Hell hath no fury like an activist scorned. The internet collective known only as Anonymous are out for blood in the wake of the government’s shutdown of Megaupload.com earlier today. The group has waged an all-out war on those responsible, attacking the websites of the White House, the Department of Justice, Universal Music Group, the [...]
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Hall and Oates Won’t Sue ‘Callin Oates’ Guys
Posted by Chris Monty in December 26th 2011
Here’s an interesting follow up to a story we posted last week. It now looks like Daryl Hall and John Oates will NOT sue the guys behind that wildly popular Callin’ Oates service. In fact, TMZ says the guys are “thrilled about it”… so far, anyway. Callin’ Oates is a phone number you can dial [...]
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LimeWire Gets Shut Down by Judge
Posted by Chris Monty in October 27th 2010
LimeWire is gone. The popular file-sharing program has been permanently shut down after a federal judge deemed it guilty of assisting users in committing copyright infringement “on a massive scale.” In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood entered a permanent injunction, ordering the service to disable the searching, downloading, uploading or file trading [...]
Bizarre Rolling Stone Letter to Record Execs (PHOTO)
Posted by Chris Monty in August 17th 2010
In their latest issue, Rolling Stone has issued an open letter to record label executives that seems to be almost ten years too late. The letter is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the music industry for fighting the illegal sharing of MP3s. Rolling Stone seems to be sending the message that it’s OK to sneak into [...]
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Minnesota Mother Fined $1.92 Million in RIAA Case
Posted by Chris Monty in June 19th 2009
A mother of two from Minnesota has been fined $1.92 million for “willful copyright infringement” after illegally downloading and sharing 22 songs. Yes, that’s $80,000 per song. Jammie Thomas-Rasset was held accountable for the illegal downloads and ordered to pay the fine. Her lawyers maintain that it’s nearly impossible to prove that she was the [...]
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Radiohead Knives Out Against the RIAA
Posted by Chris Monty in April 5th 2009
Radiohead is on a machine. That mission is to put an end to put an end to record labels that abuse for their own benefit. In fact, the band, along with several other popular artists, recently formed the Featured Artists Coalition, a group whose goal is to end the extortion-like practices of record labels and [...]
