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...
UK DJ Busted For Selling Pre-Release Tracks
The International Recording Industry has announced that a UK DJ has been arrested by police for allegedly selling a large quantity of pre-release albums on eBay. The man’s name was being withheld. The man, a DJ and music reviewer based in London, was arrested on suspicion of theft and money laundering. The case centers on the alleged sale of pre-release copies of albums by artists including Foals, Delays, Grand National and...






