The four big record companies are to compete with Apple's forthcoming Cocktail project by developing their own format called CMX.

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Tenenbaum is only the second American to be slapped with such a lawsuit. The first person to be sued by recording companies on these charges was a Minnesota woman in 2007. She was ordered to pay a whopping $1.92 million to the labels.

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We've noticed that pretty much every single new and innovative digital music startup that pops up eventually gets sued by the record labels. The labels seem to view this as a part of basic negotiations -- and, in fact, many of the lawsuits have ended in partnership/equity deals.

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The RIAA have finally declared DRM dead for music, according to all-things-BitTorrent weblog TorrentFreak.

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For years the RIAA has defended the use of DRM, much to the dislike of millions of honest customers who actually paid for their music.

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An analysis of the RIAA's campaign of suing it's clients customers and how the reporting of the campaign is being skewed.

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Buh-Bye Music Industry

What will likely be billed as a "victory" for the music industry, is actually the straw that will break the camel's back. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) sued a woman for downloading 24 songs and was awarded $1.92 Million by a jury in Minnesota.

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I am just waiting for this to happen in the States. It really can't be that far down the road considering the crap the RIAA is able to pull.

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High ranking people at the record labels soon declared victory claiming that justice had been served. However, many of the artists to which the record label executives owe their well paid salaries are disgusted by the outcome of the case and the witch-hunt on their fans.

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Jammie Thomas has been ordered to pay a fine of $1.92 million for by a jury for 24 songs she was accused of downloading.

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The music industry does like to insist that filesharing - aka illegal downloading - is killing the industry: that every one of the millions of music files downloaded each day counts as a "lost" sale, which if only it could somehow have been prevented would put stunning amounts of …

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The recording industry has spent (and continues to spend) millions of dollars on its litigation campaign against accused file-swappers, but if two lawyers have their way, the RIAA will have to pay all the money back.

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Advance Patrol was one of the bands used by the prosecution in The Pirate Bay trial as an example of a band harmed by The Pirate Bay. Except... apparently the band didn't think so.

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CBS requested user data from Last.fm, including user name and IP address.

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Ars Technica article reports the case of a Harvard law professor who believes file sharing is fair use, and is involved in a case to force the RIAA to return the money it has received through court judgements from file sharers.

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The behavior of the RIAA/MPAA during the last decade has been nothing short of a schoolyard bully who has the teacher in his pocket.

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The lawyer for Jammie Thomas-- a woman who is being sued by the RIAA for file sharing -- wants to remove himself from the case. He claims he has already faced costs of $130,000 that he does not believe he will recover.

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[Michael] Robertson--the controversial founder of MP3.com, Linspire, and MP3tunes.com--has accused Lala, of attempting to transfer control of its users music to the recording labels.

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Until recently, the recording industry were committing publicity suicide by routinely issuing legal threats to file sharers. Now, they seem to have changed the routine, going for fewer, but bigger targets.

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The Pirate Bay defendants wanted to know why they were being prosecuted while Google was not, even though Google also indexes .torrent files. A new site called "Pirate Google" tries to make the same point; we speak with the site's anonymous creator.

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A court in Sweden has jailed four men behind The Pirate Bay (TPB), the world's most high-profile file-sharing website, in a landmark case.

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Trent Reznor: "One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract.

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Radiohead, the band that made millions of dollars by giving away their music for free, has very little to complain about when it comes to piracy. On the contrary, in a landmark file-sharing case, Radiohead has responded positively to a request to testify against the RIAA.

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Jim Cicconi, a senior executive vice president at AT&T, says much has been written about his company's relationship with the music industry and some of it is flatly untrue. This much at least Cicconi wants customers to understand: "AT&T is not going to suspend or terminate anyon …

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This week several scary stories surfaced about how the MPAA and RIAA are negotiating with ISPs on how to deal with copyright infringers.

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