Judge Deals Blow to RIAA in Music Piracy Case

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riaa-logo-123.jpgThe Recording Industry Association of America suffered a legal setback this week in a music piracy case where a judge ruled that the sole act of making a music file available in a “shared folder” does not violate copyright laws.

In Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA made the legal assertion that a “sound recording” that is ripped to a computer and stored in any kind of a shared folder is unauthorized. This was an interesting statement because a shared folder can be a very broad category that wasn’t entirely made clear by the RIAA.

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In the ruling this week, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake denied the RIAA’s summary judgment motion and shot down all of the RIAA’s theories of file distribution where the digital file did not change hands.

The RIAA and MPAA are already working on new laws

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