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 [...]
Archives for March 2004
ARIA boasts record CD sales
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 [...]
Kazaa fails to stall in Australia.
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 [...]
HDTV Recordings come to an end
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. [...]