to police child pornography. Because of Usenet's overall worldwide network structure, the RIAA has had trouble tracking down pirated music sources despite its success with peer-to-peer networks.But now the RIAA celebrates a small victory. 'This decision is...

as the dollar amount was read to the court. The $1.92 million award to the RIAA over the 24 songs works out to be $80,000 per song. This was the outcome of the retrial of the original decision to award the RIAA with $9,250 per song. Apparently, the jury felt...

with a link including a slow SQL query aiming at the RIAA site. Comments on the social networking site suggest that there may have been a second, apparently unrelated attack that wiped the database of the RIAA website using a "simple SQL injection". A SQL injection...

Judge Rejects RIAA Piracy Claims. riaa piracy music. The RIAA was hit with another setback when the district court in Atlantic v. Howell denied the RIAA’s argument of making files available constitutes as illegal distribution. It’s an argument by the RIAA...

their networks. According to the RIAA employee, on occasions the RIAA will send out “prelitigation settlement letters” to the alleged pirates demanding thousands of dollars as an alternative of going to court. If this happens, as a courtesy act, the RIAA...

fight against the RIAA. While the amount sounds impressive, it is approximately one-third of the $298,995 that Andersen had demanded. Federal Magistrate John Acosta reviewed the fees request after the RIAA dropped their lawsuit of illegally downloading music...

RIAA) said that it has dropped all legal action against the Russian music download site AllofMP3.com, since the service has gone out of business. Bowing to the pressure of the RIAA, the Russian government has shut down the site after U.S. officials said the...

RIAA Urges Judge To Leave $222,000 Sentence Against Thomas Intact. RIAA piracy. You may remember the $222,000 fine imposed on Jammie Thomas for illegally sharing music files - and you may not be surprised to hear that the proceedings are still not done.....

Judge Moves for Retrial in RIAA/Jammie Thomas Case. RIAA Jammie Thomas Trial. A federal Judge has thrown out a verdict that would have seen 30 year old Jammie Thomas pay over $200,000 to the RIAA for illegal file sharing.. A federal Judge has thrown out a...

RIAA will still use the same questionable process of investigating file sharing activity, and will contact each ISP directly with the identifying information. Ultimately, as the Washington Post initially described, the RIAA has tossed out its need for the government...