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U.K. Proposes to Shut Off Internet for Illegal Downloaders

U.K. newspaper The Guardian reported Tuesday that this British government is considering harsher laws to crack down on illegal filesharers. Penalties reportedly on the table could require ISP's to ban access to certain download sites, slow broadband connections and even cut off internet access to repeat offenders....  read more

Minnesota Court Awards RIAA $1.92M for Theft of 24 Songs

Court is adjourned in the high-profile RIAA case against Jammie Thomas-Rasset for the download of two-dozen songs: a Minnesota jury awarded the Recording Industry Association of America $1.92 million in their suit against Rasset for sharing 24 songs on the Kazaa P2P network. Rasset is ordered to pay the fine to four major labels for damage compensation....  read more

Muxtape goes offline during fight with RIAA

An unspecified RIAA-related issue has caused playlist-streaming website Muxtape to go offline—temporarily. Coming just after web radio site Pandora announced it may shut down permanently because of high artist royalty fees, this Muxtape vs. the Recording Industry Association of America development is raising even more questions about the future of webcasting....  read more

U.K. talking about taxing music downloaders

It's nice that every once in a while download news comes from a pragmatic, rather than disciplinary, realm. In the last few years, the tide of of industry crackdown on media piracy has only risen—the closing of peer-to-peer program Napster, the onset of RIAA lawsuits and the seizure of bit-torrents site OiNK but a few of the symptoms....  read more