Chief executive for the Recording Industry Association of America, Hilary Rosen, is helping draft the copyright legislation for the New Iraq, according to investigative journalist Gregory Palast. RIAA’s Rosen ‘writing Iraq copyright laws’ | The Register Maybe this is the real reason behind the war in Iraq?
Archives for April 2003
RIAA Warns Song Swappers
The record industry opened a new front in its war against online piracy on Tuesday by surprising hundreds of thousands of Internet song swappers with an instant message warning that they could be "easily" identified and face "legal penalties" for their actions. Music Industry Sends Warning to Song Swappers Since the U.S. Court ruled that [...]
Spammers getting desperate?
Pressed by increasingly effective anti-spam efforts, senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail are resorting to outright criminality in their efforts to conceal the source of their ill-sent missives, using Trojan horses to turn the computers of innocent netizens into secret spam zombies. The Register It seems that the blocking of open mail relays and known spam-hosts [...]
P2P is ruled legal!
A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much of the record industry and movie studios’ lawsuit against the two companies. Judge: File-swapping tools are legal | CNET News.com I wonder what the RIAA is going to do now, when they can’t just [...]
Computer Virus tries to Exploit SARS
The virus spreads via email as usual, but it tries to get people to open the attachment containing the virus by claiming to contain recent important information about SARS. So, if you get SARS information from a friend, try to stay clear. At least run a very recent virus killer. Or even better, don’t use [...]
EMI Pushes Online Music
EMI has signed deals with 20 top European websites to sell its music online. According to Reuters, ‘Consumers will be able to make permanent copies of songs and transfer them to recordable CDs, portable music players and their computer hard drives’. This represents a major shift in policy by EMI, who previously went to great [...]
Napster Investor Sued
Two major record labels filed suit Monday against venture capital firm Hummer Winblad Venture Partners for its investment in Napster, alleging that it contributed to rampant music theft through the former file-swapping network. Record labels sue Napster investor | CNET News.com Seems like shutting down Napster wasn’t enough for the record industry. /me sighs.
The Man Who Hijacked Napster
Shawn Fanning was the brains behind the popular Internet startup, but it was his uncle, John Fanning of Hull, who called the shots – and pocketed an estimated $1 million before the business went bankrupt. The Man Who Hijacked Napster A nice write up on the history of the rise and fall of Napster, the [...]
Face the Music
Five ways the music industry can re-invent itself to try and come to grips with the loss of revenue which is supposedly caused by peer 2 peer networks, and not due to releasing fewer and more expensive records than ever. TheStar.com – Time to face the music
U.S Sides with Record Labels
The U.S. court has finally ruled in the RIAA vs. Verizon case where the RIAA demands that Verizon needs to disclose the personal details and help track down some of it’s subscribers that have been trading copyrighted material via peer2peer networks. WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government sided with the recording industry in its dispute [...]