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RealNetworks: MPAA Is ‘Price-Fixing Cartel’
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| RealNetworks is upping the ante in litigation seeking to prevent it from
| distributing DVD-copying software. The company argues the Hollywood studios
| are a “price-fixing cartel” that have no right to prevent consumers from
| duplicating the movie discs.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/realnetworks-mpaa-is-a-price-fixing-cartel/
RealNetworks accuses MPAA of antitrust violations
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| RealNetworks has accused the major film studios of antitrust violations in
| documents filed Wednesday with a federal court.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10240490-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Recent:
Internet radio strikes deal with music Mafiaa
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| Previously, online radio stations would pay $0.000768 for each copyrighted
| tune they played, but in 2007 the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) tried to
| increase that figure by up to 1,200 per cent, which sent many a well-loved
| wibblecaster scurrying for the hills.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/09/24/internet-radio-strikes-deal
RIAA Sued For Racketeering Yet Again
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| A few people have filed lawsuits against the RIAA for racketeering in the
| past, though these charges have always been dismissed. In one such case,
| where the filed charges were dismissed over the summer, new claims were filed
| again charging the RIAA with racketeering for extortion, mail fraud and wire
| fraud in its ongoing efforts involving weakly supported threats against
| alleged file sharers demanding money to avoid being sued.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081121/1203512916.shtml
Related:
An Oregon Woman's Lawsuit against the RIAA, Alleging Racketeering and Malicious
Prosecution
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| however, that the RIAA is, at a minimum, very foolish to press suits
| for purported file-sharing against unlikely defendants like Andersen -
| who alleges that she came forward with solid proof of her innocence.
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http://writ.news.findlaw.com/ramasastry/20070628.html
Grandmother targets RIAA ‘investigators’
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| Taking a page out of Tanya Andersen’s book, Hurricane Rita survivor
| Rhonda Crain is also targeting the RIAA practice of using
| unlicensed ‘investigators’ in its bizarre sue ‘em all marketing
| campaign.
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http://www.p2pnet.net/story/12674
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