Let's just pretend for a minute that the RIAA has come knocking on your door accusing you of using a P2P service to illegally share music, and violating copyrights. Your first instinct is what? If you're Jeffrey Howell, you:

1. Uninstall KaZaa
2. Delete EVERYTHING in the shared folder
3. Reformat the hard drive
4. Download and use a file-wiping program to eliminate all KaZaa logs

If you are

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 trying to get a penny from them saying that "The site is now defunct and out of business, the result of a successful anti-piracy initiative." But is the site

In the music industry, everybody is out for money these days. The artists want their fair share, and so the RIAA is out to make sure that they do, In addition to the artists are the composers and songwriters who want their fair share of money as well, and so the ASCAP is out to make sure that they do. As we've seen in the past, often

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We know that the RIAA has some ideas that are out there, but their latest idea is way out there.  Cary Sherman from the RIAA was recently speaking at the State of the Net Conference and proposed that a new way to combat piracy would

Some of you may not realize it, but record companies (like EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and Universal) pay rather large amounts of money each year to trade groups like the RIAA and the IFPI which funds their operations. In return, these groups support the artists and labels and spend some of their money to help stop piracy. We all know how

Demonoid, a popular invite-only BitTorrent tracker, seems to be swimming in some murky waters lately. At the end of September Demonoid was forced to temporarily shutdown by the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), which is equivalent to America's RIAA. They came back online a few days later after installing a system to block all Canadian traffic.

Now the CRIA is after them again, but this time

In the very first file-sharing case to go before a jury, Jammie Thomas of Minnesota was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay $9,250 for each of the 24 songs that were shared over Kazaa back in 2005. That means she owes the RIAA $222,000 dollars. While that amount of money is ridiculous for 24 songs, it's better than the $150,000 that the RIAA originally