http://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Recording_Industry_Association_of_AmericaFind stories, videos, and photos about Recording Industry Association of America from CNN.com.en-usCable News Network LP, LLLP.Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:06:26 GMT5http://i.cdn.turner.com//cnn/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/16/atoz.piracy/tztop.atoz.piracy.afp.jpghttp://topics.cnn.com/topics/feeds/rss/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America14433Find stories, videos, and photos about Recording Industry Association of America from CNN.com.http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/16/atoz.piracy/index.html#cnnSTCTexthttp://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/04/16/atoz.piracy/index.html#cnnSTCTextIf mention of The Pirate Bay conjures up images of parrots, peg legs and planks, or geeky jargon like BitTorrent and jailbreak leaves you all at sea, this handy A-Z will help you navigate the choppy waters of the online piracy debate.Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:53:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/10/09/technology/limewire.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/10/09/technology/limewire.fortune/index.htmRecently, Nat Hays, chairman of Brooklyn's independent +1 Records, wanted to break a record by one of his label's new bands, The Morning Benders. So he went straight to Apple's iTunes Music Store.Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:44:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/technology/hypemachine.fortune/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2008/07/22/technology/hypemachine.fortune/index.htmAnthony Volodkin ran into trouble last year when he tried to raise money for the Hype Machine, a digital music startup.Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:46:00 EDThttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20205028,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnnhttp://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20205028,00.html?xid=rss-fullcontentcnn"This is awesome. Thank you so much," the country star says of her surprise plaqueFri, 06 Jun 2008 21:13:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/22/news/companies/xm_lawsuit.reut/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2007/03/22/news/companies/xm_lawsuit.reut/index.htmThe National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA) filed a lawsuit against XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc on Thursday for providing radios that allegedly let users reproduce and distribute copyrighted music without paying appropriate royalties.Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:32:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/scary_tech/index.htmlhttp://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/scary_tech/index.htmlHorrible Halloween picks for the ghastliest gizmos, scariest software and most terrifying technologies of the year.Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:11:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/12/technology/riaa_lawsuits.dj/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2005/04/12/technology/riaa_lawsuits.dj/index.htmThe recording industry intends to sue hundreds of college students accused of illegally distributing music and movies across Internet2, the super-fast computer network connecting leading universities for researching the next generation of the Internet, industry officials said Tuesday.Tue, 12 Apr 2005 20:42:00 EDThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/11/ramasastry.file.swapping/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/11/11/ramasastry.file.swapping/index.htmlSince 2003, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has been suing peer-to-peer (P2P) file swappers and downloaders. The RIAA alleges, in its suits, that P2P file swapping and downloading, when it involves pirated files, violates copyright law -- and, at times, also the Digital Music Copyright Act (DMCA).Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:13:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/11/04/technology/movie_lawsuits/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/11/04/technology/movie_lawsuits/index.htmThe Motion Picture Association of America is set to follow the lead of the music industry and start filing lawsuits against individuals who it charges are illegally trading digital copies of movies, according to a published report.Thu, 04 Nov 2004 11:07:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/07/06/technology/cd_sales/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/07/06/technology/cd_sales/index.htmMusic CDs may not be headed the way of Betamax videotapes after all -- at least not yet.Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:14:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/05/04/news/fortune500/music_royalty.dj/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/05/04/news/fortune500/music_royalty.dj/index.htmNew York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is expected to announce today a settlement with the music industry under which recorded-music and music- publishing companies will make a good-faith effort to distribute $50 million in unpaid royalties to thousands of unknown musicians, along with a number of well- known performers, including David Bowie, Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Dolly Parton , Tuesday's Wall Street Journal reported.Tue, 04 May 2004 10:17:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/04/26/technology/music_download/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/04/26/technology/music_download/index.htmMore than 17 million Americans have stopped downloading music over the Internet following a recent crackdown on the practice, according to a new survey.Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:31:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/04/02/technology/movie_downloads/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/04/02/technology/movie_downloads/index.htmThe trade group for the major movie studios is considering following the legal path of the record companies by suing people for illegally downloading copyrighted materials, according to a published report.Fri, 02 Apr 2004 13:18:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/03/23/technology/riaa_sues.reut/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/03/23/technology/riaa_sues.reut/index.htmThe U.S. music industry on Tuesday sued 532 more people for online copyright infringement, including 89 individuals using college networks.Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:48:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/02/24/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/02/24/technology/techinvestor/hellweg/index.htmIt's never a good sign for the tech sector when some of its biggest news involves lawyers, but that's been the situation so far this year.Tue, 24 Feb 2004 15:39:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360106/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2004/02/09/360106/index.htmNear the center of the walled medieval district of Estonia's capital, Tallinn, sits the NoKu bar. It's almost impossible to find, on a cobblestone street behind a pair of old, unmarked wooden doors...Mon, 09 Feb 2004 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/01/22/commentary/wastler/wastler/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/01/22/commentary/wastler/wastler/index.htmThe pinstriped phantom appeared out of nowhere and stapled a "Swapper!" sign to my chest.Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:16:00 ESThttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/22/online.music/index.htmlhttp://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/22/online.music/index.htmlThe U.S. music industry says it is suing 532 individuals in anti-piracy lawsuits even though it does not know their names.Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:24:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/2004/01/21/technology/riaa_suits/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/2004/01/21/technology/riaa_suits/index.htmThe nation's record companies Wednesday sued another 532 people for illegally distributing copyrighted music over the Internet, stepping up their attack against online music piracy.Wed, 21 Jan 2004 17:37:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/16/328568/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/09/16/328568/index.htmThe music business is trapped in a new-economy time warp. While the rest of us plod through Scandal Summer 2002, record companies are still dealing with "paradigm shifting technologies," talk of ca...Mon, 16 Sep 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/08/12/327036/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/08/12/327036/index.htmTo the big record labels, Napster wasn't just a nuisance; it was their worst nightmare--the online equivalent to everyone storming into record stores and making off with armfuls of CDs. So when an ...Mon, 12 Aug 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/06/24/325202/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2002/06/24/325202/index.htmThe music industry may have won the battle against Napster, which recently filed for bankruptcy as part of a plan to sell its assets to Bertelsmann. But the victory comes in the midst of a larger w...Mon, 24 Jun 2002 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/25/305455/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2001/06/25/305455/index.htmThe Recording Industry Association of America may have won a legal victory against Napster, but now it's scrambling to keep up with the next generation of music-swapping software. The conventional ...Mon, 25 Jun 2001 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/20/276375/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/03/20/276375/index.htmEarly this year officials at Indiana University began noticing a curious thing: A rapidly rising percentage of the university's Internet bandwidth was being consumed by students using a new Web ser...Mon, 20 Mar 2000 05:01:00 ESThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/27/266177/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/27/266177/index.htmOver the past year I had read articles declaring the CD dead, heard friends talk about friends who had stopped patronizing record stores, and watched music executives fret over the impending meltdo...Mon, 27 Sep 1999 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265308/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1999/09/06/265308/index.htmOn a recent Saturday night, I punched in the code to enter the offices of a friend's startup in San Francisco. 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The Republican presidential hopeful recently scored big points bashing rap music and record companies such as Time Warner (parent of Fortune's publisher)...Mon, 10 Jul 1995 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74919/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1991/04/22/74919/index.htmTWO YEARS AGO in Milan, a squad of court officers and lawyers burst into the gloomy headquarters of Montedison, Italy's chemical giant. Sweeping through the building, they ordered employees at comp...Mon, 22 Apr 1991 04:01:00 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/01/65765/index.htmhttp://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1985/04/01/65765/index.htmA comeback award for Sixties rocker Tina Turner at this year's Grammys could easily have gone to the whole record industry. It has finally climbed out of the pit of a four-year depression that intr...Mon, 01 Apr 1985 05:01:00 EST