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Record companies are quick to squeal about their alleged billion dollar losses due to Internet file sharing, so wouldn’t it be reasonable to expect to see the effect on their bottom line? Apparently not when it comes to members of the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). The latest financial results released by ARIA [...]

With the news that the RIAA has just sued and settled with a twelve year old girl, it might be time to think about what kinds of people your CD purchasing supports. If you conclude (as I did) that you would prefer your money went to people with slightly better ethics, then you should [...]

The RIAA is offering an amnesty to Internet filesharers as long as they:

Identify themselves with photo ID
Make a sworn statement that they have deleted the files they shared
Pledge to stop the infringing behaviour

For anyone insane enough to consider this offer, I recommend doing a little more thinking and the quotation below from http://counterpunch.org/glahn09092003.html might help [...]

In yet another example of anti-consumer behaviour by record companies, Universal and Warner have been fined AUD$2 million after trying to bully record stores to not sell (legal) cut-price, imported CDs.
Both companies was fined AUD$1 million, and four senior executives fined AUD$45,000 each, after engaging in behaviour the Federal Court Justices described as “…plainly [...]

During January of this year, the Recording Industry Association of America’s website was hacked and some of their webpages replaced.
In case you’ve missed the news recently, the RIAA is the organisation that is:

Suing college students for potentially billions of dollars and forcing them to settle to avoid massive legal costs
Planning to sue music downloaders for [...]