Progressive Coder
A pair of coders nurturing a deep antipathy for software pirates set off a
controversy Thursday when they went public with a months-old experiment to
trick file sharers into running a Trojan horse program that chastises users and
reports back to a central server.
SecurityFocus HOME News: Anti-piracy vigilantes track file sharers
According the the article, [...]
After several years warning of dire consequences for record companies
because of rampant music downloading and copying, the Australian Record
Industry Association yesterday released sales figures for 2003 showing an
increase of nearly 8 per cent.
Sound of cash registers is music to the ears – Music – www.smh.com.au
The Australian counterpart to RIAA is claiming that [...]
Internet music company Kazaa has failed in its attempt to delay proceedings for
alleged copyright breaches brought by the Australian record industry.
Federal Court Justice Murray Wilcox dismissed an application by the world’s
largest file sharing network to delay proceedings against it until a similar case
in the United States was finalised.
Kazaa fails to stall copyright case – [...]
The latest anti-piracy move will prevent you from making high-quality copies of
broadcast TV programs. And the new "broadcast flag" technology enables all
manner of other restrictions.
Losing Control of Your TV
This will apparently require all TVs sold in the USA to fit a chip which honours a broadcast flag set by the MPAA. If this flag [...]