Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 13, 2004 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Piracy blitz unites film industry
Film companies in the UK have joined forces for the first time to convince movie fans that buying pirate DVDs funds terrorism and drug dealing.
The £1.5m Piracy is a Crime campaign, the biggest of its kind yet in the UK, was launched in London on Monday by broadcaster Jonathan Ross.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 13, 2004 at 11:01:00 AM CEST
Pirated Dvds 'More Lucrative Than Drugs'
DVD piracy is more profitable than drug trafficking, a new report claimed today.
One kilo of pirated discs is worth more than one kilo of cannabis resin.
Terrorists, people traffickers and paramilitaries are among the organised crime groups behind the £500 million industry, according to Interpol.
Now a new anti-piracy campaign has been launched to warn off consumers.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 1, 2004 at 1:30:00 PM CEST
Mix, Burn & R.I.P. - Das Ende der Musikindustrie
Die Musikwirtschaft wird das Internet nicht überleben. MP3s, Tauschbörsen und die jetzt einsetzenden Verkaufseinbrüche sind nur Vorboten einer sehr viel umfassenderen Krise, an derem Ende der Zusammenbruch einer gesamten Branche stehen wird. Parallel dazu entwickelt sich seit Napster eine neue Form der Musikwirtschaft, die an Stelle von Tonträgern und Charterfolgen auf das Internet und Filesharing setzt.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 29, 2004 at 7:04:00 AM CEST
Musikindustrie macht Jagd auf Online-Piraten
In der Schweiz sind bereits 800 MP3-Sünder ins Netz gegangen und haben Strafen bezahlt.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 20, 2004 at 12:13:00 PM CEST
Beastie Boys' New Album Silently Installs DRM Code
It seems that Capitol Records has some sort of new copy protection system, that automatically, silently, installs “helpful” copy protection software on MacOS and Windows as soon as you insert the CD into default systems.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 12, 2004 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Freie Netze und Mix, Burn & R.I.P. zum freien Download
Kostenlose heise-Bücher zum Deutschland-Start von Creative Commons
Am Freitag fällt auf der Berliner Wizards of OS-Konferenz der Startschuss für die deutschen Creative Commons-Lizenzen. Pünktlich zu deren Vorstellung werden erstmals zwei Bücher des heise-Verlags zum kostenlosen Download im PDF-Format ins Netz gestellt.
Freie Netze gibt es als freien Download auf
www.freifunk.net
Mix, Burn & R.I.P. kann über die Website www.mixburnrip.de<
heruntergeladen werden.
Weitere Links:
Creative Commons: www.creativecommons.org<
Wizards of OS: wizards-of-os.org<
Heise Verlag: www.dpunkt.de<
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 12, 2004 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
Music Industry Seeks Digital Radio Copying Limits
Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song copying if protections are not put in place, a recording-industry trade group warned on Friday. Without copy protections, music fans could cherry-pick songs off the air and redistribute them over the Internet, further deepening the copyright woes of record labels, the Recording Industry Association of America said.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 5, 2004 at 11:05:00 AM CEST
RIAA wants your fingerprints
Not content with asking for an arm and a leg from consumers and artists, the music industry now wants your fingerprints, too. The RIAA is hoping that a new breed of music player which requires biometric authentication will put an end to file sharing.
Established biometric vendor Veritouch has teamed up with Swedish design company to produce iVue: a wireless media player that allows content producers to lock down media files with biometric security. This week Veritouch announced that it had demonstrated the device to the RIAA and MPAA.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 1, 2004 at 2:31:00 PM CEST
Cinemas seek out Potter pirates
A leading cinema chain has equipped its employees with night vision goggles to prevent the latest Harry Potter film being illegally recorded.
Vue Cinemas - formerly Warner Village - has asked staff to check that audience members do not use video cameras to make pirate copies of the film.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 1, 2004 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Saugen, was die Leitung hält
Trotz sicherheitstechnischer und rechtlicher Risiken boomen Musik- und Filmbörsen im Internet.
Gerald heißt für seine Freunde Gary. Seitdem er aber über einen Breitbandanschluss verfügt, hat er einen weiteren Spitznamen: "Nilfisk", das Synonym für Saugstärke. Denn seine Freizeit verbringt Gary am liebsten mit dem im Szenejargon "Heruntersaugen" genannten Downloaden von Filmen und Musik aus dem Internet. Durchschnittlich etwa 20 Dateien holt er sich im Monat aus dem Netz.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on June 1, 2004 at 10:33:00 AM CEST
Using P2P Networks Can Now Lead to Jail in Italy
Italy's Senate has passed a law that makes sharing and also downloading files on P2P networks an offense that can lead to up to three years in prison. This penalty is about the same as the one for people who pirate CDs for profit.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on May 31, 2004 at 12:36:00 PM CEST
Undercover agents fight net piracy
He works undercover, has an online identity which he cannot reveal to anyone for fear of exposure and has to maintain anonymity or face threats to his personal security. In the murky world of organised crime and piracy, the investigator known only as Mr X has the job of, in his own words, "cleaning the internet of some of the filth out there".
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