Archives for December 2003

Rolling Stone interviews Steve Jobs

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, of Apple [...]

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 be active [...]

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”. This nettwork [...]