BPI to threaten Kazaa users with court action
The UK’s record
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) has said 7.4 million people in the UK are swapping songs online illegally. “It is causing real financial damage to everyone involved in the business,” said BPI chairman Peter Jamieson. A new instant messaging campaign on the internet will be used to warn users they are obtaining [...]
UK record industry warns illegal filesharers – stop or risk court action
The British record industry has put illegal filesharers of music on notice that if they continue with their activities they risk court action. UK record companies’ trade association the BPI (British Phonographic Industry) this morning unveiled research indicating that 8.0m people in the UK claim to be downloading music – 92% of them (7.4m people) [...]
Five Northern Colorado Students hit by John Doe Lawsuits
In a letter received today by University President Kay Norton, RIAA President Cary Sherman declares war on student file-sharers.
Dear President Norton:
I am President of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). I wanted to give you a personal “heads up” that tomorrow, Tuesday, March 23rd, several of the RIAA’s member companies will file a [...]
New Zealand Government: You can copy CDs legally
New Zealanders are to be given the legal right to copy CDs, but under condition that they own a genuine, original recording. It will also be made possible for consumers to shift the format of music from CD to MP3 without infringing copyright.
The New Zealand government will introduce a ‘fair use’ clause into their 1994 [...]
Fox Employee Investigated in Film Piracy Probe
From The Smoking Gun:
“. . . Secret Service agents last month raided the Los Angeles home of a
Fox Entertainment employee suspected of involvement in an online conspiracy . .
. According to the . . . Secret Service affidavit, more than a dozen illegally
duplicated movies were actually housed on a Fox computer server (along with
pirated computer [...]
Valenti to Step down
The Gate Reports: According to Reuters, it looks like Jack Valenti’s days as the chief executive officer of the Motion Picture Association of America are numbered. That’s the word at least after the film advocate reportedly told media at the ShoWest convention that he expects to retire within the next few months. “This is the [...]
Record Industry Sues 532 More U.S. File-Sharers
Officials for several of the universities involved, including George Washington University, Loyola Marymount University, University of Southern California and Stanford University had no immediate comment.
Several commercial online music services like Napster, the once-renegade song-swap service relaunched as a legal business by parent company Roxio Inc. in October 2003, are increasingly marketing themselves to colleges and [...]
MusicBrainz Tagger 0.10.3
The MusicBrainz Tagger application allows you to automatically look up the tracks in your music collection and then write clean metadata tags (ID3 tags or Vorbis comment fields) to your files. As you tag the files in your collection that MusicBrainz didn’t recognize, you submit the acoustic fingerprints (TRM ids) of your files back to [...]
RIAA site disabled for five days
As the Recording Industry Association of America continues its push to shut down digital pirates, the industry group suffered its own defeat online. According to data from Internet watcher Netcraft, the trade group’s site has not been reachable for nearly five days.
The Internet performance measurement company believes that the root of the outage is [...]
Diet K v2.62 build 6
Author: Chip WarnerProgram
Type: Freeware File Description: Diet Kaza
removes banners, popup ads, spyware, and more from KaZaa before they are even
downloaded. It can also filter your proxy to remove any spyware communications.
It makes searches quicker with more results. Removes all ads from the interface
of the program, including the BonziBuddy/shopping icons. Adds quick search
buttons to the system tray. It [...]
