Topic: - on January 12, 2003 at 11:32:19 AM CET
Want to know how RIAA.org was hacked?
wo weeks ago the Recording Industry Association of America website was defaced.Twice. Even more embarrassing, the crackers installed pirate music files on the site for download. But how? zone-h.org, a security site-based in Estonia, has uncovered the elementary mistake in RIAA's robot.txt files which gave the crackers their back door. This is our first exposure to Estonian humour. And we like it. The Register is publishing zone-h's entertaining treatment by permission.
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Topic: - on January 12, 2003 at 11:05:49 AM CET
RIAA defaced -again!
Reader reports are flooding in that the RIAA.org has been defaced - again. At time of writing, the site appears to be down, And several readers have been kind enough to include screen grabs, showing that the front page today carried the following message.
RIAA - 0wn3d by.... ;p oooh riaa want's to hack Filesharing Users / Servers ? - better lern to secure your own server... Sorry Admin - had to deactivate ur accounts - they'll be reactivated after 2 hours
greetz : Rage_X, BRAiNBUG, SyzL0rd, BSJ, PsychoD + all the others who want to stay anonymous :] wanna contact ? mailto:h4x0r0815@mail.ru
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 3:29:10 PM CET
Neue Gema-Gebühren für DVD- und CD-Rohlinge
Hersteller von (wieder-)beschreibbaren DVDs sollen der Gema zufolge künftig wie bei VHS-Kassetten 0,087 Euro je Spielstunde eines 4,7-GByte-Mediums zahlen - also insgesamt 0,174 Euro pro Stück. Die Speicherkapazität von 4,7 GByte entspricht der Gema zufolge einer Video-Aufnahmekapazität von 120 Minuten.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 12:33:30 PM CET
Gecrackt, geknackt, beknackt?
NEO PROJECT
Distributed Computing (DC) vereint die Kraft vieler kleiner Rechner zu virtuellen Supercomputern. Nur so, tönt das Neo Project, läßt sich die Verschlüsselung der Xbox cracken. Anfang der Woche sah es eher so aus, als hätte Microsoft das Neo Project geknackt. Gar nicht nötig, meinen DC-Fans dagegen, Neo selbst sei beknackt.
¬><a href="www.spiegel.de"target="_blank">Spiegel
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 11:08:26 AM CET
RealNetworks preps format-agnostic DRM
RealNetworks Inc plans to help prevent theft of digital content with the beta release of its digital rights management system, Helix DRM.
Traditionally, film studios and music companies have been less than keen to distribute their content in electronic form due to the ease with which it can be copied and distributed, usually via the internet. Digital rights management is seen as the solution, but so far has been limited in terms of the number of formats supported.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 1:08:03 PM CET
Teen Cleared in DVD Piracy Case
Court says okay to DeCSS
In a legal setback for Hollywood, a Norwegian court Tuesday acquitted a teenager accused of violating computer- security laws with a program he wrote to unscramble the encryption on DVD movies.
Jon Lech Johansen developed the "DeCSS" program, which circumvents the Content Scrambling System on DVDs, when he was 15. He said he wanted to play movies he owned on a computer running the Linux operating system, which couldn't unscramble the DVDs.
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Topic: - on January 9, 2003 at 1:01:42 PM CET
Illegal music sites 'here to stay'
Illegal music download sites will never be eradicated, the president of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has admitted. Cary Sherman told BBC News Online that music would always be available for free somewhere on the net despite costly court battles to shut down illegal music sites.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 10:40:30 AM CET
Musiker, Kopierschutz und der P2P-Flaschengeist
Bereits zum dritten Mal treffen sich in Washington DC Musiker, Anwälte, Politiker, Vertreter der Internet-Wirtschaft und Manager von Plattenfirmen im Rahmen des jährlichen Future of Music Policy Summits. An insgesamt drei Tagen werden sie auf zahlreichen Panels über die Zukunft ihrer Krisen-geplagten Branche diskutieren. Organisiert wird diese Konferenz von der Future of Music Coalition, einer Nonprofit-Organisation, die sich als Interessenvertretung für Musiker in Zeiten der Digitalisierung versteht. Als wichtigen Bestandteil ihrer Arbeit begreift die Gruppe die Weiterbildung von Musikschaffenden in Sachen Internet, Arbeitsrecht und Medienpolitik. 200 Musiker wurden deshalb im Rahmen eines speziellen Stipendiums dazu eingeladen, kostenlos an der Konferenz teilzunehmen. Für die Kosten kommen Sponsoren auf, zu denen auch die Band Pearl Jam gehört.
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Topic: - on January 6, 2003 at 1:15:58 AM CET
Hollywood ready to close digital locks
Lying dormant in virtually every digital cable box in America is technology that can prevent viewers from recording certain programs to watch them later. Soon, several Hollywood studios are planning to tell cable operators to flip the switch.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:08:28 AM CET
European Copyrights Expiring on Recordings From 1950's
European copyright protection is expiring on a collector's trove of 1950's jazz, opera and early rock 'n' roll albums, forcing major American record companies to consider deals with bootleg labels and demand new customs barriers. Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in Europe compared to 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:37:55 AM CET
Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked
The Recording Industry Association of America may not want people to share digital files, but the organization certainly seems to be in favor of open access to its website.
On Monday, the RIAA site was hacked for the sixth time in six months.
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Topic: - on December 31, 2002 at 10:07:24 AM CET
RIAA HaCkEd Again...
Yep it's true, the RIAA website, well known for being hacked has experienced the embarrassment once again. No wonder these people want to lock down all computers...they don't have a clue how to keep one secure.
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