Sony Corp.’s new PlayStation Portable is turning into a great tool for Web browsing, comics reading and online chat — and it also happens to play video games, movies and music, if you prefer that sort of thing. The $249 PSP handheld video game player went on sale in the United States on March 24, [...]

Big Music’s Japanese RIAA clone, the RIAJ, “will continuously take drastic measures against .. illegal use of music on the Internet that corrupts the ‘cycle of music creation’ and leads to decline of the music culture,” it says. This utterance came as Tokyo’s High Court dismissed an appeal against its earlier ruling against Japan MMO [...]

Like the NHL incoversant to Major League Baseball’s strike and aftermath of long-term consequences, so too the MPAA not ironically mimicked the RIAA litigation(s) and declined to set an example.  There are equally objectionable angles of dissession from the hardware & software companies’ innovations included with strings attached via proposed parameters (Induce Act, DRM, watermark,etc).  [...]

A Princeton student is worried he might face criminal charges and be thrown into jail on the instructions of Warner Music (US), Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Japan, Germany), EMI Group (Britain) and Universal Music Group (Vivendi, France).for sharing music online. The Four Horsemen of the Big Music Apocalypse think they can do whatever they want, [...]

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in MGM v. Grokster. The Grokster case, for those who haven’t been following it, concerns the liability of distributors of P2P software. As we all know, there are legitimate uses for P2P software (think BitTorrent and distributing Linux ISOs, which are legally free and clear for distribution) and [...]

AfterDawn to launch DRM-less movie download service 1 April 2005 5:20 by dRD Cuban AfterDawn Holdings Inc, the sole owner of the Finnish website AfterDawn.com, announced today its plans to launch the world’s first legal, fully DRM-less movie download service. AfterDawn aims to provide unlimited downloads of DVD-quality movies with a monthly subscription fee of [...]

The guys at P2PUnite.net have got a proposal to make. Don’t buy anything that is owned by a company represented by RIAA or MPAA (basically all music that is not owned by an independent record label, and all commercial movies). Also, they are proposing that we do not go and watch any of their movies [...]