{"id":1843,"date":"2012-01-25T16:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1843"},"modified":"2012-01-25T16:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-01-25T21:00:16","slug":"riaa-issues-statement-about-megaupload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=1843","title":{"rendered":"RIAA Issues Statement About Megaupload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Recording Industry Association of America<\/strong> issued a <a href=\"http:\/\/riaa.com\/blog.php?content_selector=riaa-news-blog&#038;content_selector=riaa-news-blog&#038;blog_selector=Why-Closing-Megaupload-Matters&#038;news_month_filter=1&#038;news_year_filter=2012\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> about <strong>Megaupload<\/strong> yesterday on <a href=\"http:\/\/riaa.com\/blog.php?content_selector=riaa-news-blog&#038;content_selector=riaa-news-blog&#038;blog_selector=Why-Closing-Megaupload-Matters&#038;news_month_filter=1&#038;news_year_filter=2012\" target=\"_blank\">their blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/riaa.com\/blog.php?content_selector=riaa-news-blog&#038;content_selector=riaa-news-blog&#038;blog_selector=Why-Closing-Megaupload-Matters&#038;news_month_filter=1&#038;news_year_filter=2012\" target=\"_blank\">this statement<\/a>, they believe that this raid will result in more traffic towards the legal services :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npd.com\/press\/releases\/press_110323.html\" target=\"_blank\">NPD Group<\/a>, <strong>Limewire<\/strong> users left by the millions in the months after the shutdown&#8230; Digital music sales that had been flagging jumped in the month immediately after the <strong>Limewire<\/strong> shutdown, and have remained stronger ever since&#8230; When <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.biz\/bbbiz\/industry\/retail\/the-2011-music-sales-boost-by-the-numbers-1005339412.story\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard<\/a> looked at the data after the <strong>Limewire<\/strong> shutdown it said \u201cThe spike in sales was immediate, noticeable and lasting.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately this raid has resulted in concerns about legitimate services being removed from the net because of the actions of the service&#8217;s users according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/tech\/news\/story\/2012-01-20\/megaupload-arrests-FBI\/52697186\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Threatpost.com security blogger Dennis Fisher<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Recording Industry Association of America issued a statement about Megaupload yesterday on their blog. According to this statement, they believe that this raid will result in more traffic towards the legal services : &#8220;According to the NPD Group, Limewire users left by the millions in the months after the shutdown&#8230; Digital music sales that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7],"tags":[379,380,508,555,580,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}