staunch ally of Hollywood and the recording industry in their efforts to expand copyright law. He sponsored a bill in 2002 that would have make it a federal felony to trick certain types of devices into playing unauthorized music or...
 
Tags: obama, barack obama, record, motion picture association, industry association, industry, america, expand copyright law, bill
 
 
 
 
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RIAAs Latest Craziness: Illegal to Copy CDs to Hard Drive

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2007-12-31 15:26:57 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...RIAA has taken a new - and wildly outrageous - position. In a lawsut against an Arizona man who refused to knuckle under to a menacing letter from the RIAA, the organization asserts that it is illegal to transfer music from a CD one has purchased to ones own computer From the Washington Post report Sony BMGs chief of litigation, Jennifer...
 
Tags: copy, riaas legal crusade, sony bmgs chief, song, washington post report, record companies, industry association, wildly outrageous, download music
 
 
 
 
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Amicus Brief Filed in Opposition to California Video Game Law

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2008-02-28 13:14:19 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...RIAA Read the amicus brief here (pdf Yee was an Assemblyman at the time the video game bill was passed and signed into law. He was elected to the California Senate in 2006 Full Disclosure Dept: The Entertainment Consumers Association is the parent company of GamePolitics
 
Tags: law, association, entertainment software association, entertainment consumers association, california law, video game law, national association, media coalition, california
 
 
 
 
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And The Award For Greatest Video Game Canine Goes To

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2008-03-07 18:06:11 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer