Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 6:39:12 PM CET
Music Exec: ISPs Must Pay Up for Music-Swapping
A top music executive said on Saturday that telecommunications companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) will be asked to pay up for giving their customers access to free song-swapping sites.
The music industry is in a tailspin with global sales of CDs expected to fall six percent in 2003, its fourth consecutive annual decline. A major culprit, industry watchers say, is online piracy.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 5:42:58 PM CET
Apple silences iTunes P2P software
Apple Computer has forced a developer to stop distributing a plug-in that turned its iTunes music player into peer-to-peer music-sharing software. The plug-in, called iCommune, allowed iTunes users to browse the music libraries of other Macintoshes over a network and stream or download music from them.
On Wednesday, Apple notified developer James Speth that he was violating the terms of his software agreement and ordered him to stop distributing the plug-in and to return Apple's development tools. Speth removed the iCommune download from his Web site.
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Topic: - on January 18, 2003 at 5:36:08 PM CET
I poisoned P2P networks for the RIAA - whistleblower
Gobbles", the German hacker who improbably claimed to have infected peer-to-peer file sharing networks and to "0wn" your computer this week, has confirmed that his brag was a hoax. That much, you probably suspected, as Goebbels (as we must now call him) failed to offer a shred of evidence in support of the notion that the RIAA was engaged in widespread intrusion of personal computers.
But meet Matt Warne. He has an interesting tale to tell.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 4:33:01 PM CET
RIAA, IT groups agree on digital rights
THE music and technology industries, which have often clashed in the past over how to limit the sharing of songs over the Internet, have agreed on at least one thing: the U.S. Congress should keep its hands off the issue.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA), and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) announced their agreement on seven broad digital content policy principles during a press conference here Tuesday.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 2:57:05 PM CET
Help stop palladium and TCPA
To: IT Industry
Palladium and TCPA are a violation of a users rights to privacy on their computer systems and are wrong in the emerging Open Source driven society. These innovations must be stopped, before they bcome out of control.
- The signers of this petition will not endorse the new Intel, Microsoft joint venture known as Palladium
- The signers agree that the rights of their computer usage rest in themselves, and do not lie on the manufacturers to take charge of.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 10:58:17 AM CET
Phony Advisory Attacks RIAA
A hoax message posted to two security mailing lists Monday suggests that the Recording Industry Association of America has hired a group of hackers who have developed a worm capable of infecting and shutting down peer-to-peer file-sharing software. The hackers claim to have released the worm, on the RIAA's orders, and that it now controls almost 95 percent of "all P2P participating hosts."
The RIAA said the message was a total fabrication.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 10:48:26 AM CET
Copyright truce for music, tech firms
Hollywood spurned a high-stakes agreement disclosed Tuesday between leading music and technology companies aiming to protect copyrights on digital movies and music without new government involvement. The unusual compromise, brokered among the music industry and some of the largest computer companies, lists seven “guiding principles” that the companies hope lawmakers will take into account as Congress develops future technology policies.
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Topic: - on January 15, 2003 at 10:23:46 AM CET
Antipiracy plan takes shape
The music and software industries have reached a "landmark consensus" in a divisive debate over copy protection, trade groups representing both sides said in a statement.
Details of policy plans endorsed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSSP) will be jointly released Tuesday, the groups said.
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Topic: - on January 14, 2003 at 6:08:01 PM CET
Music, Tech Groups OK Copyright Plans
The leading trade associations for the music and technology industries, which have been at loggerheads over consumers downloading songs on the Internet, have negotiated a compromise they contend will protect copyrights on movies and music without new government involvement.
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Topic: - on January 14, 2003 at 6:01:42 PM CET
RIAA Hack 11.01.03
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Topic: - on January 14, 2003 at 12:53:00 PM CET
Is the RIAA "hacking you back"?
The RIAA is preparing to infect MP3 files in order to audit and eventually disable file swapping, according to a startling claim by hacker group Gobbles. In a posting to the Bugtraq mailing list, Gobbles himself claims to have offered his code to the RIAA, creating a monitoring "hydra".
RIAA infiziert Tauschbörsen Sicherheitsfirma brüstet sich damit entsprechenden Wurm programmiert zu haben – angeblich bereits 95 Prozent der Clients infiziert. Für einiges Aufsehen sorgt momentan ein Posting der "Sicherheitsfirma" GOBBLES Security an die Sicherheits-Mailing-Liste Bugtraq. In diesem behaupten die SchreiberInnen vor mehren Monaten von der Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) mit der Programmierung von Anti-Piraterie-Software beauftragt worden zu sein. Das Ergebnis dieser Bemühungen sei ein Wurm der sich mittlerweile so gut verbreitet habe, dass die RIAA damit einen Großteil der an Tauschbörsen teilnehmenden Clients kontrollieren könne.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 14, 2003 at 12:24:42 PM CET
RIAA to release worm
Several months ago, GOBBLES Security was recruited by the RIAA to invent, create, and finally deploy the future of antipiracy tools. We focused on creating virii/worm hybrids to infect and spread over p2p nets. Until we became RIAA contracters, the best they could do was to passively monitor traffic. Our contributions to the RIAA have given them the power to actively control the majority of hosts using these networks. During our research, we auditted and developed our hydra for the following media tools:
mplayer (www.mplayerhq.org) WinAMP (www.winamp.com) Windows Media Player (www.microsoft.com) xine (xine.sourceforge.net) mpg123 (www.mpg123.de) xmms (www.xmms.org)
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