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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

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

Pollara also reported that 52 per cent of music “consumers” who don't download had purchased music in the past month. Only 35 per cent of those who were active downloaders had purchased music in the month prior to the survey. The survey was commissioned by the Canadian Recording Industry Association, which has been claiming for several years that trading music files on-line has been hurting sales. Read more at Globe… 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.

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.

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

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