Ireland’s largest ISP, Eircom, will reportedly start blocking its customers from accessing file-sharing sites, solely at the behest of the music industry. According to the Sunday Business Post, the Irish equivalent of the RIAA, the Irish Recorded Music Industry, has been threatening the country’s ISPs with legal action if they don’t do the same. And [...]
Tom Yager at Infoworld has an excellent read on how easy–and likely–it will be to lock down content post-digital TV switch. Plus, a good refresher on just how convoluted and downright bad the HDCP over HDMI is for consumers. In essence, his column winds up as a call to arms to the electronics and software [...]
From the New York Times’s Nicholas Kristof today:
“Painfully slowly, the United Nations and its member states seem to be recognizing the fact that systematic mass rape is at least as much an international outrage as, say, pirated DVDs.”
Makes me wonder not only about their priorities, but maybe mine a bit, as well.
I’ve been at this all backwards. See, first I read this story, which seemed to suggest that Canada was working on an agreement that would turn its border cops into copyright cops, lead to searching of iPods and computers for infringing material like ripped CDs and DVDs, and force their ISPs to turn over information [...]
Over the past weekend, the online video network Revision3 fell victim to a distributed denial of service attack that took down their entire site and even crippled their internal email servers. And upon investigating the source of the attack, they discovered it had originated from MediaDefender, an antipiracy “defense” firm (owned by digital media entertainment [...]
YouTube is taking a bold approach in its defense against Viacom’s massive copyright infringement lawsuit. In a nutshell, YouTube’s official reply to Viacom’s $1 billion complaint (submitted Friday) is that if Viacom wins, the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions will be invalidated, and that “threatens the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information, news, [...]
Oh, no, the worst has occurred! A woman created knitting patterns based on the monsters in Doctor Who, and other people knitting up those monsters and posting them on eBay. And it’s simply got to stop! Well, something’s got to stop, anyway. Let’s dig in, shall we?
The BBC has threatened legal action against a 26-year-old [...]
TiVoStephen posted this comment here on the blog in response to the last update about the lockdown of the HBO John Adams miniseries, and I wanted to draw it to your attention (and thanks so much, Stephen, for responding here!):
“I’m Stephen Mack, Director of Operations at TiVo. It has recently come to our attention that [...]
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