Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2007 at 11:56:00 AM CET
DoD Warez Leader Faces 10 Years in Jail
After spending nearly 3 years in a detention center fighting his extradition from Australia, a leader of notorious warez group ‘DrinkorDie’ was yesterday arraigned before a U.S. District Court to face charges of conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of actual criminal copyright infringement. If found guilty he faces 10 years in jail & a $500,000 fine.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2007 at 10:37:00 AM CET
What is RIAA Radar ?
The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 23, 2007 at 10:36:00 AM CET
RIAA lists top 25 universities handing out piracy notices
The "good guys" have tried to tempt college kids with free legal music for far too long to no avail, and after continuous failed attempts at gaining traction here in the US, it's no surprise that the RIAA would devote precious man-hours to concocting a most-wanted list of pirating schools. It should be noted that the top 25 is based on the amount of warnings sent out from the university to its students, and some schools may be omitted simply due to a lack of response on the administration's end.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 21, 2007 at 12:13:00 PM CET
US copyright lobby out-of-touch
Internet law professor Michael Geist takes a look at intellectual property protection in the US and finds it somewhat out of step with the rest of the world.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 18, 2007 at 11:06:00 AM CET
MPAA Steals Code, Violates Linkware License
A blogger who wrote his own blogging engine called Forest Blog recently noticed that none other than the MPAA was using his work, and had completely violated his linkware license by removing all links back to the Forest Blog site, and had not credited him in any way.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 16, 2007 at 11:52:00 AM CET
Piracy case collapses in Russia
A Russian court has thrown out a criminal case against a rural headteacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software in his school.
The court in Perm, some 1000km (620 miles) east of Moscow, dismissed the case of Alexander Ponosov as "trivial".
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 14, 2007 at 10:20:00 AM CET
The New HD-DVD/Blu-Ray Hack: What It Might Mean For Us
That's the so-called "Processing Key" that unlocks the heart of every HD-DVD disk to date. Happy Valentine's day, AACS.
AACS, a DRM scheme used to encrypt data on HD-DVD and Blu-Ray disks, would appear to be cracked wide open by that short string of hexadecimal codes, as previously, only disk-specific Volume Keys were compromised. The new hack is the work of Arnezami, a hacker posting at the doom9 forums, fast becoming the front line in the war on DRM.
wired.com rack in Blu-ray, HD DVD encryption gets widerHacker cracks HD copy protection
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 9, 2007 at 2:16:00 PM CET
Unfairly Caught in Viacom's Dragnet? Let Us Know!
As an RIAA spokesperson famously put it when asked about the spectacle of file-sharing lawsuits against innocent grandparents, "when you go fishing with a driftnet, sometimes you catch a dolphin."
Well, with its 100,000 DMCA takedown notices aimed at YouTube users, now it's Viacom that is netting its share of dolphins. Among the 100,000 videos targeted for takedowns was a home movie shot in a BBQ joint, a film trailer by a documentarian, and a music video (previously here) about karaoke in Singapore. None of these contained anything owned by Viacom. For its part, Viacom has admitted to "no more than" 60 mistakes, so far. Yet each mistake impacts free speech, both of the author of the video and of the viewing public.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 6, 2007 at 1:13:00 PM CET
Deal ends Beatles' Apple battle
Technology giant Apple has reached a deal with the Beatles to end the dispute over the use of the Apple name.
Apple Inc will now take full control of the Apple brand and license certain trademarks back to the Beatles' record company Apple Corps for continued use.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 4, 2007 at 12:10:00 PM CET
The cost of a CD should be exponentially higher, according to the RIAA
The Recording Industry Association of America hasn't been making too many friends these days. I guess I should say that the organization does have many friends inside the music industry, because that's who makes up the the RIAA.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on February 4, 2007 at 11:19:00 AM CET
YouTube asked to 'remove' videos
Viacom, the parent firm of cable networks MTV and Nickelodeon, has told popular video sharing site YouTube to remove 100,000 "unauthorised" clips.
bbc.co.uk Viacom terrorizes YouTube with bullshit DMCA notices
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 28, 2007 at 5:14:00 PM CET
File downloading, if not for profit, not illegal in Italy?
According to this report, the high court of Italy ruled that downloading files - be it software, music, or movies - is not illegal if profit is not the motivation. The case in question was a lawsuit against two students who set up a p2p file-sharing network, and who were initially sentenced to one year in prison. But the highest judicial institution in Italy overthrew the decision, and set the two students free.
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