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Michigan has been taking a beating in the high-tech press and in Net chat rooms over an update to the state’s penal code that free speech activists claim is an unreasonable effort to stop Internet piracy.
Critics of Public Act 672, which was signed into law Dec. 30 by former Gov. John [...]

An earlier court decision that also said Verizon would have to give up the information had been temporarily put on hold. Thursday’s decision will force the telephone company to give up its subscriber’s name in 14 days, unless an appeals court steps in to block the decision pending further review.

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“Thanks to the internet, the music industry has changed, but it has taken a long time for the major labels to wake up to the fact, says Paul Myers

Friday April 25, 2003

It was always going to happen. The first of the major labels, EMI, is finally making a significant move to offer music online in [...]

From News.com: “A federal judge in Los Angeles has handed a stunning court victory to file-swapping services Streamcast Networks and Grokster, dismissing much of the record industry and movie studios’ lawsuit against the two companies.”

“Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose to employ it for both lawful and unlawful [...]

There’s been a lot of buzz about Steve Jobs and Apple making some big music news soon. In today’s Wall Street Journal they confirm that, among other things, Apple will announce a new online music site Monday, April 28th.

(An interesting side note, in the article they note how Jobs insisted and eventually secured the [...]

With this new release comes the following features:
- Participation backup and restoration
- Extensive online help for application and website
- Auto-updating functionality
- Notification of compulsory installation of a fileshare client if one is not found
- intelliLink generator with support for both URL and HTML links
The following bug fixes were made:
- You can now set seconds between [...]

AntiCap can reveal today that Telewest/Blueyonder have proposed the following draconian alterations to their ‘Acceptable Use Policy’ that would quite simply outlaw peer to peer filesharing and the running of game servers as well as other internet activity
The proposed changes have been posted to the blueyonder newsgroup hierarchy. Here’s an excerpt
Section 5 Internet Protocol Services
You [...]

AviPreview has finally done an upgrade.
The new version does the following:
-Index caching: dramatically increases index regeneration speed. You never have to re-index your partial download again.
-Error correction. Tired of AVIPreview by AJ stopping in the middle of a video (or even on the first seconds in some occasions)? This happens due to [...]

U.S. District Court Judge John Bates ruled Thursday Verizon must reveal the names of two Internet customers the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) claims have illegally downloaded hundreds of copyrighted songs from the Web. Bates also issued a temporary stay to allow the U.S. Court of Appeals time to consider the issue of a [...]

DescriptionKazaa Lite Toolbar is a customizable toolbar and web address bar integrated to Kazaa Lite
interface. It’s useful to open favorite web pages, web email, shared
folder or external tools (like Antivirus, Windows Media Player, Volume
Control, AVIPreview, Sig2Dat, etc.) directly from Kazaa Lite. Also
works with Kazaa Media Desktop. The toolbar also includes a File
Organizer that classifies the [...]