Music Industry Lawsuits
Is the Recording Industry Association of America still filing lawsuits against pirating music?
Yes they are. However, they are also slowly figuring out that in a digital age the old way of distribution no longer works.
I read that some labels have started allowing iTunes to sell their music without the DRM and other artists are releasing donation based albums where you pay whatever you think it merits.
No More RIAA Lawsuits Against Online Music Sharing & Warner Music Won’t Renew Contract
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John Grisham’s The Rainmaker (Special Collector’s Edition) $3.42 In Francis Ford Coppola’s filmization of the John Grisham best-seller, Matt Damon plays a young Memphis lawyer who helps a man stricken with leukemia battle a powerful insurance company that has rejected his claims. Danny DeVito is Damon’s resourceful mentor, Claire Danes a battered young wife he helps. With Jon Voight, Mickey Rourke, Mary Kay Place, and Danny Glover. 135 min. Widescreen; Soundtra… |
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Philadelphia $3.88 Tom Hanks won an Academy Award for Best Actor with his stirring portrayal of a successful attorney stricken with AIDS who sues his powerful Philadelphia firm after they dismiss him. The only lawyer who will take his case is homophobic ambulance-chaser Denzel Washington. With Jason Robards, Mary Steenburgen and Joanne Woodward; Jonathan Demme directs. 125 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: En… |
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Flash of Genius $1.97 In the early-1990s, Greg Kinnear was just another amiable talk show host. After As Good As It Gets, however, Kinnear confirmed he could act. If Flash of Genius isn’t as harrowing as the Bob Crane biopic Auto-Focus, Kinnear digs just as deep to play a man possessed, in this case taking on Bob Kearns, a Detroit physics professor who invented the intermittent windshield wiper. Supported by his wife (… |
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Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power $8.77 In 1959, twenty-nine-year-old Berry Gordy, who had already given up on his dream to be a champion boxer, borrowed eight hundred dollars from his family and started a record company. A run-down bungalow sandwiched between a funeral home and a beauty shop in a poor Detroit neighborhood served as his headquarters. The building’s entrance was adorned with a large sign that improbably boasted “Hits… |