RIAA Enlists ISPs As Paralegals
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has sent out a letter to ISP’s to enlist them as Paralegals in an effort to change its prelitigation policies. The letter informs the ISP’s to “stop making mistakes in identifying subscribers” — “offers a ‘Pre-Doe settlement option’ with a discount of ‘$1000 or more’ to their subscribers who illegally share music...
Viacom Announces Music Video Content Syndication To Compete Against YouTube
After Viacom yanked its collection of videos off of Google’s YouTube, the concern has announced that it is laying the groundwork for its videos to be available to hundreds of thousands of other sites. In the next few months, Web users will be able to grab videos from nearly all MTV-owned sites and post them on their own blogs or Web sites. Viacom, owner of MTV Networks and the Paramount Pictures movie studio, had been planning...






