When we first went to talk to these record companies — about eighteen months ago — we said, "None of this technology that you’re talking about’s gonna work. We have Ph.D.s here who know the stuff cold, and we don’t believe it’s possible to protect digital content." RollingStone.com Quite an interesting interview with Steve Jobs, [...]
Archives for December 2003
Bring a camera to the cinema and get arrested
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Sneaking a camcorder into a movie theater will soon be a crime in California under a new law designed to protect both copyrights and the livelihoods of thousands of movie industry workers. sacbee.com — 24-Hour News: National News — California law will ban recording devices from cinemas The new law will [...]
Arrests in Japan
A Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to keep user identities untraceable has failed to work–two users in Japan have been arrested. Japan police arrest two P2P users – News & Technology – CNETAsia One man (41) shared the movie “A Beautiful Mind”, and the other one (19) shared the game “Super Mario Advance”. [...]