Deborah Foster Awarded $68,685.23 From RIAA
Deborah Foster was awarded her attorney fees stemming from a copyright infringement suit brough on by the RIAA. Foster originally demanded the fees after the RIAA dropped its claim in Capitol v. Foster after a long, misguided legal battle. US District Court Judge West decided in favor of Foster months ago, but now has affixed a specific dollar value amounting to $68,685.23. “Based upon the foregoing, the court grants the...
Sony BMG Sues Amergence / MediaMax For Anti-Ripping Spyware Debacle
Sony BMG, in a move that we knew was coming, has initiated a lawsuit against Amergence Technologies, formerly SunnComm International, and MediaMax Technology (First4Internet) for damages caused by the anti-ripping spyware DRM fiasco in 2005. Sony’s idiotic use of the aforemented companies’ lame DRM schemes on several CDs caused a media-firestorm, and a major backlash against the major. The lawsuit contends that the copy protection...






