The RIAA has appealed to the court system to disallow the Web Cast streaming of the proceedings in the forthcoming case against Joel Tenenbaum. Their argument? They are afraid the results would be edited out of context and make them look bad.
Really?
How can they possibly look an worse? Considering that they have waged a [...]
A Harvard law professor has filed a counterclaim in the case of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, et al. v. Joel Tenenbaum. The counterclaim insists that the suit originally filed against Mr. Tenenbaum was illegal and unconstitutional.
Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson insists that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act of [...]
With increasing frequency, colleges and universities around the country are telling the RIAA to find other ways to identify file sharing students. In the past the colleges have collaborated with the RIAA (much like the French collaborated with the Nazis) when the burden was light.
But as the RIAA has increased their demands for [...]
The RIAA has suffered some humiliation recently. Their crack investigators are being hounded as unlicensed charlatans in many states, Universities everywhere are regretting past collaborations, and the courts are getting a feel for the law and starting to rule against them.
The most recent incident involves their wrongful case against the disabled single mother, Tanya [...]
There is a lot of attention focused this past week on the RIAA and their continued crusade against music piracy. Most of this attention has been negative in nature and this most recent example is no different.
It seems that Central Michigan University has filed a a complaint with the Michigan Department of Labor [...]
The RIAA has come up with a new, improved sliding price scale that they’ll be charging students accused of P2P file sharing. If the student engages the RIAA legal team in any way, the cost of the settlement jumps from $3000 to $7000 or even $8000.
It sounds to me like the RIAA is [...]
Today, May 16, 2008 will likely be the RIAA’s Pearl Harbor. On this day, (a day that will live in infamy for the cruelly manhandled recipients of RIAA extortion letters), a U.S. District Court Judge, Michael Davis noted in a brief that he gave erroneous instructions to the jury and might require a [...]
The RIAA has contended that the simple act of making music files available to file sharing programs like KaZaA constitutes infringement.
In fact, in this particular case, Atlantic v. Howell, Judge Neil V. Wake had originally granted the RIAA a summary judgement against the Howell’s. This judgement was based upon the premise that [...]
In Christianity we are supposed to live under a series of rules. Some of these rules have been codified for us in the 10 Commandments, while others are more like suggestions that illustrate a way to live.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus used the expression ‘Turn the Other Cheek’ to illustrate a [...]
It looks like the RIAA is losing favor with at least one of its corporate sponsors. Recently EMI was purchased by the private equity firm Terra Firma and the new owners are finalizing plans to reduce its financial help to both the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the International Federation of the [...]
In what has to be the the worst case of Christian hypocrisy I’ve seen since Ted Haggard, Left Behind Games has decided to sue bloggers who post bad reviews of their poorly reviewed “convert or die” videogame Left Behind: Eternal Forces. Both Gameology and Daily Kos have received boilerplate letters from some [...]
