{"id":3007,"date":"2005-05-25T09:15:36","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T13:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/05\/25\/file-sharer-insurance-huh\/"},"modified":"2005-05-25T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2005-05-25T13:15:36","slug":"file-sharer-insurance-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/2005\/05\/25\/file-sharer-insurance-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"File-Sharer Insurance? Huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1124'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emediawire.com\/releases\/2005\/5\/emw244000.htm\">this press release<\/a><br \/>\nin my mailbox.&nbsp; Vague info about a P2P-based music subscription<br \/>\nservice with a licensed catalog comparable to Napster, Yahoo!, et al.<br \/>\nThis caught my eye: &#8220;The music subscription service includes copyright<br \/>\ninfringement<br \/>\ninsurance. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) may<br \/>\ncontinue to target non-subscribing P2P users with lawsuits, and<br \/>\ninadvertently sue RazorPop&#x2019;s paying customers. The insurance will be<br \/>\ncapped at $5,000 per subscriber, which is above typical RIAA settlement<br \/>\namounts to date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Huh?&nbsp; I&#8217;m in the midst of finals right now, but if anyone cares to do some research on this, do fill me in.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Update: <\/span>Ernest is, of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.corante.com\/importance\/archives\/2005\/05\/25\/copyright_infringement_insurance_for_filesharing_an_idea_whose_time_has_still_not_come.php\">on the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Found this press release in my mailbox.&nbsp; Vague info about a P2P-based music subscription service with a licensed catalog comparable to Napster, Yahoo!, et al. This caught my eye: &#8220;The music subscription service includes copyright infringement insurance. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) may continue to target non-subscribing P2P users with lawsuits, and inadvertently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cmusings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}