Webcasters slap RIAA with antitrust suit
The Webcaster Alliance has filed a suit against the Recording Industry Association of America and five major record labels for anti-competive behavior. The case arises from a deal last year, details of which were first reported by The Register, between a handful of small webcasters and the RIAA to set performance royalty rates.
The WA alleges [...]
Meet the music industry agents that could ruin your downloading career.
Record-label hackers should wipe out the computers of people who swap MP3s. That’s the nuclear option Utah senator Orrin Hatch recommends. Meanwhile, peer-to-peer special ops have already begun. The courts have been busy – and are likely to get busier – with Recording Industry Association of America lawsuits. The labels have also quietly contracted elite [...]
Next Generation Freenet
When most people think of Freenet, they think of an ultra-anonymous, but ultra-slow P2P network that has a pretty quirky user interface. That could change very soon. The Freenet developers have been working on what they call “Next Generation Routing” which holds the promise of making Freenet smarter and faster than anything we [...]
Music Industry Unveils Tracking Methods
Music Industry Unveils Tracking Methods
Wed Aug 27, 5:10 PM ET Add Entertainment – AP to My Yahoo!
By TED BRIDIS, AP Technology Writer
WASHINGTON – The recording industry provided its most detailed glimpse to date Wednesday into some of the detective-style techniques it has employed as part of its secretive campaign to cripple music [...]
Businesses boosting anti-P2P software
From News.com: Reid Burch, network services manager for the Promina Southern Regional Health System hospital near Atlanta, was having a problem with slow networks early this year.
Applications were poky, pipes were full, and the hospital was inching toward buying new, expensive connections to keep up with the demand for bandwidth. But before paying the phone [...]
RIAA turns up heat on subpoena fighter
From News.com: The Recording Industry Association of America leveled a full legal barrage at the sole Kazaa user fighting its attempts to identify file swappers, saying she was indisputably a major copyright infringer.
In papers filed Tuesday with a federal court in Washington, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said it did not oppose the [...]
Blame Canada: Why The RIAA’s Fight Is Already Lost
Obtained from Tech Central Station
Blame Canada
-By Jay Currie
A desperate American recording industry is waging a fierce fight against digital copyright infringement seemingly oblivious to the fact that, for practical purposes, it lost the digital music sharing fight over five years ago. In Canada.
“On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the (Canadian) Copyright Act dealing with [...]
RIAA, studios gain P2P legal aid
From News.com
By John Borland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 26, 2003, 5:22 PM PT
Hollywood studios and record labels are getting allies in their quest to overturn a court ruling that said file-swapping software companies aren’t responsible for the copyright infringement of their users.
Several groups, including a list of legal scholars, international copyright organizations, legal music services and [...]
Zultrax 1.3
Yet another nice Gnutella client with a minimal user interface, perfect for users of older PCs or PCs with slower processors. It has no adware or spyware, requires only about 10MB of hard disk space and runs on Microsoft Windows.
Find out more about it and download it here
xMule Dev Shut Down
Taken from here
Apparently I have been subpoenad, personally, on 8-17-2003 by an as-yet
unknown entity under the DMCA clause, because of xmule, when it went on
to gov’ment radar w/ the e-matters.de alert The subpoena lasts,
suposedly, until Dec 6, when i must stand infrotn of a federal appellet
court
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