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UK Study: Illegal Music Downloaders Also Spend The Most On Music

The Independent | Rachel Shields | Posted 10.31.2009 | Technology

Read More: Music Piracy, Internet, Itunes, Piracy, Riaa, Illegal Downloads, Online Music Piracy, Digital Economy Bill, Music, British Phonographic Industry, Bpi, Technology News

People who illegally download music from the internet also spend more money on music than anyone else, according to a new study....

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An Interview with Matisyahu, Plus Barbra Streisand and Brian Setzer Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Matisyahu, Bob Marley, Phish, Hasidic Jew, Entertainment News, Bonnaroo, Reggae, Trey Anastasio, Hip-Hop, Riaa, David Kahne, John Comerford, Greenwich Village, Village Vanguard, Golden Globe Award, Miles Davis, Sonny Dunham, Judy Garland, The Beatles, Benny Carter, Surfdog Records, Doris Day, Stray Cats, Kennedy Center, American Film Institute, Peabody Award, Brian Stezer Orchestra, Film Noir, Orson Welles, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Barbra Streisand, Tony Award, Brian Stezer, The Charlie Daniels Band, Raymond Chandler, Elvis Presley, Cable Ace Award, Jazz, Frank Comstock, Billboard, Grammy Award, Oscar Award, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

Matisyahu's latest album, Light showcases his young, old soul, further exploring musical territories of both the secular and sacred.

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Minnesota Woman Ordered To Pay $1.9 Million For Illegal File-Sharing

Bloomberg | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

Read More: Recording Industry, Illegal Downloading, Riaa, Riaa Lawsuits, Music Downloads, Media News

June 19 (Bloomberg) -- A Minnesota woman accused of swapping music over the Kazaa Internet service was ordered by a jury to pay Vivendi SA's Universal...

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Could Doctors Go the Way of Record Companies?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kevin Kelly, Medical Information Science, Riaa, Information Science, Radical Health Transformation, Journal of Participatory Medicine, Health Gtransformation, P2p, Health Reform, Ama, David Byrne, P2pmed, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Watching the AMA defends its turf on issues like doctor reimbursement is like watching the RIAA file copyright lawsuits against teenagers, even as its business model collapses around it.

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Copyright Needs Limits, As It Restricts Innovation

Gary Shapiro | Posted 06.27.2009 | Business

Read More: Supreme Court, Movie Industry, Consumer-Electronics-Association, Copyright, Riaa, Content Creation, Innovation, Creative Commons, Dvr, Apple, Dell, Qualcomm, Jfk, Cea, Ebay, Sony Betamax, Amazon, Vcr, Fair Use, Google, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Gary Shapiro, mp3s, Congress, Hollywood, Facebook, Tivo, Mark Helprin, Cisco, Piracy, Music Industry, Texas Instruments, Zillow, Hp, Patents, Business News
Gary Shapiro

Defenders of expanded copyright restrictions imply that content owners have been on a losing streak and have few tools at their disposal. Wrong.

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For the Justice Department-RIAA Connection, the Fifth Time is Not The Charm

Gigi Sohn | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Recording Industry, Department of Justice, Copyright, Riaa, Jenner & Block, Intellectual Property, Ip, Ip Law, Justice Department, Intellectual Property Law, Politics News
Gigi Sohn

While there are a number of lawyers and others in the White House and elsewhere with a more balanced view of copyright, having so many recording industry lawyers concentrated in the Justice Department is particularly troubling.

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R.I.P. Seattle P-I: First Major Newspaper to Go Web Only

Shelly Palmer | Posted 04.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Chinese Democracy, Hearst Corp, Kevin Cogill, Shelly Palmer, AT&T, Standards and Poor, Axel Rose, Cisco, Council for Research Excellence, Seattle Post Intelligencer, Media News, Riaa, Mediabytes, Server, Guns N Roses, Media News
Shelly Palmer

The P-I will become an experiment of sorts for Hearst, who will try to figure out whether or not the company can cut overhead and increase ad rev on a web-only model.

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RIAA To Stop Suing Music Swappers

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Illegal Downloading, Riaa, Riaa Lawsuits, Music Downloads, Business News

LOS ANGELES — The group representing the U.S. recording industry said Friday it has abandoned its policy of suing people for sharing songs prote...

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Wired Parodies MPAA, RIAA: Imagine Handbag Industry Association Of America

Wired | David Kravets | Posted 11.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Drm, Mpaa, Digital Rights Management, Riaa, Business News

For starters, handbags would only work in one country. All of a handbag's contents would fall from the bottom at a border crossing, or while on an int...

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TV Upfronts, CNET, and the Facebook, MySpace and Google Data Wars

Jerry Weinstein | Posted 05.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Riaa, Cnet, Google, Youtube, Yahoo, Cablevision, Facebook, Les Moonves, Wnbc, Netflix, Myspace, Cbs, Nbc, Media News
Jerry Weinstein

The US Attorney's Office is using a Terms of Service violation as a way to prosecute. Think of that precedent. How many of us read ToS agreements anyway?

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Digital Music and the Free Market

Max Keiser | Posted 05.02.2008 | Business

Read More: Adam Smith, Cartel, Mpaa, Copyright, Riaa, Swedish PIrate Party, Bernanke, Ashley Alexandra Dupre, Amiestreet.com, Digital Music, Record Companies, George Soros, Eliot Spitzer, Marketing, Business News
Max Keiser

For years, Madonna pretended to be a vamp to make it big. Dupre is an actual hooker scoring big using the indie music site, aimestreet.com, which charges based on user demand.

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RIAA Says No To Transferring Legally Purchased Music From CD To PC

Washington Post | Marc Fisher | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

Read More: RIAA Personal Use, Recording Industry, File Sharing, Music Sharing, Riaa, Media News

Despite more than 20,000 lawsuits filed against music fans in the years since they started finding free tunes online rather than buying CDs from recor...

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