AllofMp3.com Sued for $1.65 Trillion!

The RIAA (yes, I was just as shocked as you ;) ) is suing the website AllofMP3.com on behalf of EMI, Sony BMG, Universal Music, and Warner Music in the amount of $150000 for each of the 11 million songs that were downloaded from June to ...

December 22nd, 2006
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AllofMP3.com Gone Forever? Maybe Not

It's been one tough journey for AllofMP3.com as the RIAA slowly sucked all life out of their music service based in Russia. Their woes actually started years ago, but more recently you probably remember the $1.65 trillion ($150000 per ...

July 3rd, 2007
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riaa creates website for college students to settle

the riaa is back at it again! and this time, instead of going after younger kids and teens, they're going after college students. they are taking a different route with the college students by trying to persuade them to settle the ...

March 1st, 2007
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riaa forks out 50000 in legal fees / thinks cd prices should be ...

the riaa goes on to talk about how the quality and the number of songs has increased, and so has the range of choices, and ease of use, yet the price hasn't, so really people are getting a great value. in the world of technology, ...

February 7th, 2007
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riaa says students must pay $3000 to settle

last week, the riaa announced that they were taking a different route with college students who they accuse of downloading songs via p2p networks illegally. instead of filing lawsuits and taking them to court right away, ...

March 9th, 2007
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riaa sues (again), teen fights back!

the riaa sued a 16 year old new yorker for piracy , and now he's fighting back. that's the story in the a nutshell, but there's so much more to it. together with his lawyer, robert santangelo is defending himself and making a case ...

February 1st, 2007
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another riaa victim fights back

it is well-known that the riaa aggressively files lawsuits when they feel they have evidence that someone is pirating music. back in february we reported that a 16 year old boy from new york was being sued by the riaa for piracy, ...

July 11th, 2007
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Comment on RIAA Walks Away With a Win by Ryan

David wrote: On an extra note I'd be interested to know if the riaa have ever prosecuted someone for sharring a cd with a friend. That would be interesting to know. I doubt that's probably happened though, but I'm sure people have got ...

October 7th, 2007
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Comment on What NOT to do when the RIAA Comes to your Door by Ben

“they have to be PROVEN guilty. ” You don't seem to know much about the American legal system in practice.

September 29th, 2008
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Comment on RIAA Walks Away With a Win by Ryan

If this is the one I just read about in my paper she not only has to pay the $222K but the legal fees for the RIAA which means she is going to end up paying out close to a half million dollars. That makes it even worse. ...

October 5th, 2007
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MPAA's List Of Shame – Top Piracy Schools

And as Ars Technica points out, there are 10 schools that have the honor of appearing on both the RIAA, and the MPAA's list with Purdue having the highest ranking for both schools at #2 for the RIAA, and #5 with the MPAA. Nice work. ...

April 2nd, 2007
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riaa drops the allofmp3 $1.65 trillion dollar lawsuit

remember all of the fuss that the riaa made over allofmp3? they sued the russian music website for a whopping $1.65 trillion back in december of 2006, and now that lawsuit has been dropped. yes dropped. the riaa has walked away from ...

May 27th, 2008
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Download Music from Last.fm, Pandora, and More

I know, if you download illegal songs the RIAA will come over to your house and walk around your yard screaming “for the love of God, I have a Rolls Royce to pay for!” :). What do you use to download songs from your favorite sites? ...

January 3rd, 2008
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uTorrent 1.7 Now in a Stable Form

It would be interesting if someone could analyse the code to see if the buy-out had had any impact on this program, i.e. RIAA/MPAA spy code, DRM etc. Well someone should do a thorough analysis and bring out the truth. ...

July 13th, 2007
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Download uTorrent 1.7 Beta

But tell the truth BitComet has become quite the resource hog itself in the last few versions. The only thing is that I'm reluctant to try uTorrent now that Bittorrent is in bed with the MPAA and RIAA. ...

April 5th, 2007
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Ringles = Singles and Ringtones all in One

The term Ringles was approved by none other than the RIAA who also designed a logo to help "brand" it. As mentioned, a Ringle will include three songs. One will be an original version of a song, the second will be a remix, and the third ...

September 10th, 2007
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