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That case where University of Maine students are going up against the RIAA is getting interesting. The RIAA submitted another of the ex parte (”ex parte” is legalese for “without notice”) discovery orders that they’re [...]
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Cornell University has come up with an Azureus Plugin called “Cubit” that I think is one of the first such that will give the ability for it to handle “decentralized approximate keyword search capabilities”.
This means that Azureus users would be able to search torrents currently available on the network. This [...]
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I’m behind on my Slashdot reading again. I just now came across the article about NBC turing on the broadcast flag on certain programs. By doing this, then programs like Windows Media Player and other software (and hardware!) that honor this flag which means it is no longer [...]
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That’s right. The Los Angeles county board of supervisors has taken anti-piracy efforts and jacked them up on bodybuilding supplements, creating a monstrosity of a legal situation.
This is going to allow them to close down a property for up to one year for violations of this anti-infringement ordinance and the [...]
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Rep. Howard Coble of North Carolina, a member of the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, recently wrote something recently with the sensationalist title “Share your music — lose your identity“, which shows that in my opinion there is a more than probable chance that he’s pretty [...]
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For a long time now the MPAA has been jumping up and down screaming bloody murder about how the nasty evil pirates are destroying their ability to make a profit. They spend a lot of time and money trying to convince people that we need to have special anti-piracy laws [...]
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That’s right… and it’s bloody well about time too. This comes from a slashdot story a couple of days ago. A judge in Maine has expressed the opinion that:
Arista v. Does 1-27 that the record companies and/or
their lawyers should be fined under Rule 11 of the Federal Rules, for
misrepresenting [...]
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This is hilarious. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), an organization that has become infamous for suing grandmothers and seven year old kids in their insane quest to control all music downloads and file sharing, was attacked Sunday by hackers that took advantage of an SQL vulnerability and apparently [...]
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Being a tad behind the times, I only just now saw a slasdot piece from the other day about ISP’s and their plans to filter traffic in an effort to stop the sharing of copyrighted material.
I can see that this is another one of those subjects that’s going to get a [...]
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That’s right. You can get a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate and several other software packages. Of course there is a catch (surprised? I’m not). The catch is that you have to let them monitor how you use it.
Frankly, I’ve already heard and read enough about Vista [...]
