Tag archive: recording industry association of america

Most smartphones don’t have FM radios. But you won’t hear many iPhone users bemoaning the lack of loudmouth radio jocks and lengthy commercials when they have streaming services like Pandora, Last.fm and Slacker pumping out listener-tailored tunes for free. Internet radio has bitten off a chunk of traditional radio’s business, and the broadcasting industry knows it. In an effort to corral more people back into FM, the industry now wants to the… Read More

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,… Read More

“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… Read More

Quote from the article: “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… Read More

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… Read More

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.

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… Read More

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… Read More

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.

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.

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.

Investigators working for the Australian Recording Industry Association raided the offices of Sharman Networks, makers of Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing software, Friday searching for evidence linking the company to copyright infringement, the company says. The company was served with a “search and seize” order issued by a judge at the Federal Court of Australia. The homes of two Sharman executives were also searched, according… Read More

In a surprise setback for the recording industry, a U.S. appeals court said Friday its methods for tracking down those who copy its music over the Internet are not authorized by law. The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group, has sought to force Verizon Communications and other Internet service providers to reveal the names of customers it suspects may be copying music without permission. The recording industry says the… Read More

The firm's research revealed that the number of paying music downloaders doubled in the first half of 2003

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