According to sources, the RIAA will not pursue legal action if infringers delete all unauthorized music files from their computers, destroy all copies (including CD-Rs) and promise not to upload such material in the future. Each infringing household member will have to send a completed, notarized amnesty form to the RIAA, with a copy of [...]
Archives for September 2003
$12.98 for a new CD.
NEW YORK (Dow Jones) Vivendi Universal’s (V) Universal Music Group plans to sharply lower the consumer cost for compact discs, in an effort to bring customers back into retail stores and boost music sales. Universal Music Group Reduces CD Prices – Sep. 3, 2003 I still think that the main reason for this so called [...]
P2P laws part of University tutoring
As American students arrive in college for the start of the new academic year, they’re finding they have a new lesson to learn: stealing songs is wrong. BBC NEWS | Business | Tough lessons for campus pirates Seeing as students are the people most frequently downloading music/movies from P2P networks, this hardly comes as a [...]
More people fight the RIAA
A US woman accused of sharing music online believes the recording industry illegally investigated her online activities. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | ‘Music pirate’ challenges industry This is the second individual that challenges the lawsuits filed by the RIAA. Here’s hoping more people jump on that wagon, and try and fight back against [...]