The Motion Picture Association of America tells the judge in the Jammie Thomas case that making a song available on a P2P network should count as infringement; proving that actual distribution took place is "often very difficult" and even "impossible."
RIAA Also Tells Judge That Proof Shouldn't Be Necessary To Sue...
Following in the footsteps of the MPAA, the RIAA has now filed its response in the Jammie Thomas case, claiming again that actual proof of...
EFF attacks foundation of entire RIAA lawsuit campaign
The Electronic Frontier Foundation weighed in this week on the Jammie Thomas file-swapping case, where the judge has asked for public comment on...
MPAA Says It Doesn’t Need Evidence to Convict Pirates
Threat Level reports that the MPAA now argues that it has the right to demand up to $150,000 in damages per illegally downloaded file, without having...
Bad Day For The RIAA: Two High Profile Cases Go Against RIAA
Well, well, well. The RIAA is not having a particularly good week. In the Tanya Andersen case (where the RIAA sued an innocent person), the court has...
750,000 Lost Jobs? The Dodgy Digits Behind the War on Piracy
Ars Technica: "750,000 and $200 to $250 billion. The first is the number of U.S. jobs supposedly lost to intellectual property theft; the second is...
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