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Some excerpts from the Computercops.biz article:
The EU has said the UK must apply new rules for digital copyright – but a bad law is made worse in the process.
The Directive says that devices that circumvent copy protection will be illegal to sell and own. Recording studios rely on such devices to make, manipulate and [...]

Interesting feature
about filesharing in ‘The Mirror’ – a UK mass-market tabloid newspaper. Basically:
Pre-recorded CDs are in decline, but record stores aren’t worried by filesharing – people will still buy nicely-packaged original music/films by choice (not by RI/MPAA threats).
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CD R.I.P.

Why your shiny new album collection is being made obsolete by the march of MP3

By David [...]

If you live in the 26th Congressional District of California, Rep. Howard Berman is hosting a Town Hall meeting here:
Thursday, August 8th, 6pm
Sepulveda Middle School Auditorium
Corner of Plummer and Sepulveda, North Hills, CA

Find out if your in Berman’s district by clicking here!
I’m sure we can’t change his mind, but at the very least he can [...]

I fixed a bug and made it so that if Windows Explorer crashes, the program will automatically re-add its icon to your system tray.
Download

Consumer electronics maker JVC and games developer Hudson Soft have developed a new copy-protection technology that they claim will prevent CD-ROM discs from being copied, the companies said on Wednesday. The technology, called “Root”, marks the latest effort by the computer industry to control software piracy through technical means

Full story at Zdnet.com

“Statement from Thomson Multimedia, mp3 Licensing

In a posting appearing Tuesday August 27, 2002 on the Web site ’slashdot.org’, an individual cited a change in the mp3 license fee structure of Thomson and Fraunhofer. The writer of the post apparently misread the mp3 licensing conditions, as Thomson’s mp3 licensing policy has not experienced any change.

To clarify, [...]

Today in the Chicago Sun-Times eBIZ Section… Downloads_blamed_for_CD_dip

Instead of Making Billions they are only making Hundreds of Millions.

Thats a Shame…

According to recent stories in the French news media, a new fake-file spoofing and interdiction startup called RetSpan (that’s “Napster” spelled backwards) is now in discussions with the major media companies. Panicked by the recent outing of Overpeer and P2P Overflow (stories that first broke right here on Zeropaid) the RetSpan founders have come out [...]

Winamp has released an update to version 2, which is great especailly with how many problem people (including myself) have been getting with winamp3.

Version 2.81 contains bug fixes, including a fix in the version update notification checking, and a variety of miscellaneous performance enhancements.

“WASHINGTON — Apple Computer has invoked the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to prevent its customers from burning DVDs on external drives. Earlier this month, the company’s lawyers sent a stiff warning to an Apple dealer, warning that a patch to Apple’s iDVD burning software ran afoul of the controversial 1998 copyright law. ‘They alleged it [...]