Webcaster Alliance Threatens To Sue RIAA

Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 9, 2003 @09:36AM from the let's-get-straight-to-the-smiting dept.

detroitindustrial writes "The Washington Post reports that the Webcaster Alliance is threatening to sue the RIAA under the Sherman Antitrust Act. In their letter to the RIAA, the Webcaster Alliance alleges that the RIAA and the Voice of Webcasters negotiated in collusion and, 'were apparently intent on either eliminating their competitors and/or raising barriers to entry in the market for small commercial webcasting.' It goes on to say that the RIAA also wanted to eliminate smaller webcasters, who tend to play more independent material, in order to maintain their monopoly on music distribution."

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Just like the Visa antitrust case... by SamMichaels · 2003-07-09 09:55 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Visa/Mastercard merchants filed a class action lawsuit against Visa for FORCING you to process the debit cards. So basically any merchant between 1992 and last year is going to get a piece of the pie.

I think this will ultimately end up being that any person who purchased music, listened to radio, or listened to an online station in a certain time period will get part of a settlement...similar to the Visa case.

When I become president, I'll disband the RIAA for being communist :)