Word: riaa
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...RIAA, the music industry's main trade group, announced that Wednesday that it is dropping its lawsuits over the Rio portable MP3 player. The end of litigation comes after a San Francisco federal appeals court ruled in June that the Rio is not subject to 1992 federal anti-piracy laws...
...course) software program called MP3 (Mpeg1 Layer 3) to receive and send music over the Internet. The pirated tunes have sound quality comparable to that of CDs, and can even be channeled through conventional stereo systems. "The Internet has made music so vulnerable," says Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) general counsel Cary Sherman, "[that] if it were left to go unchecked, you would eventually reach a point where the pirate market would supplant the real market...
Soon after, the RIAA found his site--which contained 250 songs--and informed Rudenstine of his violations...
...news release posted on the Internet, Hilary Rosen, president and chief executive of RIAA, said: "Copyright is an American tradition that dates back to our Constitution because it reflects our values...
According to Franklin M. Steen, director of computer services for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, RIAA sent similar letters to a number of other university presidents...