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“House Hollywood sock puppet Howard Berman (Democrat, California) may have gone too far in licking the boots of his benevolent patrons. Indeed, he’s gone and licked the shine clear off Motion Picture Ass. of America President Jack Valenti’s boots….” The Register tells it like it is! Read more about the proposed bill.

“…Rep. Howard Berman (D-California) introduced his much anticipated peer-to-peer legislation in the House of Representatives on Thursday. The proposal would give copyright owners, from Hollywood studios down to independent musicians, the legal go-ahead to employ a variety of technological measures that would stop computers hooked up to decentralized networks from trading. That would be bad [...]

A beta version of Windows Media Player 9 leaked out onto Internet sites Friday, providing an early glimpse at Microsoft’s upcoming Windows Media 9 Series platform. Version 9 appears almost identical to its predecessor on the outside, but adds DVD copying, improved encoders and better plug-in management. Cross-fade and normalization plug-ins have been included as [...]

“The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Thursday in an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright law. The suit asks a federal judge to rule that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is so sweeping that it unconstitutionally interferes with researchers’ ability to evaluate the effectiveness of Internet [...]

“…Perens said he plans to break the DMCA during a presentation on digital rights management (DRM) Friday afternoon at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in San Diego. He is scheduled to demonstrate a souped-up DVD player that can circumvent certain DRM technologies created to control the availability of DVD movies by region. “The issue is [...]

“…The annual software piracy statistics – published by trade groups the US Business Software Alliance (BSA) and Business Software Association of Australia (BSAA) – are compiled from several sources but none take into account the growing use of open-source desktop applications. The figures are potent weapons in a public relations war to chide users into [...]

Sharman Networks have released version 1.7.2 of KaZaA. Their website says the new version includes: New Anti-Virus Measures This release includes further protection for users against viruses such as Backdoor.K0wbot.1.3.B. and Benjamin Bug fixes A rare vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in in which an attacker could crash your KaZaA . This is fixed [...]

Infineon has created is a 1.25-inch-square MP3 player, controlled by a half-inch-square chip, that is woven into a jacket. The 8g unit uses a small battery and a multimedia card (MMC), but is otherwise invisible to the user, all its functions being controlled by voice commands. Infineon’s technology, announced in April as the culmination of [...]

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CD Freaks.com reports that one of the larger broadband ISPs in Israel (012), appears to have found the solution for RIAA’s problem by – without informing their subscribers – limiting the bandwidth of P2P file sharing programs such as KaZaA and eDonkey. This is apparently done by using the port number of the outgoing packets. [...]

Team Xolox announced yesterday that it has released a new version of XoloX that integrates functionality allowing users to preview segments of a file before downloading thereby allowing users to easily identify content and to ensure that the file they are downloading contains the content they want. It also includes a media management tools that [...]

A Slashdot reader posted, “Safeweb cancelled their free service late last year, but their P2P anonymizing proxy, Triangle Boy, has been spotted in the wild…” “Triangle Boy is a peer-to-peer application that users can download for free. The user connects to a Triangleboy-enabled network of computers acting as servers in a way that lets them [...]

“…In a letter Friday to Michael K. Powell, the chairman of the F.C.C., Representative Billy Tauzin, a Lousiana Republican who is chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and Representative John D. Dingell, a Michigan Democrat, wrote that the agency should move quickly to require computer and consumer electronics manufacturers to include anti-piracy technology [...]

Looks like Hollywood wants to be able to ping flood you if you share files… “…On Monday, a lawyer for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said to expect new bills soon to assail illicit peer-to-peer file trading and curtail the piracy of digital TV broadcasts. Fritz Attaway, the MPAA’s senior vice president for [...]

ocbMaurice Server list is simply the best eDonkey2000 server list around. But eDonkey Bot users can’t use it. A BOT downloadable ocbMaurice Server list Mirror has been created. It syncs with ocbMaurice all/max list every 30 minutes. Bot users just copy & paste the server.met link to their “Pulse Update” menu and they will have [...]

CDFreaks are Claiming that the RIAA is searching for Grokster users on the FastTrack network that are sharing copyrighted music files. If they find a user then they are contacting Grokster who are apparently sending out this to the user Dear *******, Grokster has been notified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) of [...]

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