The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) successfully sued Jamie Thomas for sharing twenty-four mp3s on p2p network Kazaa. The jury awarded the major labels represented by the RIAA $80,000 per song, totaling 1.92 million dollars.
Thomas is going to continue the fight, and said that this case is “one for the RIAA, not the end of the war.” She also commented on the damages: “Good luck trying to get it from me… it’s like squeezing blood from a turnip.” Continue reading...
Swedish music group Advance Patrol was referenced by prosecutors in the Pirate Bay trial, and they aren’t happy about it: Gonza from Advance Patrol explains:
We never asked to be plaintiffs in this case. They used us as scapegoats in a fight in which we don’t wish to participate. We refuse to be used in a war against our fans.
Advance Patrol argues that file sharers are the most dedicated fans of their music, not criminals, and they’ve released their latest album, El Futuro, as a free torrent on Pirate Bay. Continue reading...
Today (12 May), French Parliament approved a bill that will cut Internet connections of repeat file sharers after “three strikes”. The legislation passed by a vote of 296 to 233 and goes before the French Senate Wednesday, where it is expected to pass. If adopted, warning messages from HADOPI should be sent to file sharing Internet users as early as this fall. The first disconnections will begin in 2010. Continue reading...
In a landmark ruling, the Stockholm district court found the Pirate Bay’s operators guilty of breaking copyright law, sentencing Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Carl Lundström and Peter Sunde to one year in jail and $3.6 million in fines to be paid to a number of entertainment companies, including Warner Bros, Sony Music Entertainment, EMI, and Columbia Pictures. Continue reading...
On 28 February 2009, ‘Section 92′ of the Copyright Amendment Act will come into effect in New Zealand. The act states that any Internet user accused of sharing copyright works is automatically guilty, and the punishment is abrupt disconnection from the Internet.
From the act:
Read more...“An Internet service provider must adopt and reasonably implement a policy that provides for termination, in appropriate circumstances, of the account with that Internet service provider of a repeat infringer.”
A federal judge is denying the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) request to appeal his decision granting a retrial in the RIAA’s only file sharing case to go to trial.
The U.S. District Judge, Michael Davis, of Minnesota, declared a mistrial in the Jammie Thomas case, months ago, and nullified the jury’s $222,000 award against the Minnesota woman for sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa network. The RIAA tried to appeal; a motion the judge rejected for the same reason he declared a mistrial.
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Social network Facebook banned Project Playlist on Tuesday, just days after MySpace also removed the fast-growing music-sharing startup over a copyright infringement scare.
Facebook has removed the Project Playlist app from Facebook and all embedded playlists from user profiles. The company said in a statement that it hopes Project Playlist can come to an agreement with the labels so the app can return to the website.
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