RIAA Ditches Meaningless Amnesty Program

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RIAA ends Amnesty program

RIAA ends Amnesty program 04/20/2004 03:15 AM
I really wonder how few people the RIAA actually signed up for the Amnesty program that allowed consumers to sign...

RIAA drops amnesty program

RIAA drops amnesty program 04/20/2004 10:08 AM
The recording industry trade group ended a program designed to protect illegal file sharers who come clean because of limited participation and questions about RIAA's ability to offer protection.

RIAA drops its Clean Slate amnesty
program

RIAA drops its Clean Slate amnesty
program 04/20/2004 10:00 PM
The RIAA claims to have dropped its amnesty program, but the real question is why?

RIAA withdraws prosecution amnesty

RIAA withdraws prosecution amnesty 04/20/2004 06:08 AM
Will now just sue

Music Biz Kills Amnesty Program

Music Biz Kills Amnesty Program 04/20/2004 04:50 AM
After a legal scuffle, the RIAA drops its 'Clean Slate' program that offered amnesty to individuals who admitted in writing to file sharing. The big stick of litigation seems to be winning the game.

Recording industry drops amnesty program

Recording industry drops amnesty program 04/19/2004 08:27 PM

FileMaker To End Upgrade "Amnesty"
Program In Sept

FileMaker To End Upgrade "Amnesty"
Program In Sept 08/09/2004 11:15 AM
FileMaker today announced that its FileMaker Pro 7 upgrade "amnesty" program -- available for versions of FileMaker Pro dating as far back as 1993 -- will end on September 17, 2004. By MacNN (via MyAppleMenu)

Recording Industry Drops Amnesty Program
(AP)

Recording Industry Drops Amnesty Program
(AP) 04/19/2004 07:12 PM
AP - The music industry's trade group has ended a program that offered to prevent people from being sued by recording companies if the downloaders admitted to illegally sharing music online, according to court documents.

Recording industry drops amnesty program
for online file-sharers

Recording industry drops amnesty program
for online file-sharers 04/20/2004 04:46 PM
SiliconValley.com Apr 20 2004 7:42PM GMT

algorhythms of the meaningless.

algorhythms of the meaningless. 05/05/2004 11:59 PM
The Collected Works of Racter: "A tree or shrub can grow and bloom. I am always the same. But I am clever."
Or, perhaps more useful than poetry, "A Method for Sorting Cows."
Have I read this before, or merely something like it? "A piece that is essentially the same as a piece made by any of the first conceptual artists, dated two years earlier than the original and signed by somebody else. "
In our confusion, we can settle for simple non-sequitor: The Ubuweb Anthology of Conceptual Writing.

Are IT Certifications Meaningless?

Are IT Certifications Meaningless? 06/18/2004 10:26 PM

Meaningless but semantic

Meaningless but semantic 09/14/2004 09:13 AM
At a session at foo camp, I went through the tentative chapter outlines of the book I'm plotting. My aim was to ruthlessly use the attendees, getting them to tell me where I'm going wrong and what I should be writing about. And it worked: They poked at the ideas and pointed me in many helpful directions. Thanks, y'all! And it just keeps going: I've been getting incredibly generous email with yet more information and ideas. For example, one came today from Angela Hey chockablock with examples. She writes about some initiatives that have struggled over how human-readable metadata should...

Making 'Organic' Meaningless

Making 'Organic' Meaningless 05/22/2004 12:43 PM

SF Chronicle: Organic Food FIght. The changes in the National Organic Program standards, made in April, expand the use of antibiotics and hormones in organic dairy cows, allow more pesticides in the organic arsenal and for the first time let organic livestock eat potentially contaminated fishmeal. Program administrators also reversed themselves and said seafood, pet food and body care products can use "organic" on their labels without meeting any standards at all.

America's factory-style farming industry is feeling some pressure from farmers who are willing to meet stricter standards for what they grow and raise, because some customers are willing to pay a little more for food they believe meets those standards. So what's the response from Big Agriculture, a business that gets billions in subsidies every year from taxpayers (subsidies that mock our claims of favoring free trade)? It's to lean on a wholly owned subsidiary, the Bush administration's Agriculture Department, to make the word "organic" meaningless. Slippery but clever, but terrible for genuine choice in the marketplace, something the Bush people claim to favor. What's Big Agriculture afraid of? Real competition, of course.

"High-Level" Considered Meaningless

"High-Level" Considered Meaningless 04/09/2004 04:10 PM
Once upon a time, the adjective "high-level", applied to a programming language, denoted an increased degree of expressive power, implying not only economy of expression -- terseness -- but an ability to encode new abstractions encapsulating notions not actually envisioned by the language designers themselves. In the decades since the lambda calculus was first elucidated, and embodied to increasing degrees in the LISPs and their successors, language designers have learned to enable many different kinds of abstraction, and have increasingly concentrated on providing the scaffolding needed to manage the complexity that comes with such power.

Online Privacy Policies Meaningless If
No One Reads Them

Online Privacy Policies Meaningless If
No One Reads Them 06/16/2004 01:21 PM
In a can-of-worms style legal ruling, a judge has dismissed a case against Northwest Airlines concerning how they treated customer info. It's already well known that many web surfers ignore privacy policies or simply assume that, if there's any privacy policy, their info must be safe. However, in this case, the judge ruled that Northwest did not violate its privacy policy in giving out customer info, because there was no evidence anyone actually read the privacy policy! In other words, even if a company has a privacy policy, it doesn't matter, because no one will read it at all. While this (rightfully so) worries many consumer advocates who are now pushing for federal privacy laws, it also opens up other possibilities. Almost no one reads software end user license agreements. In fact, that's one of the reasons why adware is so common - because companies hide the fact that they're installing all sorts of junk on your computer in the EULA. However, if you took this particular ruling and applied it to the EULA, you could conceivably claim that no EULA is valid, because there's no evidence anyone read it either. In the meantime, though, this ruling really just confirms what most people already knew in the first place: most privacy policies are completely meaningless. The only difference is they used to just be meaningless to the company and now they're meaningless under law as well.

V Two One ditches BT

V Two One ditches BT 09/13/2004 08:53 AM
Broadband mass migration to Telefonica UK

QRS ditches JDA merger

QRS ditches JDA merger 09/03/2004 12:10 PM
ZDNet Sep 3 2004 3:34PM GMT

Nortel ditches its CEO and CFO

Nortel ditches its CEO and CFO 04/28/2004 11:51 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 28 2004 3:35PM GMT

DoCoMo ditches 3

DoCoMo ditches 3 05/28/2004 11:00 AM
Silicon.com May 28 2004 3:55PM GMT

Sun ditches UltraSparc V and Gemini

Sun ditches UltraSparc V and Gemini 04/12/2004 04:53 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 12 2004 9:23AM GMT

Ericsson ditches Bluetooth

Ericsson ditches Bluetooth 09/06/2004 05:13 AM
The Register Sep 6 2004 9:23AM GMT

Siebel ditches boss

Siebel ditches boss 04/13/2005 12:12 PM
Long walk, short plank

Pru ditches plan for Egg sell-off

Pru ditches plan for Egg sell-off 08/03/2004 03:41 AM
The insurance giant drops plans to sell-off its internet banking arm.

Microsoft Ditches Smart Displays

Microsoft Ditches Smart Displays 01/05/2004 07:59 PM

Sony ditches illegal flyposting

Sony ditches illegal flyposting 06/15/2004 05:22 AM
Lambs gambol through the sparkling streets of Camden

Asono Play Ditches the Screen

Asono Play Ditches the Screen 06/24/2005 04:01 PM

Asono has released a tweaked version of their 'Mica' wearable MP3 player. Called the 'Play,' the unit is almost exactly the same as the Mica—it still looks like a little handbag—but the LCD screen on the bottom of the Mica has been replaced with two, iPod shuffle-like lights at the bottom in the Play. Navigation is don't through sound, including (they say), searching of folders and EQ adjustment. I can't imagine how'd they allow folder search with two LEDs and some beeps, but I didn't think you could build furniture out of sawdust, either, and the Scandinavians proved me wrong.

Product Page [Asono]

MS (nearly) ditches the PC religion with
home net plans

MS (nearly) ditches the PC religion with
home net plans 01/08/2004 08:24 PM
Maybe it's not the PC, stupid...

Iacocca ditches Bush for Kerry

Iacocca ditches Bush for Kerry 06/24/2004 09:12 PM

RIM's New Blackberry Ditches Thumboard

RIM's New Blackberry Ditches Thumboard 09/08/2004 06:30 PM

Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings

Disney Does Digital, Ditches Drawings 11/10/2003 11:19 PM
Slashdot Nov 10 2003 11:36AM ET

Google picks Nasdaq, ditches NYSE

Google picks Nasdaq, ditches NYSE 07/17/2004 11:27 AM
Cyber India Online Jul 17 2004 2:42PM GMT

Benq Ditches Microsoft's Media Center

Benq Ditches Microsoft's Media Center 06/01/2004 02:00 PM
Digital Connect News Jun 1 2004 5:43PM GMT

London council ditches Linux plans

London council ditches Linux plans 01/06/2004 11:57 AM
ZDNet UK Jan 6 2004 10:19AM ET

BT ditches broadband line length limit

BT ditches broadband line length limit 08/18/2004 08:52 AM
ZDNet UK Aug 18 2004 1:09PM GMT

Novell Ditches UnitedLinux, Joins
Eclipse

Novell Ditches UnitedLinux, Joins
Eclipse 01/22/2004 11:39 AM
Internet News Jan 22 2004 4:11PM GMT

Mozilla ditches browser suite
development

Mozilla ditches browser suite
development 03/14/2005 05:35 PM
The Mozilla Foundation said late yesterday that it is cutting off development of its flagship Mozilla browser suite with the current 1.7.x line but will back a community-supported version of the suite for those who want to continue using it.

Savvis ditches profitable spamming
customers

Savvis ditches profitable spamming
customers 09/09/2004 10:33 AM
After being threated with blacklisting by Spamhaus, Savvis has decided to remove 148 spammers from their network in the next 10 days. This follows a heated internal discussion on whether they should give the profitable customers the boot.

French ministry ditches Microsoft for
MandrakeLinux

French ministry ditches Microsoft for
MandrakeLinux 07/09/2004 08:40 AM
The French government has put its money where its mouth is and announced a deal to replace 1,500 copies of Microsoft NT server with home-grown open source Linux software from Mandrake. Several government departments, such as the Ministry of Culture, already use MandrakeLinux. But it recently said it was considering expanding its use of open source software. The Civil Service Minister Renaud Dutreil was quoted as saying 'the competition is open,' between Microsoft and Linux.

U.S. Cellular Begins Phone Reuse and
Recycling Program - Program Benefits
Environment, Proceeds Go to Charity

U.S. Cellular Begins Phone Reuse and
Recycling Program - Program Benefits
Environment, Proceeds Go to Charity 07/25/2004 02:14 AM
U.S. Cellular has taken the lead in protecting the environment by teaming up with RMS Communications to collect unused wireless phones to safely dispose of them and protect the environment and public health from hazardous waste. [PRWEB Jul 25, 2004]
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