RIAA Drops Infringement Lawsuit Against Joan Cassin After “Making Available” Challenge
House Of Cards Finally Falling? The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA, if you’re nasty) has quietly dropped a two-year file-swapping lawsuit against Joan Cassin. The news demonstrates that the RIAA is finding itself more and more on shaky legal ground, and begins to raise even more questions about its tactic for identifying and prosecuting individual file-sharers. The case, Warner v. Cassin, was voluntarily dropped...
Warner Music Pulls Out Of Last.fm
Warner Music has pulled its on-demand catalog off of Last.fm, the online music service that allows users to listen to any track on their site at anytime. Warner Music Group has now removed its full-track, on-demand catalog from Last.fm, who is owned by CBS. “We are currently negotiating a new agreement with Warner Music Group and are working hard to build the most comprehensive music service on the web,” a CBS spokesperson...






