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Back on January 8, the Massachusetts State Police ordered the RIAA’s investigator, MediaSentry, to stop conducting investigations in their state without a license. Now it turns out that they’re in violation of that order.
To say [...]
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At least for the time being, the RIAA’s Boston University subpoena has been quashed until the judge in question can examine the university’s terms of service for student internet access. This is another in a growing list of roadblocks, setbacks and outright defeats that the RIAA is suffering more and [...]
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Tanya Anderson, originally sued for copyright infringement by the RIAA in 2005 and has since been fighting back, has filed an amended complaint against the RIAA. This case is getting more interesting as it continues. The latest move is no doubt going to have the RIAA and their lawyers [...]
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Seems it wasn’t all that long ago when Comcast was caught deliberately spoofing reset signals to both clients and servers in the BitTorrent network, thus stopping transfers in progress.
Then there was a lot of noise made about it and unless I’m seriously mistaken, the folks over at BitTorrent started working on [...]
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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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According to a recent Wired.com article it seems that the FBI has been asking the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in “terrorism and foreign spying cases” to be allowed to use their “CIPAV” (computer and internet protocol address verifier) to snoop the computer activity of people and organizations that they’re investigating.
Problem with [...]
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I just read an item on Ars Technica that makes me wonder a bit. Apparently a couple of undersea cables have recently been cut and that’s choked off a lot of that country’s internet connection to the outside world. The cutting of those cables is being called an “accident” [...]
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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 [...]
