It seems our friends over at the RIAA just cannot get enough.read more digg story
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- In the realm of copyright conflicts, only the skirmishes change; the core issues remain the same.
Several years after its heightened battle against music-file swapping over peer-to-peer sharing networks, the Recording Industry Association of America has turned its attention towards another side of its market.
The RIAA, founded in 1952, functions as the music industry`s lobbying arm and helps administer in the collection, administration and distribution of music licenses and royalties for the vast majority of its industry.
Unauthorized music videos, according to the group, have become prevalent over popular Internet viral video sites such as YouTube, Google Video and iFilm. The result has been a series of cease-and-desist warnings on the part of the RIAA to users of these sites, who have been importing the videos through digital recorder devices such as TiVos and then uploading them to the sites, which base their content on user submissions.
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