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A federal court today ruled in favor of people using file-sharing applications such as Napster and Kazaa, notorious for illegal distribution of music files.
The ruling was a blow to the Recording Industry Association of America, which has been combating users and developers of this software...
Read More | 14 Days Ago | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: 10 Days Ago
Who could forget DVD Jon, the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption and landed DVD Jon in front of a judge. Which did not stop him from continuing his quest to free audiovisual...
Read More | Feb 19th, 2008
Yes, in a bizarre twist and turn of fate, the original bad boy of illegal MP3 downloads which then went legit and hooked subscribers into music with Microsoft's digital rights management system has changed tack and announced it is to sell MP3 format tunes. So, OK, maybe not a real return to its...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
A proposal from the French Ministry of Culture could hit online music and movie piracy very hard with a very big stick if it goes ahead. In addition to the existing law, introduced only last year, which made unauthorised file-sharing a criminal offence carrying a 30,000 Euro fine and up to six...
Read More | Nov 26th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Nov 27th, 2007
According to a legal document published at the Electronic Frontier Foundation site, the copyright Nazis at Universal Music Group might have bitten off more than they can chew when they ordered the removal of a Dancing baby clip from YouTube.
Stephanie Lenz posted a video clip on YouTube of her 18...
Read More | Oct 28th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Oct 28th, 2007
Many of the world's leading Internet and media companies, including CBS Corp., Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh Networks Inc., Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Company, have pledged their support to a set of collaborative principles that are...
Read More | Oct 20th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Oct 22nd, 2007
A statement from the All of MP3 folk reads "the service will be resumed in the foreseeable future. We are doing our best at the moment to ensure that all our users can use their accounts, top up balance and order music." This follows a Moscow district court ruling earlier in the month that All of...
Read More | Aug 27th, 2007
It seems like Apple is nearing a day we'd never think would come. This time it seems official. According to the reports, Apple and EMI have formed a deal that would not only allow Apple to sell EMI's music on their store (quite possibly The Beatles), but "large portions of these would be without...
Read More | Apr 2nd, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Apr 2nd, 2007
Google is being charged with content copying by none other than... Microsoft. They are complaining that Google is copying far too much information, information that many people make a living on. Google's been trying to make the whole web searchable, everything from books to news to...
Read More | Mar 6th, 2007 | Comments: 6 | Last Comment: Mar 8th, 2007
I am a writer by profession. Over the last two decades, I have been fortunate enough to have seen more than twenty of my books make it into print. Some have even sold enough copies for me to earn royalties over and above my advance. With publishing house marketing budgets ever increasingly being...
Read More | Aug 10th, 2006 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: Aug 12th, 2006
