MPAA calls DRM an “enabling tool,” and that consumers who come by their content legally should be able to enjoy it “on any device,” anywhere, anytime. In a keynote address to Variety Magazine’s Digital Rights Management Conference yesterday in Los Angeles, MPAA Chairman and CEO Dan Glickman laid out some interesting details of his organization’s [...]

“Free downloads, no ads, no popups, no BS”. There’s a site I came across that offers video content without any of the usual program or connection hassles or even worries about being discovered on a shared network. Sceneban is a site that offers DIRECTLY LINKED DOWNLOADS from 3rd party upload sites, eliminating the need for [...]

While China warns the US about WTO piracy complaints, a $1 dollar bootleg of Spiderman 3 hits the streets of Beijing two weeks before it debuts in the US. As if the US wasn’t already angry enough over widespread piracy in China, it’s being reported today that the country’s infamous movie pirates have unleashed a [...]

A committee of the US House of Representatives has backed new legislation to outlaw spyware. Two previous attempts to create such laws have been blocked by the US Congress’s other chamber, the Senate. The chairman of the next committee which will judge the bill – the full Energy and Commerce Committee of the House – [...]

There will be a significant rise in virus attacks on both the Mac and open-source platforms, according to renowned security expert, Eugene Kaspersky. The co-founder and head of anti-virus research at Kaspersky Labs claims that Vista’s lukewarm reception will drive more customers towards alternative platforms, making them a more attractive target for malware writers. ‘Home [...]

China has rejected US claims that it is not doing enough to combat the illegal copying of music and movies, claiming that any attempt to penalize it would ‘seriously harm’ trade co-operation between the two countries. The US recently asked the World Trade Organization to investigate whether China is doing enough to reduce counterfeiting of [...]

Blu-ray took 70 per cent of the market for high-definition movie titles in the first quarter of 2007, easily outselling the rival HD DVD format, according to figures just released by the trade magazine, Home Media. Its dominance reflects a rapid turnaround in fortunes: in January HD DVD was in front. Blu-ray took the lead [...]

This time for merely linking to a story that a guy claims is “libelous.” Jon Newton, my “comrade in P2P arms,” over at P2P.net, sent me a note recently informing me of how he was recently served again with a libel related lawsuit. Wayne Crookes, the Green Party of Canada’s ex-financier, names Jon alongside Wikipedia, [...]

FON and Time Warner Cable have announced a deal that will allow Time Warner customers to deploy FON wireless access points and provide free WiFi access to other Time Warner (and FON) customers. FON is a Spanish company that sells (and sometimes gives away) wireless routers for people wanting to turn their home networks into [...]

Users will be able to access songs from the Sony BMG Music Entertainment catalog of music recordings for a predefined number of times for free. Qtrax, the upcoming first legal ad-supported P2P network due to launch this September, has announced today that it has added content from Sony BMG Music Entertainment to its offerings of [...]

Music lovers remember a familiar advertising image from the past: a man reclined in a chair, head back, blown away by music from his high-fidelity sound system. Like the Marlboro Man before him, Maxell’s pitchman is now a relic. With their ability to store vast libraries of music in your pocket, sleek digital music players [...]

We’re not sure if it meant to do it, but PLAY magazine UK has inadvertently announced a game we thought was a good four years away, with news that next month it has an exclusive on the SIXTH instalment of the best-selling crim sim. We’ve printed a picture of it below just so you can [...]

Amazon, the internet retailer, wants to launch an online music store next month to challenge Apple and is working on plans to sell music with reduced protection against copyright infringement. The internet giant has approached all the music majors in the past fortnight and said that it wanted to sell unprotected MP3 songs in May [...]

In case you missed it, the annual compilation of technical papers from the National Show is out. As usual, it’s worth a look, especially if you’re into immersion learning from the industry’s top tech thinkers. If your copy got lost in the stack, or you’d rather read the Cliff’s notes, this week’s translation focuses on [...]

Ryan Fitzgerald is unemployed, lives with his father and has a little bit of time on his hands. So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call. After posting a video with his cell phone number on YouTube on Friday, the 20-year-old told The Boston Globe he has received more than [...]

Found this clip on YouTube, it’s kinda cheesy but, hell he can play the piano and I can’t. I must admit that the lyrics of this song really resonate with me, and I’m sure they do with many of you as well. As for the quality of his singing? Eh, not great, and I’m sure [...]

A Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist says transferring large data files, such as movies and music, over the Internet could be sped up significantly if peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing services were configured to share not only identical files, but also similar files. David G. Andersen, assistant professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon, and Michael Kaminsky [...]

The new digital music subscription service will offer 99-cent song download purchases in addition to Napster’s unlimited content streaming service. Starting April 29, 2007, consumers can sign up for Circuit City + Napster at www.circuitcity.com/napster and gain unlimited access to millions of songs on their PCs and portable digital music players for $14.95 per month. [...]

Conservative MP Joy Smith introduces the Clean Internet Act. The Clean Internet Act (Bill C-427) is a newly submitted private member bill in the Parliament of Canada by Conservative MP Joy Smith, that among many things will mandate that ISPs obtain a license in order to offer internet services as well as require them to [...]

The Liberal Party in Norway has backed the legalisation of the sharing of copyrighted material for personal use. It is the first mainstream European political party to adopt a pro-file-sharing stance. The Venstre, or Liberal Party, is the country’s seventh largest party and holds 10 of the Norwegian Parliament’s 169 seats with 5.9% of the [...]