Progressive Coder
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 conference [...]
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 through the courts [...]
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 say, [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 and replies [...]
"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 of their [...]
"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," says [...]
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 RIAA hasn’t [...]
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 they’re from someone [...]