Posted on 31 August 2007 by mike.
Dean Garfield works as a ‘hit man’ for the Motion Picture Associate of America (MPAA), the Hollywood enforcement group responsible for monitoring and preventing misuse of copyrighted material.
In an interview Garfield told reporters that his aversion to new technology – specifically technology that assists in the recording and distributing of Hollywood material – is [...]
Posted on 29 August 2007 by mike.
TorrentSpy has formulated a novel way to get around the federal court ruling that ordered it to track users’ usage of the site: it simply banned all US usage of the search features. Hmmm. This was decided as the best course of action to ‘protect user privacy’.
A notice on the website stated:
Torrentspy.com, an [...]
Posted on 28 August 2007 by mike.
The Big Four Cartel – Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG’s – collectively the RIAA, is “battling 1.000 when it comes to the ‘making available’ argument”. In an argument reaching new heights of ludicrously the Big 4 cartel claims that merely having a shared files folder means that files are available for [...]
Posted on 24 August 2007 by mike.
Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, quoted in a Playboy interview last year, scored a hit for proponents of the digital music downloads movement:
“I like the idea that, because of downloading, people are going to buy songs only if they are good,”
he continued:
“I think that’s a positive thing. It means lazy bands aren’t going to get [...]
Posted on 22 August 2007 by mike.
Wal-Mart is joining other large organisations in offering DRM-free music downloads from its online store. Joining Viacom’s MTV Networks and RealNetwork joint effort, along with LimeWire’s proposed online music store, Wal-Mart is the latest in a line of corporations wishing to cash in on what is clearly a very lucrative market. Unlike many [...]
Posted on 20 August 2007 by Lee.
A man in Sydney has been asked to appear at a Sydney court in October: he is accused of recording the entire “The Simpsons” movie on his telephone and uploading to the a number of P2P sites such as
Posted on 17 August 2007 by Lee.
The Pirate Party (or more formally the Pirate Party of the United States), a new ‘political’ organization, has taken steps to become an officially recognized political party. The group is currently gathering statements of support from at least 2000 registered voters in the state. It has until February 2008 to collect this support, which will [...]
Posted on 15 August 2007 by Lee.
The largest U.S. Broadband Internet provider – AT&T – will begin to deploy anti-piracy technology that might be used to monitor its 13 million customers.
The ISP is deploying fiber optic cable to homes in the US, meaning the company can expand its offerings and provide customers with a cable service. While developing and marketing [...]
Posted on 13 August 2007 by Lee.
Vivendi’s Universal Music Group, based in France, has joined Britain’s EMI in selling music downloads that are not tightly protected by DRM. That leaves only Song BMG (based in Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (based in the US) to be using the outdated protection on their music downloads.“Universal Music Group said Thursday that [...]
Posted on 11 August 2007 by Lee.
An industry security expert pointed out recently that:
“Many computers can be connected to the Internet with identical IP addresses as long as they remain behind control points such as routers, firewalls, proxy servers, or similar technologies.”
This might not surprise many people, but certainly it detracts from what may have been viewed as ’scare mongering’ by [...]
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