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EMI, Apple to go DRM free
2007-04-02 20:04:00 Did they say free or fee? The Wall Street Journal reported that Apple and EMI will make a joint announcement today to sell large chunks of its music catalogue free of digital rights management (DRM) software. That will mark a reversal of the music industry’s King Canute like trend to cope with technology and the internet by ... More About: Free
DVD Copy Control licence so badly written it?s invalid
2007-04-02 19:57:00 US lawyers have screwed up the licensing specifications designed to protect movies from being copied, reports EETimes. A California court ruled yesterday that a Silicon Valley company isn’t violating the technology used to protect DVDs because the licence and specifications for the technology are so badly written. The decision marks a rare, though small victory for ... More About: Dvd , Control , Copy , Licence , Written
BT-chat.com announces FREE unlimited USENET
2007-04-01 17:30:00 We know we are a bit earlier than we said for May, but we have decided to launch our completely FREE usenet service. This service has been provided with a deal between us and giganews, and one of our ad partners. Visit BT-chat.com for more! More About: Chat , Free , Hat , Unlimited , Mite
Apple Hacks Our Hacks
2007-03-29 20:36:00 If you?re planning on hacking your Apple TV, if you haven?t already, I wouldn?t bother because Apple is only going to hack your hack. I suppose there is always a downside to the Internet. Apple caught wind of all the hackity hacks going around regarding the Apple TV and they?re taking appropriate steps to rectify ... More About: Hacks , Hack
Pinball software in P2P legal row
2007-03-29 20:24:00 THERE ARE a large number of very confused people in the UK who have received a letter from a firm of solicitors claiming that they are P2P pirates. The letters from a UK firm of lawyers Messrs Davenport Lyons claim that they have been caught distributing a piece of software called Dream Pinball 3D and that ... More About: Software , Legal , War , Ware , Soft
Milwaukee says NO to RIAA
2007-03-27 20:33:00 Deliver your own mail! Recently, the University of Wisconsin (based in Madison, WI) announced that it would not forward on threatening letters from the RIAA to its students. Now, some of the other schools in the system are going along with it in what can only be seen as a setback to the recording industry?s thuggish ... More About: Milwaukee , Riaa
RIAA vs Kylee Andersen, 10
2007-03-27 20:29:00 “Plaintiffs claim Michelle admitted to downloading and uploading Plaintiffs’ copyrighted sound recordings … However, that is not what Michelle said and it is certainly not what she meant. Of course, with RIAA’s counsel physically beating on the table, slamming down post-it notes with question after question … and scaring Michelle out of her seat, sending ... More About: Kyle , Andersen , Riaa
Jamendo hits the million album mark
2007-03-27 20:27:00 France’s Jamendo, the free music community, says it’s reached a milestone: it’s distributed more than 1,000,000 albums on BitTorrent. “Like some artists?” - it asks. Then, “Pay them directly or just spread the word about them.” And it’s all down to Creative Commons licensing. What’s the most downloaded album to date? Silence, L’autre endroit, released a year ago on ... More About: Men , Lion , Hits , Album , Mark
Sony unviels yet another cipher for DRM
2007-03-26 20:45:00 According to TG Daily, Sony ’s conjuring up yet another proprietary format instead of just making nice with the ones already available. Sony plans to reveal details about CLEFIA at the Fast Software Encryption 2007 conference, which will open its doors on March 26 in Luxembourg. So far,Sony has described the technology as a 128-bit block ... More About: Other , Another , Cipher
Three quarters of students ignore RIAA threats
2007-03-26 20:10:00 The RIAA CLAIMS that its policy of threatening students who it thinks are pirates is a great success even though three quarters of those targeted ignore its demands for cash. The RIAA has been offering discounted settlements to 400 students at 13 universities. Basically it tells them that if they pay about $3000 they will not ... More About: Student , Students , Arte , Three , Threats
Xtorrent 1.0 Review
2007-03-26 20:01:00 TorrentFreak has a review up for Xtorrent, the highly awaited BitTorrent client for the Mac, an excerpt: Xtorrent, the highly anticipated BitTorrent client for the Mac, is finally out of beta with a shiny 1.0 release. Here?s our review of it. Xtorrent, the new BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, just rolled out of the beta phase. ... More About: Review , Torrent , View , Rent
LimeWire doing well
2007-03-26 19:56:00 The marketing policy of Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 Organised Music cartel, is simple and direct and can be summed up in four words: Put the boot in. If anyone, and that includes little girls, doesn’t toe the corporate line, stomp them into shape. The Big 4’s unswerving ... More About: Wire , Lime , Limewire , Doing , Well
Big Music victimizes students
2007-03-26 19:55:00 Students who download and/or share music copyrighted by EMI (Britain), Vivendi Universal (France), Sony BMG (Japan and Germany) and Warner Music (US) are being held up by the industry and school staffs alike as criminals and thieves who must comply with Big Music online ’settlement’ options if they’re to avoid appearing in court. School administrators are ... More About: Student , Students , Victim , Advil
Apple TV hacked to run XviD, other formats
2007-03-26 19:37:00 The Apple TV has already been hacked to run non-supported video formats, according to a pair of forum users. Confirming Walt Mossberg’s claim that the media hub runs a custom version of Mac OS X, the technique involves removing the hard drive and mounting it on a Mac, where it appears as a native HFS ... More About: Other , Hack , Hacked , Form
Command and Conquer 3, already released by scene
2007-03-26 19:30:00 “The Scene “, probably collectively the largest target for the RIAA/MPAA and every anti-piracy agency around the world have managed to release the much awaited Electronic Arts game, Comm and & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars - Kane Edition, days before it’s official world wide launch. With all their meticulous work, it never seems enough from keeping the pirates ... More About: Read , Released , Release
Starz sues Disney over iTunes downloads
2007-03-23 19:27:00 Cable TV network Starz Entertainment said on Thursday that it was suing the Walt Disney Company, accusing the latter of violating an exclusivity agreement by offering its movies through online stores such as Apple’s iTunes Store and Wal-Mart’s Video Download s service. Filed in Los Angeles, the suit alleges that Disney broke a 2005 deal which ... More About: Itunes
Microsoft updates Vista for games and warez
2007-03-22 14:57:00 Microsoft has has released a Vista update targeted at hardcore gamers and the warez lot. Labeled, handily, as the ‘March 2007 Windows Vista Application Compatibility Update’, the fix is “a package of software updates that address common application compatibility issues in Windows Vista,” according to the firm. It fixes problems whereby games and applications may not install ... More About: Microsoft , Games , Dates , Updates
LeechThe.net sidebar updated
2007-03-21 18:56:00 Hi everyone, please find the updated sidebar of Leech The.net with added links and buttons. You’ll find links to TV Schedules, BitTorrent sites and plenty of Blog Directories to go through. Thanks for your visit! More About: Update , Sidebar , Side
BitComet 0.85
2007-03-21 18:39:00 A new version of BitCome t has been released, with new changes visibly more than the previous versions. Download More About: Comet , Bitcomet
Sirius and XM Slapped With Patent Infringement Suit
2007-03-21 18:30:00 Troubled times The times over at satellite radio companies Sirius and XM have been less than celebrative. Both companies are under fire from various industry organizations and the public in general for their upcoming merger. Earlier last month, the two companies agreed to merge in a $13 billion deal that would create the largest satellite radio entity ... More About: Men , With , Infringement , Ring , Fringe
DRM loses engineering database key customer
2007-03-21 18:19:00 A university has cancelled access to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) web-based database of technical papers, because the outfit is insisting on running digital rights management (DRM) technology. According to a statement here, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believes that the DRM technology severely limits use of SAE papers and imposes unnecessary burdens on ... More About: Engineering , Data , Customer , Database , Ring
BitTorrent to Launch Advertising Supported TV-network
2007-03-21 17:46:00 BitTorrent Inc. has plans to launch a free, ad-supported TV-network by the end of this year. It will hereby be in direct competition with Joost and online video services like YouTube. It is unsure if BitTorrent?s current partners like Warner Bros and 20th Century Fox will also make their content available for the BitTorrent TV-network. On ... More About: Advertising , Work , Network , Port
Calculate Your Optimal BitTorrent Settings
2007-03-21 17:44:00 Configuring your BitTorrent client is extremely important if you want to get the best out of BitTorrent. However, the settings pane of the average BitTorrent client might be a bit overwhelming, and some people just don?t know where to start. For novices, this BitTorrent settings calculator might come in handy. The calculator gives some good suggestions ... More About: Your , Calc , Late , Rent
Viacom?s ?double-standards?
2007-03-17 19:27:00 Viacom is suing Google and GooTube for $1 billion, citing Comedy Central as being among the sites being pirated by Google. But ValleyWag has a fascinating take on it, namely, why isn’t Viacom also suing other video sharing sites offering copyrighted material, “such as iFilm?” Why not indeed? ValleyWag believes it has the answer. iFilm, “is owned by ... More About: Standards , Double , Standard , Viacom , Anda
Download and p2p evolutions
2007-03-17 19:22:00 Around 50% of all Net users download and while young people are the most frequent downloaders, everyone across all age groups is into it with few discrepancies between the sexes. Free downloading is expanding, especially through p2p networks, and dominates the field overall, and, “To some extent, it is pointless to put illegal and paid downloading ... More About: Evolution , Download , Down , Load
P2P File-Sharing Ruins Physical Piracy Business
2007-03-17 19:20:00 If the likes of the MPAA, RIAA and IFPI are to be believed, file-sharing is causing worldwide havok, costing billions of dollars and creating unemployment. It?s true that some people are feeling the P2P effect; they?re called ?physical pirates? and one of them says that file-sharing has ruined his business. Tony started his life of piracy ... More About: File Sharing , Business , Piracy , File , Physical
Pandora no more?
2007-03-17 19:04:00 The RIAA has convinced the Copyright Royalty Board to release a ridiculous fee structure that will kill online radio. In other news, RIAA has been ordered to turn over its attorneys’ billing records in Capitol v. Foster by March 26, 2007 More About: Pandora , More , Pando , Dora
Microsoft investigates IE 7 vulnerability
2007-03-16 16:57:00 Microsoft is investigating a new flaw uncovered in Internet Explorer 7 that opens users up to phishing attacks. The vulnerability was discovered by noted Israel-based security researcher Aviv Raff. Using a cross-site scripting attack, an attacker can exploit a design flaw in IE 7, he wrote on his Web site. He said an attacker can create ... More About: Gate , Microsoft , Vulnerability , Vest , Soft
Google to Viacom: Nuts to you
2007-03-15 17:57:00 After Viacom sued YouTube/Googl e for 1 billion dollars, everyone thought Google would be really wetting places. Well apparently the tech-giant isn?t worrying much, saying that the DMCA justifies its actions and it?s not liable for anything . Says Alexander Macgillivray from Google?s legal mumbojumbo department: ?Here there is a law which is specifically designed to give ... More About: Nuts
Microsoft in DRM debacle
More articles from this author:2007-03-15 17:53:00 The current batch of Windows updates includes one rated ‘important’ which addresses an ‘issue’ in Windows Media Player 11. The problem is that portable music devices that support DRM to count the number of times that protected content is used can’t phone home with the data. As a result, subscription music services are unable to extract ... More About: Microsoft , Soft , Micro 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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