Fred von Lohmann, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, proposes a flat-fee solution to the p2p problem in an article at the Daily Princetonian. Basically, what’ he’s proposing is to introduce a flat monthly surcharge to ISP access, and distribute that fee between the record companies and the artists. The current round [...]
Archives for April 2003
AOL strikes out against Spammers
America Online has filed five federal lawsuits against spammers they accuse of sending around 1 billion junk emails to their subscribers. A few of the lawsuits are against “John Doe”, meaning they don’t know who they are just yet, but with the lawsuits filed, they get additional authority to get ISPs and others help with [...]
Tim O’Reilly answers George Ziermann…
TimO’Reilly responded to the email from George Ziermann of MacWizards Music today, which I posted about yesterday. OpenP2P.com: The Music Piracy Myth [April 15, 2003]
MTU President Responds to RIAA Lawsuit
Below is the public response to the RIAA from the President of Michigan Tech University, where Joe Nievelt was sued to death for running a “Napster-like Service” a bit ago. Mr. Cary Sherman Recording Industry Association of America 1330 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 300 Washington, DC 20036 Dear Mr. Sherman: In response to your letter [...]
RIAA playing dirty?
Here is quite an interesting email about the RIAA, shamelessly snarfed from a mailinglist, from a person that has done a lot of investigating and researching. The articles he refers to are here and here. From: George Ziemann <wizard@azoz.com> Reply-To: wizard@azoz.com Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 22:47:19 -0700 To: tim@oreilly.com Subject: The Music Piracy Myth [...]
Nice try, goodbye…
Since this poor network admin doesn’t want to have to pay that insane amount of money to the RIAA, he has explained to some people what this so called “Napster-Like Service” is all about. It seems he has (had?) a search engine which indexed all, and I repeat all, files shared on the samba network [...]
Network Admin sued for $97.8 Billion by the RIAA
I pity the poor network admins that ran the mp3 peer2peer networks on their campus, and who the RIAA decided needed to be shut down. They’ve been sued by the RIAA over lost revenue, and as we all know, each and every downloaded mp3 is equal to a lost sale of the same song. According [...]
SpamBayes
Bayesian Classification of spam is really improving. My email reader, Gnus, has a pretty good interface to bogofilter, Mozilla 1.3 and above use it, and there are loads of implementations for Outlook from Microsoft. One interface to this ultimate spam killing technique, which I recently dicovered, is from SpamBayes and is called pop3proxy.py. The ingeneous [...]
RIAA strikes back… Again..
This time, they’re suing four network administrators running private “Napster type” networks at universities. And the poor network admins were just trying to move traffic that will happen no matter what they do from their expensive internet link over to the virtually free local area network. RIAA needs to wake up and smell the coffee. [...]