US COURT: Record Industry May Not Subpoena Providers
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court ruled
Friday the recording industry can’t force Internet providers to identify
subscribers swapping music online, dramatically setting back the industry’s
anti-piracy campaign.
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Trust-client WINWASTE 0.108
WinWaste:WINW is a small worlds networking utility. It was inspired by WASTE, a P2P darknet product released by Nullsoft in May 2003 and then withdrawn a few days later. The WINW project has diverged from its original mission to create a clean-room WASTE clone. Today, the WINW feature set is different from that of WASTE, [...]
Kazaa Software Program Ruling Flawed
LONDON -(Dow Jones)- The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, or IFPI, said Friday that the earlier ruling on Kazaa by the Dutch Supreme Court is flawed, but still leaves no doubt that the vast majority of people using file-swapping services like Kazaa are acting illegally, whatever country they are in.
Following the decision, the international [...]
Filling a niche
As a panicked music industry contends with the growing threat of piracy, one corner of the business is enjoying immunity. No need to think out of the box when it comes to the box set, a hardy perennial that even the most cyber-savvy collectors still covet.
“You can download the music, but you can’t download pride [...]
Argentina won’t follow RIAA tactics
As in the United States, online music piracy is on the rise in Argentina. But in contrast to the efforts of the Recording Industry Association of America, the trade group representing major labels here has not employed a flurry of lawsuits to deter the spread of illegal file trading.
“We are not here to go [...]
European RIAA-style anti-file swap lawsuits ‘inevitable’
The European music industry plans to take the fight against Internet piracy right to the doors of file sharers with individually targeted lawsuits, the head of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) sayes. And the subpoenas could start flying next year. Writing in the IFPI in-house magazine, organisation chairman and CEO Jay Berman [...]
Newsgroups + Gnutella = Gnewsgroups
Newsgroups have more content than IRC or eDonkey which makes this interesting.Rare stuff would be available for longer periods than in conventional usenet.
“Gnewsgroups trys to solve two main problems regarding Usenet and peer-to-peer applications.
Usenet is more and more frequently being filtered and censored.
Peer-to-peer applications are limited to simple search services.
How does it work?
Gnewsgroups is [...]
A Net of Control
Unthinkable: How the Internet could become a tool of corporate and government power, based on updates now in the works
Picture, if you will, an information infrastructure that encourages censorship, surveillance and suppression of the creative impulse. Where anonymity is outlawed and every penny spent is accounted for. Where the powers that be can smother subversive [...]
Digital Music Portable Sales Double for 2003
Considering that the iPod has nearly half the digital player market, this is the type of news that gets Steve Jobs doing the happy jig. Not only have sales of MP3 portables doubled this year, they are expected to experience 50% growth for each of the next three years. This will further help Apple’s iTunes [...]
Canadians Beware
The millions of Canadians who share music files on the Internet should be prepared for the possibility of facing a lawsuit early in the new year, the head of the Canadian Recording Industry Association said yesterday. Brian Robertson told the National Post his organization will soon begin launching legal action against Internet music uploaders. Uploaders [...]
