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I just ran across an article on PC Pro news that shows Microsoft taking a giant step backwards on the issue of music downloads and DRM .

In the “About bloody time” department, I ran into a piece on slashdot that gave the good news. The RIAA has finally backed down and dismissed the case in Atlantic Recording v. Brennan.

Welcome back!There’s an interesting turn in one of those seemingly endless lawsuits brought by the RIAA against just about anybody they decide to claim has been downloading copyrighted music. In St. Louis, Missouri in the case of Atlantic Recording v. Raleigh, the defense has filed counterclaims that accuse the RIAA of a neat laundry [...]

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 Powered by Max Banner Ads Ars Technica has a report about the latest RIAA strategy to get people to pay up instead of fighting the lawsuits. Now, students who feel (I dare say rightly so in most cases) that they’re being bullied by the RIAA in one of their many copyright infringement suits, had better [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 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 famous for. This time however the judge refused to go along with it saying:
I [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I got thinking about our viking friends from the previous entry and it occurred to me that it could easily be the premise for a movie. Yeah, I know, it’s been done before with different people instead of Vikings but it still has potential for some serious fun.
I can just [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 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 [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads There’s an article on PC World that’s worth reading if you think that your ISP might be interfering with your ability to use BitTorrent applications.
They refer to a couple of tools, one called Glasnost and another from EFF called pcapdiff that they developed to allow people to identify potentially forged, dropped, [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads 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 [...]