-from BusinessWeek
So by now you’ve all heard about the “all you can eat” music plan. While it sounds like a subscription service Job’s argues that it’s not. For those who have not heard what this plan covers, it basically allows Apple to raise the prices of the Ipods so you can have a lifetime of [...]
-from Zero Paid
TorrentSpy decides to not block US visitors and chooses to filter pirated content from its search results instead, something which ISOHunt plans to do as well.
It’s a sad day for those in the US who use TorrentSpy or ISOHunt, two of the world’s largest public trackers sites, to find movies, music, and more [...]
from Downloadsquad
Posted Jun 15th 2007 4:07PM by Grant Robertson
Recently, when a counterclaim was filed by Ms. Del Cid against the RIAA containing allegations of Trespass, Computer Fraud and Abuse, Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices, Civil Extortion, and Civil conspiracy, we published a short editorial on our perception of the unfolding events. Del Cid’s allegations are [...]
So AT&T wants to began to scan every file that people send over their network, I think that this is a balant violation of peoples privacy, but since AT&T already gave your phone records to the4 government I guess they could care less. This was brought on because of a deal that they have with [...]
Aren’t these the people that said that tapes would kill them? Apparently RIAA is going to court for extortion, conspiracy, computer fraud, trespass, and kicking babies (I think don’t quote me) All in all I think that this is rather funny, because all I can say is it’s about time. I’m pretty sure what [...]
So Itunes has apparently started to release songs free of DRM protection rights. A big win for Pirates and normal people who use Itunes and don’t have ipods, right? Turns out that the first parts of the almost epic win is wrong. These songs that have no DRM are embedded with your user information. So [...]
-from Gizomodo
Electronista is reporting that “according to French sources familiar with negotiations for multiple online music stores,” Apple is set to drop EMI’s DRM-free catalog onto iTunes this week. Techs are entering the last stages of encoding and prepping the files to go live.
While previous statements seemed to indicate a gradual release starting this month, [...]
-from ARS techncia
By Nate Anderson | Published: April 02, 2007 - 07:15AM CT
Representative Ric Keller (R-FL) feels that colleges in America are teaching students more than literature, history, and computer science. They are also dens of thievery, places where students learn to steal “billions of dollars in intellectual property from hardworking people whose jobs [...]
-From ARS Technica
By Ken Fisher | Published: March 26, 2007 - 12:13PM CT
While the RIAA is touting a settlement percentage north of 25 percent with its recent campaign against file sharing at US colleges and universities, the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of students are shunning the insta-settlement approach. According to the RIAA, some [...]
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