Negotiators at the United Nations World Summit on the Information Society said they had agreed to set up a forum to discuss "spam" e-mail and other Internet issues and explore ways to narrow the technology gap between rich and poor countries.   But oversight of the domain-name system will remain with the United States, a [...]

"We share the concerns of consumers regarding discs with XCP content-protected software, and, for this reason, we are instituting a consumer exchange programme and removing all unsold CDs with this software from retail outlets," Sony BMG said in an statement.    The XCP software used by Sony BMG, which was developed by British software developers [...]

"Today the Swedish record industry is for the first time announcing legal actions against large-scale illegal file-sharing," IFPI chief executive John Kennedy told a Stockholm news conference.   The move was "a very significant escalation of our enforcement actions for people who are uploading and swapping copyrighted music," he said. Sweden was joined on Tuesday [...]

The wave of action is being carried out by the industry’s top lobby group, the International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), and involves 2,100 legal cases in Europe, Asia and, for the first time, South America.   Singapore Police Force spokesman Inspector Mohd Razif said it received a complaint yesterday (Nov 14) from the [...]

WASHINGTON-A fatal car chase on November 10 between a convicted felon in Virginia wanted by authorities on several criminal charges including cocaine possession yielded hundreds of pirated CDs and DVDs in the man’s trunk, giving rise to a new kind of traded drug, according to the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) Inc’s Dennis Supik. [...]

Recently released data from research consultancy XTN Data shows that file sharing over the internet continues to grow and that most users are unconcerned by potential legal action.   Two thirds of people using file sharing software to access music were not concerned by legal action by record labels. Greig Harper, founder of XTN Data [...]

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The move is part of a concerted action that will be taken in 17 countries around the world Tuesday against offenders who illegally upload music files onto the Internet, said the Hong Kong branch of London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI).   Other countries, including Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina and Singapore are also taking [...]

The group confirmed the second stage of its crackdown against serial filesharers who illegally make copyrighted music available on the internet was underway.   Willie Kavanagh, chairman of IRMA, said it was regrettable that legal action had to continue against serial file sharers.   But he confirmed IRMA was seeking damages and injunctions against a [...]

A file-swapping network that let college students download movies and music at blazing speeds on the Internet2 research network has closed its doors, the latest casualty of entertainment industry legal pressure. The i2Hub network emerged in early 2004, taking advantage of the supercharged network that connects college campuses to let students trade files at speeds [...]

Sony’s recent DRM fiasco constituted a serious breach of customer trust by a high-caliber corporation, but is the half-hearted apology issued by the company enough? WIRED’s Dan Goodin doesn’t think so, calling instead for a boycott of the company’s products, as a means of setting an example. "But according to Dan, that’s just not enough: [...]

Verso Technologies, a leading provider of packet-based solutions, will likely ink an agreement with Chinese telecom operators to help them prevent Chinese Internet users from using eBay’s Skype VoIP software.   At the moment, a Chinese telecom carrier has started a paid trial of Verso’s NetSpective M-Class filter, which was designed to block VoIP calls [...]

L.A.M.E. is licensed under the so called Lesser Gnu Public License (LGPL). According to this license Sony must comply with a couple of demands. Amongst others, they have to indicate in a copyright notice that they make use of the software. The company must also deliver the source code to the open-source libraries or otherwise [...]

The move aims to alleviate the shortage of space on Wal-Mart’s shelves, which has been identified by Wall Street analysts and film executives as a cause for the slowdown in DVD sales. At the same time, it would benefit the studios by lowering their shipping costs and the expense of dealing with returned inventory.   [...]

The korporate kontrol klans have decided digital rental mp3 ‘services’ will be the way to go and that you will use them, like it or not.   Fostered by the Organised Music cartel, downloan subscriptions depend on your willingness to pay X-dollars per month for DRM tracks which become instantly unplayable if and when you [...]

Warner Brothers is preparing a major new Internet service that will let fans watch full episodes from more than 100 old television series. The service, called In2TV, will be free, supported by advertising, and will start early next year. More than 4,800 episodes will be made available online in the first year.   The move [...]

The deal means Snocap has now allied itself with all four of the world’s largest record companies. The company had already established relationships with Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music and EMI Group Plc. In September, the company also signed deals with various independent labels. Snocap launched in December. By using fingerprinting technology to identify [...]

In what could become a huge coup for Circuity City if this story proves to be true, the new generation console XBox 360 is to go sale this Friday at approx 2 pm EST according to the retailers website. If it truly backs up it claims, the retailer will be deluged with such a mass [...]

A San Diego-based company called Nethercomm is claiming that it is now in development of a system to use your natural-gas pipes to transmit broadband data at speeds of 100 megabits per second.   The glitch to this masterpiece? Um, it’s never been tested. Basically, Nethercomm is planning on using Ultra wideband, or UWB technology [...]

The Redmond, Wash., software maker has determined that the "rootkit" piece of the XCP software on some Sony BMG Music Entertainment CDs can pose a security risk to Windows PCs, according to a posting Saturday to a Microsoft corporate Web log.   The Sony BMG software installs itself deeply inside a hard drive when a [...]