This time around, the organization formally dropped its subpoena of Austin internet service provider (ISP) Apogee Telecom, which had provided service to a number of "John Doe" students in Rhode Island. The RIAA, hoping to sniff out the true identities of these music traders, had petitioned the ISP for those names. Apogee, calling their bluff, refused, and in a rousing display of bravado, formally filed objections to the subpoena instead. more ›

A San Antonio court has ruled that Whitney Harper, a now college-age woman sued by the RIAA for using Kazaa to download music when she was 16, was indeed an "innocent infringer," dropping her penalty to $200 per infringement instead of the RIAA's desired $750, asked for in a request for summary judgment. more ›

If you comb through news aggregate websites every morning waiting for your coffee to kick in like I do, you may have come across an odd little story about the recent demise of OiNK, an invite-only torrent site that put links to thousands of music files at one’s fingertips. It was a sprawling, cluttered site that demanded small download-to-upload ratios (1:1 was emphasized) and gave special privileges to users who donated to the site’s administrator,... more ›