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 […]