Excite @ Home / Cox Communications Internet Service Into “Bankruptcy”
Dear Cox @Home Customer:
As you know from our previous emails, Excite @Home, our vendor in
delivering your Cox @Home service, filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection
at the end of September. We have endeavored to keep you informed of the
potential impact this Bankruptcy could have on your Cox @Home service and
are writing to you today to provide [...]
Three Lawsuits and a Funeral
Here is an article that addresses the recent trial decisions regarding the the DeCSS case, Dr. Edward Felten’s case, The Dutch court’s order that KaZaa stop file trading in 14 days, and yesterday’s announcement by P2P software Xolox that it will be shutting down its service due to litigation fears.”
KaZaA to Comply
This article at The Register states that a Dutch Judge has given Consumer Empowerment (the owners of KaZaA and the FastTrack network) two weeks to cease all copywrite violations on their network. I would assume that it has been proven that the network is only partially decentralized and that Consumer Empowerment has the ability [...]
uServ: P2P Web Hosting system from IBM
The uServ system from IBM is a P2P application supporting easy to use, high availability web hosting and file sharing at an extremely low cost. The uServ project page links to a research report that describes an internal deployment of the system and provides a detailed description of the underlying technology.
DOJ’s Already Monitoring Cable Modems
According to this Wired.com report, Big Brother can snoop your electronic traffic with the greatest of ease. “Previously, federal law said that ‘a cable operator shall not disclose personally identifiable information concerning any subscriber.’ Section 211 of the USA Patriot Act changes the law to read: ‘A cable operator may disclose such information if the [...]
Ban on DVD-Cracking Code Upheld
A News.com Report says “The decision for now upholds a controversial law known as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and prevents Web site 2600 and its publisher, Eric Corley, from posting links to computer code known as DeCSS–a program that allows DVD movies to be decoded and played on personal computers.” This is a [...]
Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against RIAA
A Newsbytes article says “A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by civil liberties groups who claimed that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) was planning to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to keep a Princeton University professor from publishing research on security flaws in music industry anti-piracy software.” This is [...]
SongSpy on the Fritz???
The popular mp3 sharing program, SongSpy, hasn’t been working for the past 5 days. i wrote the staff an e-mail asking for information and i haven’t gotten anything back yet. i have tried un-installing and installing the program again, but it still gives me the same error message… “you are disconnected from the songspy network.” [...]
XoloX Being Discontinued?
I can’t believe, today when staring up Xolox you’ll read:
“Dear XoloX-user, Taking into account the latest law suits against p2p clients based on Fasttrack-technology (such as Kazaa), we have decided to discontinue XoloX. As of the 1st of december, XoloX will be be shut down and removed from the distribution sites [...]“. Eigther the dutch [...]
Busted for Using WinMX in Japan
“Two students were arrested on suspicion of the violation of the Copyright Act (infringement of a public transmitting right) as having exchanged business software with file exchange software ‘WinMX‘ (or it having changed into the exchangeable state).”Raw news (in japanese) | English (just push cancel on the language packs and give it a while to [...]
