In a seriously odd twist of events EU ISPs are working together on a new set of rules about how the providers are going to run their packages; and it's sort of a mixed result, the setup will make...
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A company in the UK by the name of Davenport Lyons is seeming a tad fishy at the moment... it keeps on sending out letters to people who have supposedly downloaded, or uploaded games via bittorrent,...
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The pirate bay, spearheads of the anti-RIAA/MPAA movement, have just had been blocked by an ISP in Denmark. Of course, the courts were involved, and it all boils down to judging whether the site is...
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The top European courts have today ruled once and for all that ISPs are not required to give up details of their subscribers in cases of a civil nature. This covers all cases where organizations...
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The IFPI, that company we all know and love, has come up with another slightly insane plan to destroy everything that looks like it may have once thought about sharing a file. They claim that Europe...
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CNet have written up a nice article summing up why it is possible that the "Net Neutrality" that is being contested and debated all over the place, may not be the answer to ISPs actively...
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The "first sale" doctrine is simple. You buy it. You own it. You can do whatever you like with it. In the digital world that's not so obvious. Record companies, software developers, and...
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ISPs used to protect their subscribers. No more. When they start selling entertainment and get in bed with Hollywood, you the consumer are back to sleeping on the floor with the dogs. AT&T, the...
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Magistrate Judge Lorenzo F. Garcia in Capitol v. Does 1-16 denied RIAA's ex-parte motion to force the University of New Mexico to disclose the identities of its students. RIAA ex-parte motions...
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Shelly Palmer interviews activist and attorney Ray Beckerman, author of the blog Recording Industry vs The People, which is "[a]bout the RIAA's attempt to monopolize digital music by...
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In The iTunes Plus Scam I shared how Apple and EMI are placing your name and email address in unsecured AAC files, risking your privacy and a lawsuit. There is a solution if you want to protect...
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Not to be outdone by Apple and EMI's scam (see The Apple iTunes Scam), LaLa and Warner are upping the ante on your personal surveillance even further. Forget claiming that some third-world hacker...
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apple itunes Plus is here. I recommend that you run away. Fast. It was announced with a big bang and the promise of free and open music. See Open Format Files Rate a 30% Premium. It went downhill...
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The Amazon Slingbox pioneered place-shifting, changing the location at which you watched a broadcast. The Slingbox lost a fan in Major League Baseball, which claims that it's not legal to...
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Another part of the RIAA strategy to prop up the major label cartel is seeing success as state governments are increasingly regulating the sale of used CDs. The legislation is under the guise of...
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RIAA is taking a new tactic in its fight on pirates of all stripes - jump on the Bush administration bandwagon to create a police state. The Bush administration, fresh on the heels of its success on...
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Proving that DRM will never die and paying customers remain enemy number one, an HBO executive revealed that the cable programmer has been stymied by the nasty regulators at the FCC. HBO Chief...
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Web 2.0 site Digg has bowed to its customers in a case reminiscent of the P2P and digital music consumer rebellion. The story revolves around a DVD cryptography key that allows DVDs to be copied. The...
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