Progressive Coder
The Italian parliament yesterday voted in favour of imposing jail sentences of
up to three years on anyone caught uploading or downloading unauthorised
copyright material to and from the Net.
Italy approves ‘jail for P2P users’ law | The Register
And here I was considering retirement in Italy when the time came. Guess I need to rethink [...]
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is mounting a new
offensive against illegal file sharers. This time around, the RIAA is suing
493 "John Doe" defendants, along with 24 named defendants who had
previously been included on earlier John Doe lists and failed to settle out of
court.
BetaNews | RIAA Targets Over 500 [...]
The Recording Industry Association of America has discovered that digital radio
broadcasts can be copied and redistributed over the Internet.
Mindjack – Will Digital Radio Be Napsterized? by J.D. Lasica
Well, duh! Same goes for analog signals, people interested in ripping audio will always manage to do it, even if they have to plug the line-out into [...]
Results of Multiformat at 128kbit/s Listening Test
Nuff said. I’ve known this for a long time. Just wish it’d be more widely used and supported, but I guess MP3′s are too common for everyone to swap to ogg.