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RIAA in pickle over Jammie Thomas ruling | Media Maverick - CNET News - 0 views

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    Article about the RIAA trying to maintain its image while determining what to do about the Thomas-Rasset copyright infringement case, in which a Brained, MS mother was sued for copyright infringement due to downloading music by the RIAA
kkholland

RIAA Tells FCC: ISPs Need to Be Copyright Cops - PC World - 0 views

  • The U.S. Federal Communications Commission should avoid adopting strict net neutrality rules that would limit broadband providers' flexibly to "address" illegal online file sharing, the Recording Industry Association of America said in comments filed with the FCC on Thursday.
  • The FCC should not only avoid rules prohibiting ISPs from blocking illegal file trading, but it should actively encourage ISPs to do so, the RIAA said.
  • Other groups called on the FCC to stay out of the copyright enforcement business. If ISPs are required to check for copyright infringement, they could interfere with legal online activities, said six digital rights and business groups, including Public Knowledge, the Consumer Electronics Association and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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  • ISPs are "poorly placed to determine whether or not transfers of content are infringing or otherwise unlawful, a task generally reserved to attorneys, courts, and law enforcement," the groups said in a filing with the FCC. "In short, the issue raised by broadening the 'reasonable network management' exception to include copyright enforcement and the blocking of unlawful content is not whether ISPs may undertake these efforts, but rather whether they may inflict collateral damage on lawful traffic when they do so."
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    The RIAA argues ISP's should perform copyright enforcement, and claim Net Neutrality blocks such efforts.
Amber Westcott-baker

Authors Guild: 'To RIAA or Not to RIAA' | Threat Level | Wired.com - 0 views

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    Regarding the Google Books settlement & book digitization project.
chris_seaman

Music Piracy Case will Go to Round 3 - PCWorld - 0 views

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    The music piracy case between the RIAA and Minnesota woman Jammie Thomas-Rasset is set to go to its third trial after Thomas-Rasset rejected a $25,000 settlement offer.
Theresa de los Santos

Authors Guild: We don't want to be the RIAA - 0 views

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    The Authors Guild agreed to a controversial settlement with Google because it feared repeating the mistakes that the music industry has made in dealing with digital works.
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