Tag: SETTLEMENT

From the putting-a-smile-on-your-newly-awoken-face department... The aptly named Recording Industry vs. The People blog has done a little investigative journalism and produced some fantastic figures that truly illustrate just how pathetically pointless the RIAA is. Over the course of three years, the RIAA has spent a total of $64 million in the tracking down and prosecution of music pirates. ...

Although AOL has been rebranding itself as an online destination rather than an internet service provider, many people still think of AOL as the company that sent you a signup CD in the mail pretty much every day of the year. This blog's parent company hasn't just been aggressive in signing up new customers, but also in keeping old ones. It turns out there's a price to pay for badgering or ...

Google has reached a settlement with Agence France-Presse, one of the largest institutions still engaged in a legal battle with Google over the posting of headlines, news summaries, and images on the Google News website. AFP and Google signed a licensing agreement today allowing Google to post AFP content. The wire service will withdraw its lawsuit, filed more than two years ago. Details of the ...

Today MetaMachine, Inc. settled with the RIAA, agreeing to pay $30 million to avoid potential copyright lawsuits from the recording industry. RIAA chairman and chief executive Mitch Bainwol said of the settlement, "With this new settlement, another domino falls, and we have further strengthened the footing of the legal marketplace." Along with the pay-out, MetaMachine has agreed to "take measures ...

Free Peers, Inc., the company which produces popular file sharing software BearShare, has reached a $30 million settlement with RIAA and bowed out of the P2P business. The company will be selling all of its BearShare-related intellectual property, including source code, user information, and over 100 domain names, to iMesh, the P2P company that agreed to go "legit" after reached its own $4.1 ...

Sony BMG has proposed a settlement in the class action lawsuit concerning the XCP rootkit that many of its music CDs were installing on users' computers without their permission. If passed, the settlement would have Sony recalling all XCP CDs and replace them with non-DRM CDs, plus ensuring that all XCP CDs are "promptly removed from the market" by offering owners incentives in the form ...