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However, their claims drew fire from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the trade group representing the U.S. recording industry...
What would you do if billions of dollars were stolen from you? Understandably upset by spreading music piracy, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has responded to that question by recently launching another campaign to quash the piracy of copyrighted material on college campuses across the country, which they claim has cost billions of dollars of lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them...
...associate dean for Internet technology, Larry M. Levine. “Our mission is to provide an expensive commodity as equitably as possible.” Berman’s remarks come in the wake of a new initiative launched by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) to combat illegal file sharing on college campuses. With the initiative, the organization is trying to respond to a threefold jump in RIAA warning notices sent to universities this academic year, according to an RIAA press release. “Many schools have turned a blind eye to piracy,” Berman...
...been limited to drug arrests, which are at least conceivably dangerous for officers. What are the chances that a couple of DJs will put up a fight? That didn’t stop the Fulton Country police department from deploying a SWAT team with guns drawn in a RIAA-sponsored copyright violation bust. Or take the South Carolina high school drug sweep where SWAT officers forced kids to lie prone at gunpoint as dogs searched their lockers (no drugs were found...
...necessary to include, one can at least hope that the suited men in Hollywood and New York read through all 300 pages.The two authors criticize the selfishness of the entertainment industry in closely guarding their products. They are obviously not close friends with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), but one can hope that the book’s abundance of positive examples is enough to convince the RIAA that Soulseek and LimeWire are not creations of the devil.“Wikinomics” is not exactly “boring,” per se. But faithful...