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RIAA Sues Deceased Grandmother

The Recording Industry Association of America admitted that Walton was likely not the person they were after, blaming the mixup on the time it takes gather information on illicit fileswappers.

“Our evidence gathering and our subsequent legal actions all were initiated weeks and even months ago,” said RIAA spokesman Jonathan Lamy. “We will now, of course, obviously dismiss this case.”

As BetaNews points out, several people are using this scenario as an example of what’s fundamentally wrong with the RIAA’s tactics.

Read more at BetaNews

RIAA SAles Up 10% While SACD Sales Go Down

“The music industry is showing some signs of a rebound in the first half of 2004, with full-length CD shipments to retail outlets increasing by 10.2 percent, compared to the amount of shipments over the same time period in 2003. This is the first time in five years that the first half of the year has experienced an increase in shipments. DVD music videos and licensed digital downloads also showed impressive growth, according to new data announced today by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).  Read more...

SACD Vs. DVD-Audio Compared

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“It is almost impossible to see the daylight through the clouds of format wars between SACD and DVD-Audio. There are too many opinions to clearly find the solution – which format to choose in comparison with CD-DA and LP.

Statistics are not favorable to the new high definition formats today. According to RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) in 2003 only 0.4 million DVD-Audio disks were sold, 1.3 million – SACD, 1.5 million – LP, and 745.9 million – CD. CD sales reached the peak level in 2000 and are presently experiencing a steep decline. Perhaps the public interest in CD is lowering down because of the phenomenal steady growth of the DVD-Video format – 369.6 million including music DVD in 2003.”  Read more...

Hundreds More Sued For File Swapping

The cases were filed against 213 people in St. Louis, 206 in Washington D.C., 55 in Denver and six in New Jersey, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, the Washington-based trade group that represents the major recording companies.

In all, a total of 3,429 people have been sued by the recording industry since its legal campaign against individual computer users began in September. At least 600 of those cases were eventually settled for roughly $3,000 each. None of the cases has yet gone to trial.

Read the rest of the story at the Star Tribune.

RIAA Sues 493 More Music Swappers

The Recording Industry Association of America has now sued nearly 3,000 individuals since last September in an attempt to discourage people from copying songs through peer-to-peer networks like Kazaa and LimeWire.

The trade group, which represents the five largest recording companies, has settled more than 400 of those cases for around $3,000 each.

Read the full story at CNET News.com.

New Tool Blocks Illegal Song Swapping

Created by software firm Audible Magic and backed strongly by the Recording Industry Association of America, the song-filtering software has already triggered interest in Washington, D.C., along with strong skepticism in the peer-to-peer world and among some students and universities. 
 
Palisade’s new tool is the fruit of a cross-licensing deal struck early in the year, which also gave Audible Magic rights to use Palisade’s network-monitoring technology to offer a similar product. Palisade executives say their university customers in particular are interested in the song-blocking capabilities.

Read the full story at CNET News.com.

Study Shows P2P Not Affecting Music Sales

Contrary to claims made by the Recording Industry Association of America  (RIAA), which has launched a campaign of lawsuits against peer-to-peer (P2P) network users and blamed them for plunging sales , unlicensed downloading and Internet file-sharing of copyrighted music has no effect on CD sales, according to researchers at Harvard Business School and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

The researchers said that although more than 60 million Americans over age 12 have downloaded music and there are more than a billion downloads each week, the popular online activity is not the music-industry scourge the record companies contend it is.  Read more...

Music Sales Decline Slows Down

U.S. music sales continue to decline but the rate of decrease is slowing, according to the Recording Industry Association of America.
 
The industry organization has revealed that sales of recorded music and videos slipped 6 percent to $11.9 billion in 2003. The business saw a 7.1 percent decline in CD sales. However, the rate of decline seems to have slowed, according to the RIAA.

Read more of this story at PC World.

New MyDoom Variant Deletes Files

The new outbreak, known as MyDoom.F, emerged late last week and has been gathering steam ever since.

The virus is programmed to infect personal computers and use them to unleash a crippling digital barrage known as a denial-of-service attack on select Web sites belonging to Microsoft Corp. and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Read more at Reuters.

Record Industry Sues 531 More File-Sharers

The Recording Industry Association of America, which cites digital piracy as a big factor behind a three-year slump in CD sales, said it filed five separate lawsuits against 531 users of undisclosed Internet Service Providers.

The trade group filed four similar suits against 532 illegal file-shares in January.

Read the whole story at Reuters Technology.

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