Downloads rise as file traders seek new venues

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Seek other venues to teach IT, schools
without computer labs told

Seek other venues to teach IT, schools
without computer labs told 05/17/2004 04:45 AM
New Straits Times May 17 2004 8:58AM GMT

Shades of Silicon Alley: The Day Traders
Rise Again

Shades of Silicon Alley: The Day Traders
Rise Again 06/20/2004 01:57 AM
New York Times Jun 20 2004 4:53AM GMT

File traders digging in

File traders digging in 01/18/2004 05:56 AM
Software developers of P2P software are adding encryption and a host of other privacy features to help P2P users hide...

File traders put an end to Lollapalooza

File traders put an end to Lollapalooza 06/22/2004 03:43 PM
Hell no! We won't go!

Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders

Texas Rep Wants To Jail File Traders 03/20/2003 08:33 AM
kUnGf00m45t3r writes "There is an article on Wired about how Texas Rep. John Carter wants to jail some college students to scare people away from illegal file ...

Marking File Traders as Felons

Marking File Traders as Felons 03/19/2003 10:46 PM
felons .. Wired

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Marking File Traders as Felons.

Marking File Traders as Felons. 03/19/2003 10:26 PM
Wired News: Marking File Traders as Felons. Putting college students in prison would certainly teach them a lesson, but will the kids learn not to share or learn to vote?

File Traders Moving Further Underground

File Traders Moving Further Underground 01/17/2004 10:47 PM
This shouldn't be a surprise to, well, anyone, but the more the RIAA fights back against file sharing, the further underground file sharing goes. The latest efforts include building in more anonymity to file sharing services, and also designing systems to make it easier to figure out which files were legitimate, and which were fakes, viruses or spyware. This is only going to continue until the recording industry stops the current self-destructive campaign and realizes it's time to embrace file sharing and figure out ways to build real business models based on file sharing. Either that, or they can wait and let others do it for them - which is what appears to be happening.

RIAA goes hunting for 532 more
file-traders

RIAA goes hunting for 532 more
file-traders 01/22/2004 03:09 AM
Only 50 million to go

Movie File traders going underground

Movie File traders going underground 06/18/2004 03:18 AM

Sneaker Net seems to be growing in popularity with those that share movies. Seems Movie trading is down on the P2P networks and people are going underground and only trading with people they can trust. Portable hard-drives have made it more easier to sneaker net movies and music alike. [USA Today]

Wired News: Marking File Traders as
Felons

Wired News: Marking File Traders as
Felons 03/19/2003 10:44 PM

Music downloads on the rise again

Music downloads on the rise again 04/26/2004 06:12 AM
SiliconValley.com Apr 26 2004 10:03AM GMT

US illegal downloads on the rise

US illegal downloads on the rise 01/16/2004 11:02 AM
The number of people downloading songs illegally rises after a six-month slump, US analysts say.

Music downloads on the rise again
(SiliconValley.com)

Music downloads on the rise again
(SiliconValley.com) 04/26/2004 06:08 AM
SiliconValley.com - Internet music downloading is rising again, even as the recording industry's relentless anti-piracy campaign has scared millions of adults away from unauthorized file-swapping networks.

Rise and rise of file-sharing

Rise and rise of file-sharing 03/29/2005 03:58 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Mon Mar 28, 03:48 pm GMT

Legal song downloads rise tenfold

Legal song downloads rise tenfold 08/21/2004 12:59 AM
News.bbc.co.uk - Fri Aug 20, 11:05 am GMT

Illegal movie downloads on the rise,
says the MPAA

Illegal movie downloads on the rise,
says the MPAA 07/10/2004 12:48 PM
25% of all Internet users have downloaded motion pictures illegally, according to the MPAA. Are downloads really costing them money, though?

Finance Ministers Seek a Cut in Oil
Prices and a Rise in Output

Finance Ministers Seek a Cut in Oil
Prices and a Rise in Output 05/24/2004 07:30 AM
Finance ministers from the United States and other major industrialized countries, hoping to affect the outcome of a battle within the Organization for the Petroleum Exporting Countries, formally demanded yesterday that oil-exporting nations raise production and lower prices to a level

Mozilla Downloads Rise Following US-CERT
Recommendation to Drop IE

Mozilla Downloads Rise Following US-CERT
Recommendation to Drop IE 07/02/2004 09:19 PM

Re: File downloads in Opera at known
locations

Re: File downloads in Opera at known
locations 07/30/2004 05:27 PM
Josh Tolley (Jul 30 2004)

File downloads in Opera at known
locations

File downloads in Opera at known
locations 07/29/2004 05:19 PM
Rohit Dube (Jul 28 2004)

Prevent 'garbled text' file downloads
via server settings

Prevent 'garbled text' file downloads
via server settings 02/19/2004 11:38 AM
I've been trying for quite some time to fix this problem one software vendor at a time, but then thought the Mac OS X Hints would probably be a good way to get the attention of many software developers all at once. The probl...

P2P File Swapping on the Rise Again?

P2P File Swapping on the Rise Again? 01/17/2004 10:45 PM
Slashdot Jan 18 2004 1:28AM GMT

Illegal file sharing on the rise,
despite legal threats

Illegal file sharing on the rise,
despite legal threats 01/16/2004 01:00 PM
A more recent study argues that, far from being in retreat, file sharing is on the rise again.

Cometa's Venues Scrambling

Cometa's Venues Scrambling 05/24/2004 05:21 PM
Tully's and others figuring out next steps for Wi-Fi as Cometa slowly turns off the lights: You can tell how confusing the situation is when the Tully's VP quoted in the story confuses AT&T with AT&T Wireless. AT&T had invested in Cometa; AT&T Wireless is merging with Cingular. (After which point, AT&T will regain the AT&T Wireless name, very likely, and resell Sprint PCS service under that brand!) A Cometa spokesperson is quoted as saying McDonald's award of its entire Wi-Fi installation to Wayport did not have anything to do with the decision by investors to end funding of Cometa. From what I have heard from various sources, this is correct. In fact, given their investment picture, had they bagged McDonald's, they might still have found themselves in the same place. The report says that AT&T withdrew its backing from the venture, but that's incorrect. One division of AT&T that was reselling Cometa service stopped its reselling agreement, but the reporters imply this was connected to the investment side, which wasn't the case. AT&T and IBM made token investments in the venture despite being listed as marquee partners. This may have hurt Cometa's ability to raise money from other, small venture firms. The article also says that hereUare was a Wi-Fi casualty. While I can't tell what they're up to, they still have a live Web site, and Ikano appears to be using their system alongside their WiFi Metro purchase. It may be that this is just for appearances, but it's not clear that hereUare has perished....

A Search Engine for Meeting Venues

A Search Engine for Meeting Venues 03/31/2005 12:24 PM
Man, I could have used this at work about a month ago. It's a search engine for meeting venues containing information on almost 18,000 resources. It's called Eventective (and now...

EVDB - The Events & Venues Database

EVDB - The Events & Venues Database 06/17/2005 04:49 PM


EVDB - The Events & Venues Database
http://evdb.com/

EVDB helps people find relevant events and share their discoveries with others. They are building a worldwide repository of event and venue data that the whole world can use. Their goal is to help people discover all kinds of events they might have otherwise missed, and to profitably be the best at what we do. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

YAPC::NA::2005 Call For Venues

YAPC::NA::2005 Call For Venues 07/20/2004 01:05 PM
KM writes " It's time to throw open the call for venues for next year's YAPC::NA. You can get details on what YAPCs entail at http://www.yapc.org/venue-reqs.txt. When making your proposal, in addition to venue information and dates, do please make sure to ...

Public Events & Venues Security & Safety

Public Events & Venues Security & Safety 01/22/2004 03:30 PM
marcus evans Jan 22 2004 7:24PM GMT

7th German Perl Workshop: Call for
Venues

7th German Perl Workshop: Call for
Venues 07/04/2004 11:30 PM
asigel writes "The 6th German Perl Workshop 2004 is just over. Teams in Germany interested in the local organization of the 7th German Perl Workshop in Spring 2005 (before CeBit) are encouraged to contact me. An official Call for Venues with requirements ...

Toshiba offers new projector designed
for large venues

Toshiba offers new projector designed
for large venues 07/14/2004 12:06 PM
Toshiba has announced the addition of a new projector, TLP-X4500U, to its line of business models. Designed for use in such large venues as auditoriums, the TLP-X4500U features 4,500 lumens brightness, XGA resolution at 1024 x 768, 750:1 contrast ratio, two one-watt stereo speakers and DVI, S-Video component and composite ports. In addition, it offers picture-in-picture mode and horizontal and vertical digital keystone correction that helps keep distortion out of projected images. The new projector is available now for US$6,499.

"Harmon Leon went undercover to visit 3
venues of the ex-gay lifestyle around
San Francisco."

"Harmon Leon went undercover to visit 3
venues of the ex-gay lifestyle around
San Francisco." 12/24/2004 01:01 PM

web2zone® Launches Nationwide Network of
Video Game Tournament Venues - Announces
Intel and PNY Technologies as Charter
Members

web2zone® Launches Nationwide Network of
Video Game Tournament Venues - Announces
Intel and PNY Technologies as Charter
Members 06/22/2005 01:52 AM
web2zone, the nation’s leading retail Cyber Center, announced today the official launch of its new Cyber Square(sm) Alliance (CSA) initiative, a nationwide network of premium LAN centers for hosting competitive video game tournaments and events for sponsors, leagues and other organizations. The CSA will kick-off its inaugural year with alliance center partners in five major U.S. regions and plans to expand the network to at least ten regions in 2006. [PRWEB Jun 21, 2005]

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo

Oil futures rise above $44 a barrel Best
Buy 3Q earnings rise 21 percent Stocks
extend rally with mo 12/19/2004 03:28 PM
Seattletimes.nwsource.com - Wed Dec 15, 11:20 pm GMT

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts

Telus targets 28% rise in 2004 profit
per share on 5% revenue rise, cost cuts 12/20/2003 09:51 AM
Canadian Press Dec 20 2003 9:07AM ET

Day Spa for Traders

Day Spa for Traders 07/29/2004 08:30 AM
There is a way to pamper your portfolio by piggybacking on the cruising industry revival.

E-traders need better supporters

E-traders need better supporters 03/29/2005 04:43 PM
vnunet.com Mar 29 2005 8:20PM GMT

PC gives day traders sleepless nights

PC gives day traders sleepless nights 07/11/2004 01:48 AM
Times of India Jul 11 2004 5:41AM GMT

Traders Bet on Saddam's Ouster

Traders Bet on Saddam's Ouster 03/21/2003 05:59 AM
An online forum that lets participants place wagers on the likelihood of Saddam Hussein's removal from office shows greater confidence that he'll soon be out of a job now that the war has begun in Iraq. By Joanna Glasner.
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MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy
plague

MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy
plague 07/09/2004 01:30 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America Inc. (MPAA) warned against a "growing global epidemic" of movie piracy over the Internet this week, citing a survey of Internet users in which nearly one in four respondents had illegally downloaded a movie online. The study, conducted by online research company OTX, queried 3,600 Net users in eight countries, and was cited by the MPAA as the harbinger of the tough times the industry faces ahead in grappling with online piracy.

Quarter of internet users downloading
films illegally - MPAA

Quarter of internet users downloading
films illegally - MPAA 07/09/2004 10:19 AM
DMeurope.com Jul 9 2004 2:10PM GMT

Downloading TV Shows

Downloading TV Shows 08/15/2004 11:15 PM

Let's say I have a meeting on Monday nights during the time that Fox's awesome guilty pleasure, "North Shore," is on. I don't have a VCR anymore, so I can't tape it. And I don't have a Tivo either. What am I to do?

Well, I can download the show. There are any number of P2P clients out there with which you can get a perfect, full-screen, letterboxed, high-definition, stereo-sound copy of any TV show. An hour-long show will download in anywhere from one to a few hours, depending on the time of day. It's very practical to download a show you missed.

So, let's say I download and watch "North Shore." Have I broken any laws? It's not like I stole anything — I'm a paying cable TV subscriber and I have the cancelled checks to prove it. I could have watched the show for free if I was home during the time it aired. Additionally, if I had a VCR, I could have taped it and gotten the same effect — watching the same show at a different time.

This is called "time shifting." There was a Supreme Court decision back in 1979 about the VCR in which the Court ruled that taping a show and watching it later was legal — the user was simply "shifting the time" in which he or she watched the show. Here's a note from the Museum of Broadcast Communication:

Handing down its decision in October 1979, the U.S. District Court ruled in favor of Sony, stating that taping off air for entertainment or time shifting constituted fair use; that copying an entire program also qualified as fair use; that set manufacturers could profit from the sale of VCRs; and that the plaintiffs did not prove that any of the above practices constituted economic harm to the motion picture industry.

(The term "time shifting," incidentally, is where The Shifted Librarian draws its name.)

The only way I can see that someone got short-changed is that I didn't watch any commercials (on most posted versions, they've been edited out). So, this is a drag for the advertisers, but here's the thing: I don't watch commercials anyway. I'm a quick-draw on the remote when a commercial comes on. I channel surf until they're over. Or I get up and go to the bathroom,or get something to drink, or finally listen to what my little girl has been deperately trying to tell me since the last commercial. Additionally, if I taped the show with a VCR, I'd fast-forward through the commercials.

I think the content type matters. I very much put TV shows in a different league than downloading a movie for which I would normally have to buy a ticket, or music for which I'd have to buy a CD. I pay for cable, so in my mind, I'm entitled to watch the show whenever I want.

I also draw a distinction between distributing a show and receiving a distribution. I'm perfectly entitled to receive a distribution — that's what I do whenever I watch TV. However, you have to be careful with your P2P client because there's a good chance you could be distributing it as well, especially if you use a BitTorrent client or have it in a shared folder for something like Kazaa.

If you proactively distribute the show — make it available to others who may not be cable TV subscribers in a position to watch it for free on TV — then you may be guilty of something.

At the risk of sounding combative, who are the TV stations to decide when I have to physically plant myself in front of the TV? I put up with cable rate increases every year, so I'll watch the show whenever I please, thank you very much.

The bottom line, in my mind, is that I pay for cable TV. I'm just not home when the show I want to watch is aired. Am I over-simplifying this? Am I just trying to rationalize something? I'm torn.

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Is Downloading TV Shows Legal?

Is Downloading TV Shows Legal? 08/11/2004 02:35 AM
Salon is running a piece on how many people are sharing and downloading TV shows using tools like BitTorrent, some going a bit further than the original broadcat ching concept to create applications, like Buttress designed specifically as an RSS aggregator for BitTorrented TV shows. The article delves into one interesting issue that not too many people have discussed: is downloading a publicly broadcasted TV show illegal? As the article notes, it would be very difficult to show any kind of "harm" from such a download. Obviously, sharing premium content shows is a different issue, but what if someone already subscribes to the premium station in question? The real issue is that the TV industry suddenly has less control. There is also the fact that with the way BitTorrent works, anyone downloading a show is also automatically uploading a show -- but, again, this is a situation where the entertainment industry appears to be shooting themselves in the foot. For years, they've tried to come up with systems for TV-on-demand, and here's a way that users have figured out how to do it for them. The people downloading TV shows via BitTorrent are watching more TV, which should be good for the industry. Unfortunately, the industry still only thinks in terms of how much they control, rather than how much they can serve the needs of their viewers. It's amazing that the industry is so good at missing every opportunity that seems to come its way. Unfortunately, the industry also seems to view intellectual property law as a way of protecting business models, rather than protecting content. That they can't see a new opportunity staring them in the face speaks volumes about the sorts of "business" minds running the entertainment industry.

History repeats itself: Movie
downloading mirrors early music
downloading

History repeats itself: Movie
downloading mirrors early music
downloading 09/24/2004 03:39 PM
InternetRetailer.com Sep 24 2004 7:45PM GMT

Be your own MPAA

Be your own MPAA 05/06/2004 12:16 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

MPAA cam

MPAA cam 06/17/2005 05:09 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is paying the Los Angeles police department to install cameras to crack down on DVD bootleggers. So far four cameras have been installed and six more are on the way. Although the LAPD refuses to say where the cameras are installed, but there is information on Xeni's post on Boing Boing. The post also contains funny details of their adventure.

I hadn't realized that there was DVD piracy activity in LA. I wonder how much "lost revenue" they will recoup from these cameras. I wonder what else the LAPD going to use these cameras for. Having said that, I think we probably have more cameras per square inch in Tokyo than in LA. Welcome to our world.

Xeni has filed a story with Wired News about this as well.

UPDATE:

Xeni

Hi, Joi -- Sean Bonner created some topographical maps of the site, and posted those along with more photos and his first-person account over at blogging.la. Check it out:
http: //blogging.la/archives/2005/06/sekret_location.phtml

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LokiTorrent vs. MPAA

LokiTorrent vs. MPAA 12/29/2004 10:12 PM

Oh, Sure, Now The MPAA Settles With 321

Oh, Sure, Now The MPAA Settles With 321 08/10/2004 01:58 PM
Sometimes you wonder why they even bothered. After completely stompin g 321 Software out of business by saddling them with lawsuits claiming their useful software was a tool of pirates, rather than for backing up what people legally owned, now the MPAA announces that they've "settled" with the company. Seems like a Michael Corleone-style settlement. Meanwhile, Jack Valenti gets in a bogus quote about how this shows that there's no leniency for breaking copyright laws. Of course, there's never been any proof that anyone using 321's software broke copyright laws - which is something 321 showed by offerin g a $10,000 reward for anyone who could find a "pirated" DVD made using 321's software.

Debunking the MPAA

Debunking the MPAA 06/05/2005 11:24 PM

BitTorrent Facilitating Illegal File Swapping of Star Wars On Day of Opening

“Statement by MPAA President Dan Glickman

Washington, D.C. - - Responding to news reports today that BitTorrent is already facilitating the illegal file sharing of the final Star Wars episode, Revenge of the Sith which opens in theaters today, Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) President and CEO Dan Glickman made the following statement:

‘There is no better example of how theft dims the magic of the movies for everyone than this report today regarding BitTorrent providing users with illegal copies of Revenge of the Sith. The unfortunate fact is this type of theft happens on a regular basis on peer to peer networks all over the world.

Fans have been lined up for days to see Revenge of the Sith. To preserve the quality of movies for fans like these and so many others, we must stop these Internet thieves from illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials on-line.

If piracy and those who profit from it are allowed to flourish, they will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation; undermine legitimate businesses that strive to unite technology and content in innovative and legal ways and limit quality and consumer choice.’…

‘My message to illegal file swappers everywhere is plain and simple: You are stealing, it is wrong and you are not anonymous,’ said Glickman. ‘In short, you can click, but you can't hide. There are lots of ways to legally download our products through companies like CinemaNow, Movielink, Ruckus and others.’ ” [MPAA Press Release in Word document format only, via the Interesting People mailing list]

This statement would indeed be alarming, if it wasn’t for the fact that the original copy leaked onto BitTorrent was stolen by someone associated with the film and if “Revenge of the Sith” hadn’t made $50 million the first day alone. Glickman shoots himself in the foot by noting that the movie was pirated and yet “fans have been lined up for days to see” it. He wants to have his cake (fans lined up everywhere!) and eat it, too (but piracy “will erode an engine of economic growth and job creation”).

Explain to me again why Congress listens to him? Oh yeah - the money.

Hopefully they’ll cry wolf one too many times, and they and their record profits will be seen for what they really are – a successful business that needs no further legislation from our government. The legal business models Glickman refers are indeed working and with time, they will grow into a thriving business if they stop concentrating on disabling customer playback devices with overly-restrictive DRM and concentrate instead on producing a good product. Just like every other business out there.

MPAA under new management

MPAA under new management 09/04/2004 05:11 PM

Techdirt has a great article with a lot of links to the message being put forth by Dan Glickman. He is yet another idiot in the food chain that does not understand today's technical based marketplace. As soon as they figure out how to satisfy consumers and assure fair use rights remain in place the better. I have no problem paying for content I just want it packaged in such a way that once I pay for it I never have to pay for it again ever.

Example I buy a DVD, I copy that DVD to my hard-drive, 5 years from now when I break that DVD I load that archived hard-drive and I burn a new copy for my viewing pleasure. Better yet I stream that video directly from my hard-drive to my wide screen TV.

How many cassettes do you own that you wished you could have a pristine copy of? I bet you all have a lot that went into the trash and then you re-purchased CD's of the same music? [Techdirt]

MPAA Sued Over DVD Screener Ban

MPAA Sued Over DVD Screener Ban 11/25/2003 10:22 PM

MPAA could learn from RIAA

MPAA could learn from RIAA 07/14/2004 06:51 PM
CNET Jul 14 2004 11:23PM GMT

A kinder, gentler MPAA

A kinder, gentler MPAA 12/29/2003 12:12 PM
The Motion Picture Association of America has said that while movie piracy is a concern for the trade group, they will not pursue suspected individuals with as much furor as does the RIAA.

Memo to the New Head of the MPAA

Memo to the New Head of the MPAA 01/06/2004 05:42 AM
Trading movies digitally still isn't easy, but Hollywood has a lot less time to act than it thinks. Here's some advice to help it avoid the fate of the music industry. By Wired magazine's Chris Anderson.

Stolen a film? MPAA wants to know

Stolen a film? MPAA wants to know 07/08/2004 05:33 PM
One in four online has illegally downloaded a feature film--and it's slicing into box-office and DVD sales, industry group says.

MPAA Gets New Top Paid Shill

MPAA Gets New Top Paid Shill 07/01/2004 03:41 PM
Well, it's not surprising (and it might barely be worth noting), but the MPAA has officially named Dan Glickman to replace Jack Valenti as their new top paid shill. Glickman, of course, says his number one goal is to "fight piracy," rather than, say, figuring out a way to embrace new technologies to help increase the movie industry's market. Not that something like that would ever happen. While the news reports note the fact that Glickman, the former USDA secretary, is a politician more than a Hollywood insider, that's not really that newsworthy. His job is to lobby, so of course they want a political insider. Besides, he isn't completely unknown in Hollywood. In the past he's lobbied for Disney and his son is a successful movie producer. Either way, it is, as everyone expected, more of the same.

RIAA and MPAA take lawsuits to Internet2

RIAA and MPAA take lawsuits to Internet2 04/13/2005 05:22 PM
Since their litigation strategy is by all accounts a resounding success, the content associations are now going after students on the new high-speed network.

MPAA seeks P2P Enforcer for antipiracy
ops

MPAA seeks P2P Enforcer for antipiracy
ops 01/29/2004 09:58 AM
Mid to senior level post

FCC Adopts MPAA broadcast flag

FCC Adopts MPAA broadcast flag 11/05/2003 10:56 AM
There goes the neighborhood I personally think that by forcing this the FCC will essentially eliminate the fair use standard,...

Why the MPAA anti piracy ads are bull...

Why the MPAA anti piracy ads are bull... 11/17/2003 07:44 PM
Do a quick search for Runaway Production on Google, the results come back with about 216,000 matches. A Partial list of movies filmed in Canada.

MPAA sues DVD chip manufacture

MPAA sues DVD chip manufacture 08/27/2004 01:44 PM

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Beware DVD chip makers! If you make chips that can circumvent copy protection, the Motion Picture Association of America will work their hardest to get your butt in a sling!…

Linux group rebuffs MPAA

Linux group rebuffs MPAA 09/20/2004 04:52 PM
Techzonez Sep 20 2004 8:43PM GMT

The MPAA speaks about Emanuel Goldstein.

The MPAA speaks about Emanuel Goldstein. 12/28/2003 06:33 AM
The MPAA speaks about Emanuel Goldstein. For a very long time, the MPAA has been suing the website and magazine 2600 for posting the DeCSS source code on its website. This is a FAQ from the MPAA's homepage. The incredible irony in seeing the words "Emanuel Goldstein" mentioned brings to mind (obviously to many of you) 1984.

New MPAA head is former Secty of
Agriculture

New MPAA head is former Secty of
Agriculture 07/05/2004 06:17 AM
Dan Glickman, the former US Secretary of Agriculture, has been named the new head of the MPAA, replacing Jack Valenti. Link (Thanks, Bill!)

DVD Piracy booming MPAA loosing the
battle

DVD Piracy booming MPAA loosing the
battle 12/10/2003 01:51 PM
Seems the MPAA's war on DVD Piracy is being lost. The MPAA is saying that they have found over 150,000...

SCO, MPAA, RIAA jointly sue entire world

SCO, MPAA, RIAA jointly sue entire world 12/06/2003 09:49 AM
Washington DC and Lindon Utah -- During a fictitious teleconference yesterday, three of America's most active intellectual property litigators announced that they have decided to pool their efforts and jointly file what they're calling "a reverse class action suit against every human being on the entire planet."

Intl MPAA/RIAA to ISPs: cut your own
throats

Intl MPAA/RIAA to ISPs: cut your own
throats 04/08/2005 05:28 AM
Cory Doctorow: The MPA and IFPI (international versions of the MPAA and RIAA, respectively), has produced a report describing the code of conduct they'd like ISPs to embrace -- basically, they want ISPs to act like AOL in the old days. Any ISP that adopts this code of conduct is cutting its own throat -- seriously, this thing is a frigging embarrassment, it really makes the IFPI/MPA people look like they live in Narnia. The MPA/IFPI people I've met on the road are generally lightweights, prone to telling easily countered lies, ignorant of the law, fumble-tongued and ham-fisted. This report tells me that my impression of them was dead on. Here are some callouts from CoCo:

* "remove references and links to sites or services that do not respect the copyrights of rights holders".'

* "require subscribers to consent in advance to the disclosure of their identity in response to a reasonable complaint of intellectual property infringement by an established right holder defence organisation or by right holder(s) whose intellectual property is being infringed"'

* terminate contracts of recidivist'

* implement instant messaging to communicate with infringers'

* implement filtering technologies to block sites that are 'substantially dedicated to illegal file sharing or download services.'

* voluntarily store data for copyright enforcement...

"To enforce terms of service that prohibit a subscriber from operating a server, or from consuming excessive amounts of bandwidth where such consumption is a good indicator of infringing activities."

Link (via Copyfight)

Briefly: MPAA picks new chief lobbyist

Briefly: MPAA picks new chief lobbyist 07/01/2004 01:46 PM
roundup Plus: Dell expands recycling grants...Viacom bids for SportsLine.com...Cisco to power Orange Wi-Fi upgrade...PalmOne spreads out Treo update.

Downloads rise as file traders seek new venues

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