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RIAA refused access to hard-drive
Recording Industry vs The People
In SONY v. Arellanes, the Court has refused to allow the RIAA untrammelled access to the defendant’s hard drive, holding instead that only a mutually agreeable, neutral computer forensics expert may examine the hard drive, and that the parties must agree on mutually acceptable provisions for confidentiality
Earlier, RIAA has used their [...]
BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison
BitTorrent Site Admin Sent to Prison at Torrentfreak
> The 23 year old Grant Stanley has been sentenced to five months in prison, followed by five months of home detention, and a $3000 fine for the work he put in the private BitTorrent tracker Elitetorrents.
I wonder why most torrent sites move to other countries, with a [...]
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
> MALMO, Sweden — It’s Saturday night and I’m lounging on a living room sofa surrounded by lanky twenty-somethings in shorts and deep tans. Across from me, a wire emerges from a green Xbox — modified to stream movies from its hard drive — and snakes past two dusty [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet
> Today, the Swedish Pirate Party launched a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. In technical terms, such a network is called a “darknet”. The service allows people to [...]
Debbie Foster to RIAA : Dude, where’s my legal fees?
Debbie Foster to RIAA : Dude, where’s my legal fees? – The Digital Music Weblog
> Debbie Foster, the woman in Oklahoma sued by the RIAA who asked for and won a motion for summary judgment, has finally filed her motion asking the court to force the RIAA to reimburse her attorney’s fees.
> The filing is [...]
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case | The Register
> A group of US record labels agreed to drop a music piracy case in the US after the alleged file-sharer argued that it could not be proved that she downloaded any illegal music. The case may set a precedent that undermines scores of [...]
Kazaa site becomes legal service
BBC NEWS | Technology | Kazaa site becomes legal service
> File-sharing site Kazaa will become a legal music download service following a series of high profile legal battles.
> The peer-to-peer network has also agreed to pay $100m (£53m) in damages to the record industry.
I remember trying Kazaa aaaages ago, and found it to be a [...]
MPAA is at it again…
bit-tech.net | MPAA is at it again…
> Meet Shawn Hogan. He’s your average 30-something computer programmer, probably enjoys walks in the park, candlelit dinners, and whatnot. He also likes the movie Meet the Fockers, and bought it on DVD.
> So imagine his surprise when his phone rang, and a lawyer on the other end said [...]
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10
NOVELL: Novell Announces Next Generation Desktop: SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 enables organization to gain flexibility in their IT infrastructure, have greater control of their environment, improve end-user security and dramatically reduce operational costs.
> It is the only enterprise-quality Linux desktop on the market designed for general-purpose business. Developed and backed [...]