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Copy Protection is the Enemy of Content Distribution

May 24, 2007

The MPAA has, believe it or not, heard you. You want to copy the material you buy, for use in other devices, etc. You want to, as someone once said, be able to “Rip. Remix. Burn.” your media. And why not? You paid for it. MPAA Boss Dan [...]

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Fans Sue RIAA

September 12, 2003

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/2003/09/12/riaa/ index.php?redirect63353388000
Consumers strike back, sue RIAA By Liane Cassavoy, PC World.com September 12, 2003 9:35 am ET
After taking its antipiracy campaign to court, the music industry is finding itself on the receiving end of a lawsuit that challenges its purported amnesty program as a fraudulent business practice.
The Recording Industry Association of [...]

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RIAA Fans Flames Against P2P

September 11, 2003

The RIAA, not content to sue 12-year-old girls and strike fear into the hearts of audiophiles worldwide, is now attempting to scare the bejeezus out of Senators. And nothing scares Senators (especially Republicans) like the spectre of… you guessed it, folks… KIDDIE PORN!!
The RIAA attacked the Peer-To-Peer networks as supposed havens for Kiddie [...]

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The Gloves Are Off…

June 26, 2003

When the going gets tough, the tough get lawyers.
-Ian.
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Music Industry Ad Snipes at Downloaders 24 minutes ago Add Technology – Reuters Internet Report to My Yahoo!
By Michele Gershberg
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Music industry groups turned up the volume in their fight against song-swapping over the Internet on Thursday, warning Americans [...]

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AOL Slaps Nullsoft AGAIN!

May 31, 2003

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Gregory Alan Bolcer
> Date: Sat May 31, 2003 3:57:02 PM US/Pacific
> To: FoRK
> Subject: Re: waste testbed
> Reply-To: gbolcer [at] endeavors [dot] com
>
> Wow. Deja Vu all over again. Those dang
> Nullsofter’s causing the exact same problems they
> did 3 years ago.
>
> Greg
>
> Elias Sinderson wrote:
>>
>> [...]

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FBI Seeks IP Telephony Surveillance…

March 27, 2003

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3466
FBI seeks Internet telephony surveillance
The Justice Department and the FBI ask regulators for expanded technical capabilities to intercept Voice Over IP communications… and anything else that uses broadband. By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Mar 27 2003 1:11AM
The FBI and Justice Department are worried that Voice Over IP (VoIP) applications may become safe havens [...]

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Set the Softswitch Free

March 17, 2003

I have read with interest and disappointment the FBI/DoJ’s objections to keeping IP Telephony (in the form of Jeff Pulver’s Free World Dialup service) as an unregulated service. Of course, they invoked the usual Post-9/11 fear factor associated with potential criminal and/or terrorist use of the network and the difficulty in applying CALEA wiretapping [...]

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Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

September 6, 2002

Morpheus got slammed because it installed “GATOR”. Gator is evil. It tracks your web surfing, “sells” unused cycles on your computer, and targets banner advertising. As an added bonus, it’s buggy, is a memory pig, and the company is run by a bunch of crooks.
I use LimeWire.
For the uninitiated, all [...]

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Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave

September 5, 2002

The death of Napster is not so much a signifier of the victory of the RIAA over the infidels as it is of the defeat of companies which had no identifiable business plan..
-Ian.
———– http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020904/wr_nm/ media_napster_reaction_dc
Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave Wed Sep 4, 1:38 PM ET
By Bernhard Warner, European Internet Correspondent
[...]

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