When corporations are the law…
Hillary Rosen, the CEO of the RIAA (Records Industry Association of America) wants ISP’s and telecommunication companies to pay a fee for giving customers access to music swapping software.
This way the RIAA wants to recoup all lost sales and money because of music piracy. Next to that Hillary mentioned on the Midem music conference that more CD’s should be protected against piracy and licensing restrictions and download services by subscription should also be taken care about; She urged this to the major record labels like BMG, Sony music, Warner music, EMI and Universal.
Tags: bad mkay, RIAA
Posted in Record Industry |
BMG decides to make copyprotected CD’s only!
Bertelsmann (BMG Music) will stop to sell uncrippled CD’s. This means such cd’s will not play at certain older & newer CD players, certain car players and will not play in your computer. This for the price of 20US$ to 22US$ per CD !
Tags: bad mkay, BMG, DRM
Posted in Record Industry |
RIAA allowed to hack?
According this article the RIAA (record industry) tried to have a hacking-authorization against all music swappers. They like to be judge, jury and executioner at once?
Tags: Legal, RIAA
Posted in Legal, Record Industry |
Napster down, other to follow!
According to this story the RIAA is going to sue the dutch company Kazaa together with Morpheus and Grokster. This internal memo show the record label’s findings and strategy to battle P2P networks. There is also a letter from the RIAA president to the industry leaders about this matter.
Tags: RIAA
Posted in Legal, Record Industry |
