Nearly One-Half Of Americans Aware Of Online Movie Downloading
Ipsos-Insight, a global marketing research firm published a paper outlining findings in a recent study about video/movie downloading. Ipsos reports that 100 million Americans are aware of internet movie downloading and show signs of the early mp3 download movement. This topic “movie downloading on the rise” has been the talk of the town for the [...]
Jef Raskin, Macintosh Creator, Dies at 61
As Apple Computer employee number 31, Raskin advanced the design of user interfaces.
Jef Raskin, the lead designer of the first Macintosh computer and a pioneer in the development of user interfaces, died Saturday at age 61. He had been diagnosed recently with pancreatic cancer, his family says in a statement.
Raskin joined Apple Computer in [...]
Altnet to Appease Independent Record Labels
The concept of commercial file-sharing or P2P is hardly a new idea. Some of the more recent memories of commercial P2P was Napster, Inc. Towards the end of its beleaguered life, this once proud P2P network teamed up with German Entertainment company Bertelsmann BMG.
This occurred during the latter parts of Napster’s life, specifically in October [...]
Microsoft disables OEM Windows product keys
Microsoft is changing its activation policy for new copies of Windows XP. From the 28th of February Microsoft plans to disable internet activation for XP product keys printed on the Certificates of Authority (CoA) labels from the world’s top 20 OEMS.
The move should not affect most customers who have Windows XP preinstalled on their machines [...]
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FireFox Spyware Hoax Spreads
On February 16, 2005, Microsoft released their anti-spyware agent name “Microsoft AntiSpyware.” The response from the release so far has been generally well received, even if it was not home grown by Microsoft. Microsoft bought the intellectual property rights of Giant AntiSpyware, and marketed it under their own name. The software is free of charge. [...]
UK Computer Magazine Harnesses the Power of Torrents
Once again proving how ridiculous efforts of lawmakers to outlaw file sharing technology truly is, the online magazine Home Computer Magazine has decided to harness the powerful technology of Bit Torrent.
David Talyor, creator of the magazine says, “When we were looking at creating this magazine, we realized that the potential load on our server [...]
Beatallica.com and Beatallica.org Taken down
On Feb. 17th, 2005 a cease-and-desist letter was issued to the host of betallica.com, by Sony/ATV claiming “substantial and irreparable injury”. Beatallica are Beatles cover/parody band, playing all your favourite Beatles songs in the style of Metallica.
However, Songs like “Leper Madonna” & “Everybody’s Got A Ticket To Ride Except For Me And My Lightning”, [...]
MPAA’s third round of anti-piracy campaign begins
Motion Picture Association of American (MPAA) Thursday announced the beginning of a third round of anti-piracy campaign targeting people who upload or download pirated movies, including films nominated for the upcoming Academy Awards.MPAA officials declined to say how many suits it had filed or whether the illegal copies were made by video camera taping in [...]
RIAA appeals ruling in legal flap over copyright subpoenas
The recording industry is appealing a federal court’s ruling that it can’t force Internet providers to identify music downloaders under a disputed copyright law, calling such pressure “a critically important tool” in blunting illegal file-sharing worth billions of dollars.
The Recording Industry Association of America wants the entire 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn [...]
