... for illegally infecting your PC with spyware. At the moment it appears likely to walk away without even a slap on the wrist. Ed Foster is Unsettled by the Sony Settlement. He writes "I...
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Filed in archive Legal
by Marc on December 25, 2005
Google launched a music service that inludes lyrics snippets and links. Joe Gratz says "The snippets are short and help to identify the song, so they're probably privileged as fair use. In...
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Digital Music News analyst Richard Menta combines a Bit Torrent hack that downloads movies and a successful virus defense in a British child pornography case to posit a viable consumer copyright...
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Filed in archive Fun
by Marc on December 22, 2005
Enjoy the world map of SkypeNet's supernodes. "A Skype supernode is a dynamic peer-to-peer server in SkypeNet. A supernode is one of Skype's users. Powered by these unknown supernodes or...
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... sort of. Tiscali has agreed to supply PlayLouder MSP with broadband access. Tiscali is a large European ISP with 4.8 million users and 1.5 million with ADSL. The good news from the consumer...
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Or "And I'll thank you to keep your grubby little fingers away from my analog hole" Those crazy movie fellahs are at it again. They're going for the grand slam with The Digital...
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Filed in archive Legal
by Marc on December 15, 2005
Maybe. There still has been no actual court case and ruling on the value of an IP address and File name as evidence. Paramount's copyright infringement case against Ohio resident Russell Lee has...
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by Marc on December 13, 2005
The 7th circuit court of Appeals on Friday rejected Cecilia Gonzalez' fair use argument. She claimed the Copyright Act gave her the legal right to sample music downloaded from a P2P network. The...
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Filed in archive Technology
by Marc on December 13, 2005
Watch out Llama, you've got Muvi on your tail! That's LamaBox (cnet) and MuViBOXX (The Register) from Veritouch, a pair of home entertainment media centers connected to the Internet and P2P...
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Filed in archive Companies
by Marc on December 08, 2005
Distributed technology has the potential to remake entire industries. This column follows that in entertainment and the threat of file sharing. Another sector is now under attack: Gaming. BetBug has...
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Filed in archive Analysis
, RIAA, MPAA
by Marc on December 05, 2005
Andrew Kantor has a fine article in USA Today "For file sharing, it's the same old song" , exactly the same theme I covered in P2P Future Past Perfect: Industry Commentary where I...
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BitTorrent recently agreed to remove links to content owned by MPAA companies. No timetable for implementation was given. Unauthorized downloads are still facilitated by the Bit Torrent web site....
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