Music industry guns for ISPs
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| The music industry is telling ISPs to shut down whoever it reckons
| is a pirate, without recourse to a court, or even evidence.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37055
Legal Affairs committee votes on criminalising downloading
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| Monday January 29 and Tuesday January 30, 2007, the European
| Parliament's Legal Affairs committee will discuss and vote on
| a proposal by Mr Manders, MEP, to criminalise downloading.
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http://www.ipred.org/download
This relates to discussions about DRM and the fact that the technology will
die without Linux ever having to adopt it. It's just about boosting profits
and taking away the freedoms that the Internet gives.
In related news today, political bloggers in America must soon have to
register or face jail. Kind of like in countries with totalitarian
regimes...
Related:
Sony 'deceived' on music
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| Sony has been convicted of misleading the French public and told
| to pay damages to a consumer watchdog for selling downloadable
| songs that only run on its own music players.
|
| France's Union Federale des Consommateurs (UFC) took Sony's
| French and British subsidiaries to court in February 2005 over
| the music download site Sony Connect. The lawsuit also targets
| Apple, maker of the popular iPod, whose case is expected to
| reach the courts later this year.
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http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21026144%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y7hk7w
Cost analysis of Vista DRM: Part II
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| Microsoft doesn't merely use DRM. To all intents and purposes it
| is DRM, better known as Digital Rights Management, Digital
| Restrictions Management or or just plain CRAP for Content
| Restriction, Annulment, and Protection, as ZDNet's David
| Berlind called it, eventually deferring to Richard Stallman's
| Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment. We call it, simply,
| CCG, short for Consumer Control Gear.
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http://p2pnet.net/story/10827
The Longest Suicide Note in History
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| On the same podcast Gutmann scotched suggestions Microsoft were held
| to ransom by Hollywood;
|
| [...]
|
| The genie's out of the bottle before the operating system has even
| been released! But that doesn't mean Vista users in particular - and
| the computer community at large - won't end up paying for Microsoft's
| DRM folly. At the risk of repeating myself repeating myself, yet
| another reason to move to Linux.
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http://blogs.pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/tux-love/2007/01/the_longest_suicide_note_in_hi.html
Peter Gutmann on Vista DRM
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| Leo: So the insane paranoia really comes from Hollywood, not from
| Microsoft.
|
| PETER: It's hard to tell what goes on inside Microsoft. But if you
| read the technical specs, I think any technical person that reads
| those specs would say this is never going to work, and half of the
| stuff is nuts. On the other hand, it could well be high-level managers
| inside Microsoft who don't understand the technology and who
| completely agree with Hollywood and who think we should do this
| even though other people have told me it's impossible, we're
| going to do it anyway.
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http://www.grc.com/sn/SN-074.htm
Apple faces suit over iPod-iTunes link
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| As if its options woes weren't trouble enough, Apple Computer Inc.
| said Friday it is facing several federal lawsuits, including one
| alleging the company created an illegal monopoly by tying iTunes
| music and video sales to its market-leading iPod portable players.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061230/ap_on_hi_te/apple_lawsuits
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