The chief lobby group of the nation’s major recording labels today said it would file hundreds of lawsuits against Internet users who illegally trade copyrighted music files. The lawsuits will target people who share "substantial" amounts of copyrighted music, but anyone who shares illegal files is at risk, RIAA President Cary Sherman said in a [...]
Archives for June 2003
RIAA targetting induhviduals
The Recording Industry Association of America said it has sent cease-and-desist letters to five people whom it suspects of illegally offering massive amounts of copyrighted music through peer-to-peer networks. RIAA warns individual swappers | CNET News.com Seems RIAA is once again trying to put a dent in the growing peer2peer filesharing systems by first going [...]
Orrin Hatch a Pirate?
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) suggested Tuesday that people who download copyright materials from the Internet should have their computers automatically destroyed. But Hatch himself is using unlicensed software on his official website, which presumably would qualify his computer to be smoked by the system he proposes. Wired News: Orrin Hatch: Software Pirate? Do as I [...]
Nuke them pirates!
A US senator wants to develop new technology which would remotely destroy the computers of people who illegally download music tracks. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Destroy ‘pirate’ PCs, says politician He could just force the pirates to run Microsoft products… Oh wait, they probably do.
Swedens EUCD Proposal
Sweden has announced its proposal for implementing the EUCD into its own legislation. Sweden has obviously decided to take things a bit further than EUCD would require. In addition to banning distribution of copy protection circumvention tools, Sweden’s proposal makes it also illegal to download copyrighted material from P2P networks, and also adds a levy [...]
Copyright Conundrum
Is downloading copyrighted music tantamount to stealing? Lawrence Lessig, an expert on Internet law from Stanford University’s Law School, and Matt Oppenheim, senior vice president of business and legal affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, answer your questions about this heated debate. Online NewsHour: Forum — Copyright Conundrum A couple of interesting questions [...]
Bill forcing Record Companies to be honest
"This bill addresses the core issue that has allowed record companies to under-report royalty earnings without any penalty. Under the current structure, there is no disincentive for record companies to provide their artists with an accurate accounting of their royalties," says Murray ((D-Los Angeles). Murray bill About time the record companies payed up. They live [...]
Kazaa Founders launch secure P2P.
"We expect to see PeerEnabler as widely used as Kazaa, over time," says Niklas Zennstrom, founder of Joltid and co-founder of Kazaa. PeerEnabler is a content distribution platform, including the p2p networking software component that’s, "currently being downloaded by web users and will shortly be delivered to and used by tens of millions of consumers," [...]
RIAA sues again!
April 3, 19-year-old Jesse Jordan received a call that changed his life. The freshman at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., learned he was being sued by one of the most powerful trade groups in the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). ABCNEWS.com : Record Industry Targets Teen Programmer It seems the [...]
YAWW (Yet another Windows Worm)
Several antivirus companies remained on high alert Thursday after the rapid spread of a new computer worm that includes particularly malicious snooping techniques. New BugBear worm still spreading Will this ever stop? And it’s always windows users that are affected… I wonder why? Anyways, remember to not open email attachements with Outlook (Express) even if [...]