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RIAA: Be Careful What You Wish For
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| Various tweets from Minnesota confirm that a federal jury as just returned an
| astonishing verdict of $1,920,000 against Jammie Thomas for downloading 24
| songs. That's $80,000 per song.
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http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2009/06/riaa-be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html
Damages of $1.9 million could backfire on music industry
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| While the recording industry claims strong support in Congress, with powerful
| champions including House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.,
| and his Senate counterpart Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Minneapolis verdict
| could well lead to a legislative move to reduce the damages awards available
| against individual infringers like Thomas-Rasset.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE55K07E20090621
Moby Says 'Disband The RIAA' For Winning $1.92 Million From Jammie Thomas
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| This isn't new territory for Moby. Way back in 2003, he got angry after
| finding out that some of his songs were being used by the RIAA to sue people,
| and stated: "I'm tempted to go onto Kazaa and download some of my own music,
| just to see if the RIAA would sue me for having mp3's of my own songs on my
| hard-drive."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090622/0026265308.shtml
Moby: The RIAA Needs to be Disbanded
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| The two million dollar fine handed out to Jammie Thomas by a Minnesota jury
| this week hasn’t done the music industry’s image much good. While lawyers and
| high level managers at the major labels cracked open the Champagne, artists
| such as Moby and Radiohead shook their heads in shame at what the music world
| has become.
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http://torrentfreak.com/moby-the-riaa-needs-to-be-disbanded-090620/
So Why Can't Major Record Labels Provide Accurate Accounting To Bands?
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| Over the years, that's resulted in many, many accusations from artists that
| the labels are flat out lying about how much an artist actually earns. That's
| why you hear stories of artists selling millions of albums and never seeing a
| dime in royalties or of artists suing record labels because of sneaky
| accounting tricks to hide how much an album has earned.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090619/0323015288.shtml
And Of Course: RIAA Mouthpieces Defend $1.92 Million Judgment
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| Tom Sydnor, from the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), a loud and proud
| supporter of stronger copyright at every turn (and who is well funded by the
| RIAA labels), apparently missed the memo on playing down the number.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090619/1843155298.shtml
Recent:
Universities Struggling To Deal With Law Requiring Them To Fight File Sharing
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| So now what's happening? Well, universities and colleges are wasting a ton of
| time, money and effort to try to comply (found via Michael Scott, who
| notes, "what a waste of resources."). The article talks about how
| universities feel punished for something that isn't even a problem:
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| "We have not received one complaint about one student. Yet now we have to
| go out and incur the cost to solve a problem that we didn't really
| have.... Tying actually capital and operating dollars to it in this
| economy to solve a roblem we don't really have at our scale has been an
| issue."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090618/0337155278.shtml
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