A new bill proposed in Congress on Wednesday would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to a peer-to-peer network. The bill was introduced by Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.). They said the bill is designed to increase domestic [...]
Archives for July 2003
24 again!
The last couple of days, MrsFudge and I have been busy catching up on 24 season one. So far, we’ve gotten to episode seven and I must say I’m pretty impressed. The plot is thickening, and I have yet to be bored. I have no idea what twists and turns the story line is going [...]
Kazaa trying to go legit.
The owner of the popular Kazaa file-sharing network is announcing a bid for legitimacy today with a new trade group aimed at challenging the perception that file sharing is nothing more than a tool for digital piracy. File Sharing Firm Forms Lobbying Group (TechNews.com) It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this, [...]
Webcasters fighting back.
Small Internet radio stations, angered over what they say is the recording industry’s effort to wield royalty rates as a weapon to drive them out of business, say they are preparing to file an antitrust suit against the Recording Industry Association of America. The Las Vegas-based Webcaster Alliance will send a letter today to the [...]
Freenet vs RIAA
An email debate between Freenet’s inventor Matt Oppenheim and RIAA’s senior vice president on Freenet and the race between law and technology. Quite interesting stuff. Piracy and peer-to-peer | CNET News.com
Oggy Oggy Oggy – Ogg! Ogg! Ogg!
I just set up a 64 kbit-ish Ogg stream for our little internet radio, and all I can say is wow! I am impressed. It sounds way better than a 64 kbit MP3 stream. The meta-data system is actually well thought out, instead of hacked in like it is with Shoutcast. I’m also quite in [...]