Progressive Coder
The email scam claims that PayPal is trying to fight fraud, and therefore requires you to submit your personal data at a website the scammer controls for verification.
The website you’re sent to uses graphics copied from the PayPal site and looks professional.
The Register
So, if you get an email from verification@paypal.com ignore [...]
EMI, Universal Music, and several others are suing Napster as usual, for $17 billion, claiming it was responsible for a 9 percent drop in global music sales.
EMI and Universal Music are already suing Himmer Winblad Venture Partners for prolonging the life of Napster with their $13 million investment in 2000.
The Register
I guess the [...]
The news these days is plastered with stories of the untold billions of dollars the
recording industry is losing to digital piracy. On a recent plane flight from coast-
to-coast, after the main movie the airline showed a series of short films,
including one about how digital pircay was wrecking the music industry. Hillary
Rosen, the [...]
It has never been easier to be a white-collar
slacker. While the uninitiated are still grousing
about how mobile technology has created a 24/7
work culture and sabotaged their private time, a
savvier crowd has moved on to a more rewarding
pursuit: using technology to make it look like
you’re working when you’re not.
WSJ.com – [...]
Verisign has been granted a patent protecting the
lookup of domain names. The patent protects the
act of performing several look-ups at once, or
"performing a multitude of searches
simultaneously, transparent to the user.
"Specifically, the improved query server searches
for an existing domain name records in various
domains and then displays the results in a [...]
Ever searched for that infuriating song lyric
you couldn’t quite make out? If the music industry
gets its way, you had better sort it out while you still
can.
BBC NEWS | Technology | The joy of lyrics
It seems that posting lyrics from songs without the authors explicit permission is illegal. According to the MPA at [...]
WASHINGTON–The Recording Industry
Association of America apologized Monday to Penn
State University for sending an incorrect legal notice
of alleged Internet copyright violations.
RIAA apologizes for threatening letter | CNET News.com
Not really that big a deal, as it should be common courtesy to apologize when you falsely accuse someone. Microsoft has also made an apology like [...]
Some clever git has found a bug that crashes all versions of Internet Explorer since version 4.0.
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>
It doesn’t crash if you include a <body> tag, so it’s not widely exploitable in forums and such.
Four university students on Thursday
agreed to pay thousands of dollars each to settle
online music piracy charges, ending the record
industry’s most aggressive thrust yet against
individual file swappers.
Campus file swappers to pay RIAA | CNET News.com
The 4 students that were sued by the RIAA a bit back have all settled the lawsuits, [...]