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# MP3Skull Owes RIAA $22 Million, May Not Pay A Dime
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/mp3skull-owes-riaa-22-million-may-not-pay-a-dime/
- Published: 2016-03-04T09:55:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-03-04T09:55:00.000Z
- Description: Although the RIAA is more than happy to drop a lawsuit on copyright violators, their latest victims at MP3Skull, may get away with their wallets intact, given that the site's owners. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2016/03/mp3skull-owes-riaa-22-million-may-not-pay-a-dime.html]
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Music Business, music, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 10:22

[![1](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08c26c80970d-150wi "1")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201bb08c26c80970d-popup?ref=hypebot.com)Although the **RIAA** is more than happy to **drop a lawsuit** on **copyright violators**, their latest victims at **MP3Skull**, may get away with their wallets intact, given that the site's owners are **completely unknown**.

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Guest Post by **Bobby Owsinski** on [Music 3.0](http://music3point0.blogspot.com/2016/03/mp3skull-owes-riaa-22-million.html?ref=hypebot.com)When it thinks that there's copyright infringement going against its major label clients, the **RIAA** shows no qualms about slapping a lawsuit on the service, and it usually wins.That was the case recently when the association won $22.2 million in damages from the filesharing site **MP3Skull**, a site that supplies download links to songs by popular artists. [![1 (1)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c81da60a970b-320wi "1 (1)")](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201b7c81da60a970b-popup?ref=hypebot.com)The damages were determined by multiplying the 148 songs submitted as evidence by $150k each.In this case though, the RIAA might not collect a dime since the identities of the owners is totally unknown.MP3Skull now operates from the MP3Skull.yoga domain, and it has moved from .com and .to domains when they have been blocked via previous court orders in the UK.Although the ruling allows the RIAA to size the domain, it can't get at the assets if it doesn't know where they are and who they belong to.Here's the thing though – with streaming just about everywhere these days where a user can listen to any song at any time, why would anyone be bothered with downloading a pirated song?The lawsuit may end being a moot point, but at least it shows that the RIAA is doing something to warrant the big bag of money that its clients put into it.

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