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  The RIAA's On-Demand Stream Policy Is Hostile to Hip-Hop

  May 13, 2013 – As SPIN reported via Billboard last week, the Recording Industry Association of America announced that it will now count the number of streams an album receives towards its gold and platinum status. The services whose streams will be considered are MOG, Muve Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, and Xbox Music. Also, video views from MTV.com, VEVO, Yahoo! Music, and YouTube are going to be factored in. …
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  Bafflingly, On-Demand Streams Now Count Toward Gold and Platinum Records

  May 9, 2013 – Listeners have gone from buying new music to streaming it. Now the Recording Industry Association of America is evolving with them, in a change that makes less sense than it may first appear.As Billboard reports, the RIAA has started taking on-demand streams into account in its methodology for certifying gold and platinum albums. The move marks just the fifth big tweak to the RIAA's metrics for awards since they started 55 years ago. …
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  Music Piracy's Search Problem: Recording Industry Bringing the Fight to Google

  February 6, 2013 – The conflict between the music business and Silicon Valley is approaching a new milestone. As Digital Music News reports (via FACT), the Recording Industry Association of America has now asked Google to remove nearly 10 million links from its search results.According to Google's most recent transparency report, from May 2011 through February 1 the organization representing the major record labels filed takedown requests for a cumul …
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  Minnesota Mom Still Owes RIAA $222,000, Says Appeals Court

  September 13, 2012 – With hope at last bubbling up in the Pussy Riot debacle, perhaps it's time for a new cause: "Free Jammie Thomas-Rasset!" It doesn't exactly roll off of the tongue — actually, come to think of it: "We Be Jammie!" — but if people started mobilizing behind the Minnesota mother of four who's been battling the RIAA in court for five years now, there's a slim chance she won't have to pay $222,000 for sharing 24 songs on Kazaa in 2 …
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