Progressive Coder
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?
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 the peer [...]
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 might actually [...]
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 shut down the [...]
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 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 [...]
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.
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 pioneer file sharing [...]
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
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 [...]