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Good thing Jack Valenti's already dead, because this would kill him: Ripping DVDs now legal thanks to a new exemption in the DMCA.
By: dave
Tuesday, Jul 27th 2010 (6:18am)
Have a look at hard numbers and the spiraling trend in RIAA label sales. Rather than use their dwindling funds on innovating their model to embrace the tech that's killing them, they're resorting to re-recording chicanery to try and stave off the flood of artists who are reclaiming their copyrights from the bigs. 2013 will be a huge year in music, as the parasitic dinosaur that is the RIAA will have their house of remaining assets crumble beneath their greedy feet.
Change dam you, change!
The founders of The Pirate Bay have been found guilty, with a year of prison time and $3.5m in fines to boot. TPB may disappear with the ruling, but the vacuum will surely be filled with something else quickly.
By: dave
Friday, Apr 17th 2009 (5:27am)
They've got a new 3-strikes-you're-out policy enforced by ISP's in their pocket - not great, but still an improvement.
By: dave
Friday, Dec 19th 2008 (5:41am)
Now, apart from searching for bombs and knives, the TSA will be poring over your laptops and ipods looking for pirated media.
By: dave
Tuesday, Jul 29th 2008 (6:39am)
Piracy is clearly the death of the movie industry, seeing is how they posted bigger profits in 2007 than they have in the 5 years previous. That 9.63 billion in box office receipts certainly proves that nobody goes to movie theaters anymore, opting instead to watch bootleg first-runs on their computertrons, probably while shooting up that marijuana and planning the overthrow of freedom with their pinko terrorist buddies.
By: dave
Thursday, Mar 6th 2008 (5:18am)
It seems that none of the money the RIAA has extorted from fans has ever made it back to the artists, and they're starting to get pissy about it.
By: dave
Monday, Mar 3rd 2008 (3:44am)
Hollywood laid much of the blame for illegal movie downloading on college students. Now, it says its math was wrong.
By: dave
Wednesday, Jan 23rd 2008 (4:13am)
Longtime market analyst The Motley Fool has begun warning investors to avoid sinking money into the record industry. The end is truly near.
By: dave
Friday, Jan 4th 2008 (4:47am)
Now it seems Gene Simmons blames college kids for music industry woes.
The most important part is the music. Without that, why would you care?
By: ZiB
Friday, Nov 16th 2007 (11:51am)
The new Higher Education Bill requires that the Universities stop all P2P downloads that RIAA doesn’t like AND buy Napster or Rhapsody subscriptions for every student on the campus or lose all federal financial aid.
Jeez, have some special interest group influence, huh?
By: dave
Tuesday, Nov 13th 2007 (5:34am)
In court yesterday, a representative of the RIAA admitted that their 'let's sue the customers' campaign isn't exactly breaking even like they claim, but is in fact a money pit, costing them millions to occasionally retrieve thousands.
By: Dave
Wednesday, Oct 3rd 2007 (6:34am)
So, in case you missed it, last week a company called MediaDefender which assists the RIAA by clogging the p2p networks with dummy files and strongarming the weak accidentally leaked 700 megs of internal emails. The emails contained not only many of their nefarious plots and schemes, but also personal information on their employees and associates - names, addresses, social security numbers, and so on.
Naturally, the leaked emails spread like wildfire on the torrent sites. Well, MediaDefender has just puked out a spate of takedown notices and legal threats to anyone who will listen, but all they're getting in response is ridicule and abuse.
By: Dave
Thursday, Sep 20th 2007 (6:06am)
Iron Maiden is about to release a bunch of DRM-less music for free with the help of Burger King.
By: Dave
Wednesday, Jul 25th 2007 (6:52am)
You may or may not have noticed that today is Fair Use Day - show some solidarity with your anti-DRM brethren and snap up a couple of these snazzy shirts from TorrentFreak!
By: Dave
Wednesday, Jul 11th 2007 (7:05am)
Nice piece in the Rolling Stone about how the record industry is dying by its own hand.
By: Dave
Thursday, Jun 28th 2007 (6:50am)
By now you've no doubt heard about the HD DVD key that's spread like a rash across the web, much to the dismay of the MPAA and their ilk. If you google the first couple of numbers, you'll get a half a million results.
One of them is today's wootcast. Excellent.
By: Dave
Thursday, May 3rd 2007 (6:36am) (more) [Comments: 0]
Not only has the University of Nebraska been unwilling to help the RIAA track down and extort infringers on their campus, they have just presented the RIAA with a bill for wasted time and resources associated with dealing with the group's demands.
They'll never collect on it, I'm sure, but FUCK YEAH nonetheless.
By: Dave
Friday, Mar 23rd 2007 (12:03am)
Tough day for the RIAA. Besides Steve Jobs announcing that he's through with DRM, Judge Lee R. West has ordered that the RIAA must pay the defendant's legal fees if they cannot prove copyright infringement in their frivolous lawsuits.
The bully's going down.
By: Dave
Wednesday, Feb 7th 2007 (5:18am)
Well now they're coming for your home theater.
I know it's been said many times, many ways, but fuck the MPAA. 
By: Scott
Tuesday, Nov 28th 2006 (1:48pm)
Now they done it. The RIAA finally sued the wrong person - a multimillionaire CEO who has vowed to fight them in court. He's willing to spend millions to win the precedent and strike the killing blow.
Shawn Hogan, you da MAN.
By: Dave
Wednesday, Jul 26th 2006 (1:27am)
Ok, so you're pounding down cheese fries at a Stuckey's, or knocking back some pre-flight courage in the airport bar, and you notice an RIAA fatcat sitting next to you, puffing a hundred dollar cigar and polishing his monacle with a kitten pelt. WHATDOYOUDO???
Ask some hard questions that decidedly need answering, and watch 'em stammer out the company line.
By: Dave
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