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• Music industry group resumes anti-piracy campaign on college campuses

  - 2007-10-18

  In its ongoing campaign to fight illegal sharing of digital music files, the Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has marked the launch of the 2007-08 academic year by sending 403 pre-litigation settlement letters to 22 U.S. universities. Sent on behalf of major record companies, the letters allege evidence that...

  Tags: antipiracy, music, network, NETWORKING, RIAA

• San Jacinto College Seeks to Protect Against Threats Introduced by Peer-to-Peer File Sharing

  - 2007-09-25

  Houston College Selects Mirage to Secure Campus Networks AUSTIN, Texas -- Mirage Networks, developer of full-cycle Network Access Control NAC solutions, today announced that San Jacinto College in Houston has implemented Mirage's NAC technology across three campuses to maintain network uptime and availability in part by curtailing peer-to-peer (P2P)...

  Tags: network, NETWORKING, P2P, RIAA

• IHEs get new warning on file piracy

  - 2006-06-01

  WE'VE WRITTEN A NUMBER OF TIMES about the problem of illegal file sharing on college and university networks. Several years ago when the issue first came onto the public radar, the conventional wisdom was that colleges and universities wouldn't be held liable for the activities of students on their networks....

  Tags: file-sharing, INTERNET, LANs, MPAA, network, NETWORKING, piracy, RIAA

• PROTECTING DIGITAL BROADCAST CONTENT

  - 2005-11-04

  Statement of Michael Petricone Vice President, Government Affairs Consumer Electronics Association CEA Committee on House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property November 3, 2005 On behalf of the Home Recording Rights Coalition and the Consumer Electronics Association, I greatly appreciate the subcommittee`s invitation to appear today. The...

  Tags: broadcasting, Consumer Electronics Association, FCC, Government, MARKETING, NETWORKING, radio, RIAA, satellite, Strategy, technology, U.S. Congress

• Dynamic analysis of an institutional conflict: copyright owners against online file sharing

  - 2005-09-01

  Online music-sharing networks have been used by millions of people since they first appeared in 1999 (Leuf 2002; Associated Press 2004). The popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) technology and the low-cost music distribution channel it created threaten the dominant position of a small number of large firms in the commercial music...

  Tags: Alexander, Amy, analysis, bandwidth, file-sharing, INTERNET, latency, Music, network, NETWORKING, P2P, Peterson, RIAA

• The problem with P2P

  - 2004-11-01

  For those in the tech or telecom sectors, peer-to-peer computing is clever but hardly remarkable. P2P is all about increasingly-gutsy clients challenging the dominance of the mainframe or switch. If the entire story of the Internet could be put in a sentence, that's about it. We know this...

  Tags: INTERNET, NETWORKING, P2P, RIAA, telecommunications, Telephony

• Recording industry sues computer users

  - 2004-03-24

  LOS ANGELES -- The recording industry sued 532 people Tuesday, including scores of individuals using computer networks at 21 universities, claiming they were illegally sharing digital music files over the Internet. This latest wave of copyright lawsuits brought by the Recording Industry Association of America on behalf...

  Tags: computer, lawsuit, network, NETWORKING, PRODUCTIVITY, RIAA

• Music industry launches fresh round of piracy lawsuits

  - 2004-03-23

  WASHINGTON AFP ? The recording industry announced a fresh round of lawsuits against suspected online music pirates, targeting 532 individuals, including some using networks at major US universities. The initiative by the Recording Industry Association of America, which represents the major record companies, was among the largest against those...

  Tags: Agence France-Presse, INTERNET, lawsuit, network, NETWORKING, P2P, RIAA

• Parks Associates: RIAA Legal Campaign Against Music Piracy Having Mixed Results; Campaign Most Effective With Women

  - 2003-11-13

  Business Editors/High-Tech Writers DALLAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 13, 2003 The RIAA legal campaign against music piracy has been only partially effective among the broadband population, according to Parks Associates' latest survey. In general, the campaign has deterred 46% of all households from downloading music illegally off the Internet; however, the...

  Tags: INTERNET, MARKETING, NETWORKING, Parks Associates, piracy, RIAA, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, women

• Commentary: Darknets thwart Recoding Industry Assn. of America

  - 2003-10-10

  The Recording Industry Association of America has been battling the sharing of copyrighted music files for years. When court rulings almost spelled the demise of Napster several years ago, it seemed to be a major victory for the RIAA. However, people are now creating their own private networks...

  Tags: network, NETWORKING, RIAA