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RIAA keeps 12-year-old quiet with $2,000 bill

According to the articles:

"The RIAA took quick steps to blunt a public relations atrocity by agreeing to settle out of court with a 12-year-old girl accused of trading copyrighted songs."
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Verizon, RIAA Trade Jabs at Senate Hearing

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"Representatives from Verizon and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) staked out familiar ground Tuesday when testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the subpoena powers of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but the testimony also provided a sneak preview of next week's court appearance by the two warring parties."
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Senator: Beware RIAA's Amnesty Offer

According to the articles:

"U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.), who earlier this summer questioned the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) subpoena process in its ongoing war against music pirates, is urging caution for those tempted by the music industry's new amnesty program."
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Canadian file sharers' risk low

According to the articles:

"Canadians who download music for free from the Internet should be cautious but not overly worried about the U.S. recording industry's recent legal crackdown on individual file traders, legal experts say."
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Novato man sues RIAA over amnesty program Suit says music industry's plan misleading

According to the articles:

"With the recording industry suing hundreds of individual online file sharers, a Novato man wants to turn the tables by suing the record industry on behalf of individual consumers."
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EU delays vote on 'Euro-DMCA'

According to the articles:

"A vote on the EU's proposed directive on the enforcement of intellectual property rights, which has been compared to a draconian US law, has been pushed back to November"
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Commentary: What's Real and Make-Believe with the RIAA Subpoenas?

According to the articles:

"What's real and what's make-believe about the RIAA's recent subpoena campaign and it's newly announced "Amnesty" program?

A recent decision by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals finds that a party using "patently unlawful" subpoenas to obtain access to another party's stored electronic communications could be liable for violations of electronic privacy and computer fraud statutes. This could have serious implications for the RIAA's mass subpoena campaign in that, if such subpoenas were also determined to be "patently unlawful," for whatever reason, the organization could be held liable under electronic privacy and computer fraud statutes for accessing user data under false pretenses. (Read a summary of the decision.)

Does this mean, if the RIAA's subpoenas are determined "invalid," that they are illegally snooping? It's extremely possible. However, the DMCA subpoena law is new and there aren't many decisions on it, so the RIAA could try to hide behind the "newness" of the law to avoid liability for misusing it.

If the RIAA's subpoenas were determined to be "patently unlawful," file sharers could potentially retaliate with lawsuits for alleged electronic privacy and computer fraud violations if the RIAA's counsel knowingly misuses the subpoena process in order to gain access to file sharers' private information."

"Clean Slate's Privacy Policy raises other questions. It states that "information provided on the Clean Slate Program Affidavit will be used solely in connection with conducting and enforcing the Clean Slate Program" and not used for "marketing, promotional, or public relations purposes" and will "not be made public or given to third parties, including individual copyright owners," but then there's a big exception: "except if necessary to enforce a participant's violation of the pledges set forth in the Affidavit or otherwise required by law." This language, translated, means that the affidavit records would in fact be made available to other infringement lawsuits.

"We're calling it a 'Shamnesty.' It's more like a Trojan Horse than a 'clean slate.' It fools you into thinking you're safe, when the reality is that, if anything, you're more at risk for participating," explains Jason Schultz, Staff Attorney for the EFF. "It's not 'Full Amnesty' at all. The agreement doesn't give file sharers any real peace of mind, because it only covers being sued by the RIAA itself -- not any of its member companies. This means that, under the Clean Slate agreement, recording companies, copyright owners, and music publishers can all still sue you. It only means that the RIAA won't 'assist' them in the lawsuit. They are basically getting you to admit to the conduct so your own statement can be used against you later.""
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