Friday may mark a significant milestone in the RIAA’s legal campaign against file-sharing, as it is the deadline for exonerated RIAA defendant Tanya Andersen to refile her malicious prosecution lawsuit against the record labels. Soon afterwards, discovery will begin, and all sorts of unsavory details about the RIAA’s legal campaign against suspected file-sharers are likely [...]

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Of all the major record labels out there, it’s been Universal Music, the largest record label out there, that has been the most vocal about its contempt for changes in the market place. In the past, we’ve mentioned that Universal Music CEO Doug Morris appears to be focused on squeezing every immediate dime out of [...]

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We recently wrote about how the US gov’t has been saying repeatedly that it won’t let Russia into the WTO if Allofmp3 comes back to life. This does seem rather ridiculous for a variety of reasons. After all, within Russia, the company has been found to be legal. And, secondly, it’s not [...]

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I previously wrote about this story from last week and it seems that the IFPI wants their domain back. Ars Technica has word on what has happened since the initial domain conquest (arrrr). Some excerpts below:
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry has taken up a new battle against pirates, but this one is different [...]

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Source for this post is Techcrunch:
Since reporting Monday that Nine Inch Nails had dumped its record label and was to offer future albums direct to the public, Oasis and Jamiroquai have also joined the move away from the record industry, but the biggest announcement of all is news today that Madonna has dumped the record [...]

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The new Amazon MP3 Store looks like no previous iTunes Store rival. The music is completely DRM-free, encoded at a very respectable 256 kbps, includes a ton of songs from major record labels, and offers terrific software support for Mac OS X.When you purchase singles, you can download them directly via your web browser. When [...]

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ThePirateBay has been digging through the enormous chunk of leaked email from MediaDefender, the sleazy enforcers used by the entertainment industry to fight P2P, and they’ve discovered evidence of illegal sabotage. So they’re suing all the big movie and record comapnies in Sweden:

* Twentieth Century Fox, Sweden AB
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It’s no secret that the record labels face a chronic inability to innovate in their business models, choosing instead to continually repackage content and seek ways to force people to buy stuff they don’t want in order to get the things they do want. It’s this sort of thinking which has brought about the “ringle”: [...]

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It looks like the long, litigious saga of AllofMP3 is about to take yet another turn, with the company is now promising to resume its music download service following a recent Russian court ruling in its favor. While it apparently isn’t quite ready to get all that specific, the company has posted [...]

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An anonymous reader writes “It seems that the most recent DVDs released by Sony — specifically Stranger Than Fiction, Casino Royale, and The Pursuit of Happyness — have some kind of ‘feature’ that makes them unplayable on many DVD players. This doesn’t appear to be covered by the major media yet, but this link to [...]

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