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New rules bring online piracy fight to U.S. campuses Thursday, July 1, 2010 @ 9:59PMStarting this month, colleges and universities that don't do enough to combat the illegal swapping of "Avatar" or Lady Gaga over their computer networks put themselves at risk of losing federal funding. A provision of the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 is making schools a reluctant ally in the entertainment industry's campaign to stamp out unauthorized distribution of copyrighted music ...
LimeWire sliced by RIAA, liable for massive infringement Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 3:40PMLimeWire has been tied up in court over copyright infringement claims for years, but LimeWire, CEO Mark Gorton, and the Lime Group are all feeling especially sour today—the recording industry has won a major victory in federal court. Judge Kimba Wood has just granted summary judgment against LimeWire, agreeing with the labels that the peer-to-peer company was liable for inducing copyright ...
Police tackle cyber crime Wednesday, May 12, 2010 @ 6:10AMIdentity thieves are getting more sophisticated and law enforcement agencies are stepping up efforts to battle cyber criminals who use the Internet to steal valuable personal information.
10 billionth iTunes song really makes you think Thursday, February 25, 2010 @ 3:34PMIt’s been less than a full decade since Apple opened the iTunes Music Store, and ever since it’s been one of the most argued over pieces of technology online. Some love it. Some hate it. Some find the 256kbps sample rate too dull. Other thought 48kpbs Napster downloads were fine. But the one thing that can’t be debated is how much iTunes has changed the world. read more
Exclusive: Guvera Raises $20M For Stealthy Brand-Supported Music And Video Service Monday, January 18, 2010 @ 10:45AMAustralia-based Guvera is slowly making its way onto the radar of digital music and technology blogs, and something tells me we'll hear a lot more about this private, registration-only music site over the next few of months. I heard the name being dropped a couple of times in 2009, but every time I visited the website I couldn't get past the registration stage and thus quickly forgot about it ...
Caught in the web of child porn Tuesday, January 12, 2010 @ 10:37PMBound for prison, a former San Antonio educator opens up about a dark, criminal passion. Dennis Jasso's speech to Be Broken Ministries
IT Resources for Students Sunday, December 13, 2009 @ 8:00AMThe C.R.I.B. (Computer Resource and Information Bureau) The C.R.I.B. is now located in the Cat's Den (formally Brown Cafeteria) and is open daily from 5:00pm - 10:00pm.
File-sharing: Handle Winny at your own risk Monday, October 26, 2009 @ 4:05PMMore than a decade since the heyday of Napster shareware, peer-to-peer file distribution remains a key tool for Internet users exchanging music and movie files online. The leading program in Japan is Winny, an application distributed free of charge since May 2002 by former University of Tokyo researcher Isamu Kaneko. While Napster creator Shawn Fanning was hit with a series of lawsuits and taken ...
iTunes owns 25% of music market: hype Wednesday, August 19, 2009 @ 6:29AMp2pnet news view Music:- Research company NPD is doing a wonderful PR job as an Apple hypnotist, claiming iTunes has 25% of the overall music market, physical and digital both, in the U.S. In 2005, NPD’s Russ Crupnick (right) said iTunes was on an equal footing with LimeWire. This was when LimeWire was one of the top [...]
More Upbeat About the Music Industry Friday, August 7, 2009 @ 10:20PMTo the Editor:.
Tenenbaum takes the stand: I used P2P and lied about it Thursday, July 30, 2009 @ 6:01PM“Joel Fights Back,” proclaims the website for Joel Tenenbaum, the Boston University grad student standing trial for copyright infringement this week in a federal courtroom. But today, when he took the stand at his closely watched copyright trial, he didn’t. Instead, over and over, Tenenbaum admitted under oath that he used KaZaA, LimeWire, and other peer-to-peer software to download and ...
Tenenbaum trial begins with "tortured" jury selection Monday, July 27, 2009 @ 9:31PMThe Joel Tenenbaum case opened today with a full, slogging day of jury selection, the defense reeling from Boston federal judge Nancy Gertner's last-minute decision to remove Tenenbaum's proposed fair use defense from the closely watched copyright case. Tenenbaum's hopes of letting the jury determine whether his acts of alleged infringement constituted fair use under the Copyright Act were ...
NPD ‘Apple 91%’ claim Thursday, July 23, 2009 @ 1:08PMp2pnet news view | Advertising:- “Move over Microsoft,” says beta news. “Apple can claim big, big market share numbers, too.” Sure. Apple can (and does) claim whatever it wants. But that doesn’t make it so. “According to NPD, in June, nine out of 10 dollars spent on computers costing $1,000 or more went to Apple,” says the [...]
Lime Wire Announces Partnership With CD Baby Wednesday, July 1, 2009 @ 4:23PMPartnership Pushes LimeWire Store Inventory to Over 3.5 Million Recordings
Warner Music’s Choruss, revisited Monday, May 18, 2009 @ 8:22AMp2pnet news view | P2P | Music:- Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony Music have been trying, and failing, to use their RIAA to sue people into becoming compliant corporate consumers, and until very recently, students were the primary Big 4 targets. Ask Brittany Kruger and Joel Tenenbaum. Like others in schools across America, they [...]
LittleShoot: ‘first true BitTorrent browser plugin’ Monday, April 27, 2009 @ 11:09AMp2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Whatever else you want to say about LimeWire which is, like the P2P community, under renewed attack by the entertainment cartels, ex-staffers continue to make significant contributions to the well-being of the Net. FrostWire, whose missions is to “Find talented unsigned and indie artists and labels who want to share [...]
Local Leads: Chocolate Profits and Stranded Without Work Thursday, April 23, 2009 @ 12:00PMNeed a quick look at D.C.-area news? Local Leads is your one-stop shop. Read it. Use it. Love it.
RIAA changes piracy tactics Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 3:50AMIf you're worried about getting slapped with a huge fine for downloading all your favorite songs off Limewire, you can now breathe a little easier.
7 Resources to Help You Prepare for Conficker's D-Day Saturday, March 28, 2009 @ 1:46PMConficker a.k.a. Downadup, is causing global concern as we move closer to D-Day; April 1st, when the latest version of the worm, Conficker.C is due to be activated . While some news outlets are causing panic with their fear mongering , others are downplaying the upcoming event, and the net effect of course is FUD . But according to security experts , the bottom line is if you're not infected ...
white papers Wednesday, February 25, 2009 @ 5:36PMDual Sony rumors hit the web today. Neither seems likely when examined alone, but combined, could they be indicating a new trend at Sony?
RIAA cracks down on copyright infringement at OU Thursday, February 5, 2009 @ 6:45AMWhile illegally downloading copyrighted material is free, it doesn’t come cheap to those who are caught. Complaints made to OU about illegally downloaded content rose 540 percent in 2008, and 13 members of the OU community who downloaded illegally on OU’s network are in the settlement process with the Recording Industry Association of America.
RIAA stops suing individuals: Are we home free? Monday, December 22, 2008 @ 1:32AMThe Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has set aside its gavel and will stop prosecuting individuals for pirating digital music files, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Does this mean you should hop on Limewire and fill an iPod with illegal tunes? Not quite.
MediaDefender — online porn merchant Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 8:42AMp2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Online scalp-hunter Media Sentry, used by Vivendi Universal, EMI, Warner Music and Sony BMG’s RIAA as its principal ‘investigator’ in the Big 4’s anti-P2P sue ‘em all campaign, was getting all the flak until last week, following revelations from leader in Australia, p2pnet highlighted BayTSP. Now it’s the turn of [...]