Program points way to iTunes DRM hack
By John BorlandCNET News.comNovember 24, 2003, 5:05 PM PT
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The Norwegian programmer who distributed the first widely used tool for cracking the copy protection technology found on DVDs has turned his attention to Apple Computer’s iTunes.
Late last week, programmer Jon Johansen posted a small program called QTFairUse to his Web site, with little in the [...]
Judge Considers Pacific Bell, RIAA Case
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service The case involving a California ISP seeking to shield the identity of its customers from recording industry subpoenas may be headed to the same Washington, D.C., court that ruled against Verizon Internet Services in a similar case.The case, being heard in a San Francisco federal court, pits Pacific Bell Internet, [...]
eDonkey2000 Client 0.52
Author: MetaMachineProgram Type: AdwareFile Description: eDonkey2000 combines the strengths of Gnutella and Napster while avoiding their problems.It doesn’t rely on a central server yet searches are quick and your client doesn’t get bogged down with endless search requests.You have the ability to search all the files being shared anywhere on the eDonkey2000 network. It allows you to [...]
RIAA Goes for 15 year old in Seattle
Original story written by Slyck:Using KaZaA and the FastTrack network, Seattle’s 15 year old Megan Dickenson was sued by the RIAA, after sharing approximately 1100 music files. The RIAA offered a settlement for $3500. Her defence: “I didn’t know it was stealing, the website didn’t warn me.” The RIAA says that ignorance of the law [...]
Overnet for Windows 0.52
Author: MetaMachineProgram Type: FreewareFile Description: Overnet is a File Sharing program. This means that it will give you the opportunity to share files you have on your computer with other users on the network, and you will in turn be able to download files of them.
What is Overnet?Overnet is the most advanced file sharing application around. It [...]
Parrot P2P
The Parrot is a file sharing program. It allows you to share and exchange files with other people running the Parrot.
The Parrot provides sophisticated mechanisms to share locate and download content shared by other network participants.
Unlike any other p2p system the Parrot searches the entire p2p network for content multicasting the queries to [...]
KaZaA Media Desktop 2.6
KaZaA Media Desktop offers you a total media experience. It is a second generation peer-to-peer file sharing service with which you can search and download media files from other KaZaA users. You can also organise and play/view your media files through an integrated media jukebox, publish your own work, reach an audience and communicate [...]
RFID privacy scare is overblown
NOVEMBER 18, 2003 ( COMPUTERWORLD ) – The privacy scare surrounding radio frequency identification (RFID) tags is greatly overblown. No company or government agency will be secretly scanning your house, as is feared, to find out what products you’ve purchased. There is no feasible way to do so. But if RFID chip makers don’t soon [...]
Stealing musicians’ copyrights? This record label does the opposite
Wired.com
Record labels have long been accused of stealing musicians’ copyrights as soon as the ink is dry on the contract. Now, one small independent label in Great Britain is doing the opposite: It’s giving the rights to the artists — and anyone else who wants to use the music, too.
Loca Records wants to foster [...]
DRM music goldrush is a race for losers – mp3.com founder
Apple is leading a race of lemmings into the zero-profit business of closed music downloads, says the founder of MP3.com, Michael Robertson. “It seems kind of crazy to me, the economics don’t make sense,” Robertson told us Thursday. “Why are all these guys like Microsoft and Wal-Mart rushing into a business where the industry leader [...]
