Recording Industry Association of America

CD players dying one car at a time

2013-04-17 11:43:00

CD players are going the way of the ashtray, roll-down windows and whitewall tires. Chevrolet is the latest to join the ranks of automakers like Ford who have ditched physical media players in favor of music streamed through onboard systems and...

$1.5M of counterfeit goods seized from Dundalk flea market

2013-03-13 18:34:00

Baltimore County police seized $1.5 million worth of counterfeit merchandise after a raid at a Dundalk flea market last month, the department announced Wednesday. Charges are pending against 19 people who rent space in the market, not the flea market...

Baltimore County police raid Plaza Flea Market for counterfeit goods

2013-02-16 12:50:00

As regulars perused handmade jewelry, discounted bedsheets, slightly-worn stuffed animals and other knick-knacks, dozens of Baltimore County police officers swarmed into a bustling Dundalk flea market Saturday morning to bust vendors allegedly selling...

What would a "digital Citizens' Bill of Rights" look like for Internet users?

2012-09-13 07:40:00

If you've paid attention to Internet news over the past year, you might know that the notion of a "free Internet" has been hotly debated and seen by many as under siege. Internet activists recently stopped SOPA and PIPA, two bills that would've given...

Want an app? There could be a tax for that

2012-01-25 16:57:00

That download of an Angry Birds app, Katy Perry song, or "Captain America" movie could end up costing consumers more, thanks to a "digital products" tax proposal that's being pushed in Annapolis this year by Gov. Martin O'Malley. The bill is part of a...

Independent musicians' trade group comes out in support of SOPA, PIPA; Wye Oak, others balk

2012-01-18 10:25:00

A couple of controversial, Internet piracy bills in Congress have pit the tech industry against the music business, even independents. In a statement sent out early Wednesday afternoon, A2IM, the largest trade organization of independent musicians and...

Concert news: O.A.R., Foster the People, Cavo, Of Montreal, the Magnetic Fields

2011-12-20 04:00:00

Merriweather Post Pavilion has announced its first summer concert of 2012. It'll be the indie band Foster the People. The band, out with debut album "Torches," will play June 10. The album has already been certified Gold by the RIAA, which is probably...

Relive the '80s at Jiffy Lube Live with Def Leppard

2011-07-07 11:58:00

Editor's note: The Def Leppard concert originally scheduled for July 9 has been rescheduled to July 31 due to a family illness. If the kids will be flocking to Merriweather Post Pavilion on Saturday night for Animal Collective, their parents will heading...

Concert news: Rammstein, Noel Gallagher, Gary Clark Jr., Cuneifest

2011-11-16 04:00:00

Next year's concert announcements are already starting to roll out. The German industrial metal band Rammstein will perform at 1st Mariner Arena, of all places, on April 25. Expect lots of pyrotechnics. The band is promoting a greatest hits package,...

Ice Cube comes to Bourbon Street

2011-03-03 11:36:00

If Ice Cube's career is any indication, the life cycle of a rapper is highly unpredictable. One day you're protesting police brutality, and 20 years later you're playing cute for the "Ramona and Beezus" set. Still, his legacy as one of the pioneers of...

Checking in with Linkin Park

2011-02-03 10:26:00

Linkin Park has been around for 12 years now, but it was only last year that it made what has been hailed as its best album. On Thursday, the veteran band will perform at Verizon Center as part of its "A Thousand Suns" tour, which recently completed...

Recording Industry: Here's a (inadvertent) handy guide on best websites for stealing music

2010-11-10 12:33:28

From the Midnight Sun blog: In response to an inquiry from the federal government trade czar, the Recording Industry Association of America released Monday a filing itemizing "notorious markets" across the globe. Notorious markets are physical places...

The RIAA will present new digital stream awards plaques to Cher Lloyd, Jason Derulo and Emeli Sande on May 9 in Los Angeles.

2013-05-09 14:37:41

The music-sharing service may have lasted two short years (June 1999- July 2001), but those years not only let us fill our music library until it bulged at the seams but changed the way we felt about paying for, well, everything.

2012-06-26 00:00:00

A photograph of Nodar Kumaritashvili, together with a bouquet of flowers, stands under the Olympic Rings on a steet in Whistler on Friday. The 21-year-old from the Republic of Georgia died from injuries he sustained in a high-speed crash during a men's singles luge training run.

2010-02-12 00:00:00