Music piracy - archive for February 2005
Music piracy ('muziekpiraterij' in dutch) is a very complex phenomenon to comprehend. These pages wishes to address all of you who are interested in music piracy in a broad sense. You'll find articles related to music and video piracy (with special attention to articles from Belgium and the Netherlands).
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Muziekindustrie pleit voor duurdere downloads
Diverse platenmaatschappijen vinden dat de markt voor legale downloads voldoende rijp is om een hogere prijs per download te kunnen vragen. De belangrijkste online muziekwinkel, de iTunes Music Store, heeft onlangs het 250 miljoenste liedje verkocht. Ondanks deze indrukwekkende getallen maken legale online muziekverkopen net twee procent van alle omzet in de muziekindustrie uit. (...) Topman Steve Jobs van Apple zou volgens de FT "geïrriteerd" hebben gereageerd op het voorstel van de platenlabels. Het legale alternatief is in veel landen nog slechts kort voorhanden. In Nederland werd de iTunes muziekwinkel pas eind oktober 2004 geopend. Een prijsverhoging zou meer mensen (terug) richting illegale aanschaf drijven, is de vrees.
Date: 2005, February 28 | Source (NL): Zdnet
Music download prices rising?
Just as legal music downloading is taking off in earnest, the major record labels are in talks to raise the price they charge online retailers for song downloads, a newspaper reported Monday. The Financial Times, quoting unnamed music executives, said wholesale music prices, thought to be around 65 cents a song, were originally set artificially low in a bid to stimulate demand. The executives noted the success of Apple's hugely popular iPod digital music players, the report said.
Date: 2005, February 28 | Source (EN): Cnn
Smashing piracy takes public events and support
Tens of thousands of pirated books, DVDs, CDs, and computer discs were smashed to pieces publicly Saturday in Beijing, marking the beginning of a series of activities aimed at strengthening copyright protection.
Date: 2005, February 28 | Source (EN): China Daily
MP3 fans tune in to podcasting
Performance artist Dawn Miceli, 28, and her Web designer husband, Drew Domkus, 33, often plop down in their Wayne, Wis., living room to record 30 minutes of funny, inane and often racy husband-and-wife yakking -- a show about nothing. (...) It's a podcast -- the most popular on the Net according to fans. Think of podcasts as audio blogs you can listen to on an Apple iPod or other portable digital music player. A growing number of podcasters are recording programs with free software and Web services and uploading them to the Internet, where MP3 player fans download them and listen whenever they like.
Date: 2005, February 28 | Source (EN): Shreveport Times
P2P provider pushes advertising model
Online digital entertainment distributor Altnet has confirmed plans to share revenue generated by advertising on popular peer-to-peer applications with independent music labels. The independent label customers include V2, Artemis, Epitaph/Anti, Side One Dummy and Palm, Simmons/Latham, and Koch Media. Under the business model, the independent labels will share the revenue generated from advertising that appears in the user interface of popular P2P applications.
Date: 2005, February 28 | Source (EN): Zdnet
China stars rally against piracy
Chinese celebrities have staged a concert urging their fans not to buy pirated music or movies, part of a campaign to crack down on rampant intellectual property theft on everything from clothes to software. The concert in Beijing followed the public destruction of confiscated books, music, DVDs and computer disks, the official Xinhua news agency said, but concert goers were unrepentant about buying pirate goods.
Date: 2005, February 27 | Source (EN): Reuters
Media 'pirates' remain elusive as ever
"DVD, VCD, Ma'am, Sir." So goes the whispered calls of ambulant vendors in Quiapo, on the sidewalks of Ayala Avenue in Makati, on side streets near the port of Manila, and even in the provinces, lugging bags of their prized wares: pirated media. (...) While efforts to curb piracy have intensified over the past few years, with government working double time to conduct raids in areas tagged as piracy havens and with the private sector doing their fair share of monitoring activities to combat piracy, media "pirates' abound.' Proof of this is that the Philippines remains in the United States' Special 301 Priority Watch List of intellectual property rights (IPR) violators.
Date: 2005, February 27 | Source (EN): Philippine Daily Inquirer
Muziekmagazines vechten tegen crisis en internet
Muziektijdschriften kosten geld, terwijl je op het internet gratis cd-besprekingen en interviews kan lezen. Voor de meeste jongeren is de keuze snel gemaakt. De markt van muziektijdschriften ligt op apegapen. In Engeland verdwijnt de ene titel na de andere, het Nederlandse ,,Oor'' moest noodgedwongen van koers veranderen en ook de weinige Vlaamse tijdschriften hebben het water aan de lippen staan. ,,We kunnen niet anders dan gevestigde waarden op de cover zetten. Want alleen de oudere muziekliefhebbers geven nog geld uit aan een tijdschrift'', zegt Alan Jones, de hoofdredacteur van het Britse ,,Uncut''.
Date: 2005, February 25 | Source (NL): De Standaard
Europe probes 'rip off' Apple iTunes pricing
The European Commission (EC) has confirmed it is looking into allegations that Apple's iTunes Music Store discriminates against UK consumers by charging them more to download the same song than it charges other European music buyers. Some British iTunes users have slammed the differential pricing as yet another example of "rip-off Britain".
Date: 2005, February 25 | Source (EN): The Register
Fight Piracy, Broadcasters Told
Culture and Press Minister Alexander Sokolov signed an agreement with three leading royalty-collecting organizations on Tuesday in a bid to extend the country's fight against rampant piracy to music broadcasters. (...) Under the agreement, the Russian Authors' Society, the Russian Phonographic Association and the Russian Society for Performers' Rights will team up with government officials and copyright holders to fill legislative loopholes that hinder Russian composers and musicians from receiving remuneration for performances of their work.
Date: 2005, February 25 | Source (EN): St Petersburg Times
RIAA combats music piracy
The music industry makes approximately $40 billion annually, 90 percent of which is controlled by the RIAA. Though the music industry has managed to become one of the top industries in the world, it has been struggling to keep all of the money coming in and going to those who deserve it. With the introduction of greater technology and high-speed cable Internet, people were able to develop ways to share copyrighted music with people all over the country, even the world.
Date: 2005, February 24 | Source (EN): East Carolinian
GSM herkent liedjes
Voortaan kan de mobiele beller via zijn telefoon de titel opvragen van het liedje waar hij op dat moment naar luistert. Ook de naam van de artiest en van het album waarop het nummer staat, krijgt de gsm-gebruiker via sms op zijn scherm. Golden Bytes Music, een dochteronderneming van het mobiele-berichtenbedrijf Golden Bytes Belgium in Brussel, is de leverancier van het concept MusicDNA. De technologie werd ontwikkeld door het Nederlandse bedrijf Philips Research en het Amerikaanse Gracenote. Eind 2004 kwam de dienst in Nederland op de markt. Daar heeft Skyradio het product al onder zijn naam gelanceerd. Ook in België wil Golden Bytes via partners werken.
Date: 2005, February 24 | Source (NL): De Standaard
Anti-piracy concert in Beijing
A large concert in the name of 'anti-piracy' will be staged at the Capital Gymnasium in Beijing this Saturday night. Top Chinese mainland female singer Na Ying and Han Hong will lead more than one hundred singers from the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan to perform at the concert. It aims to raise people's consciousness of piracy in the music recording industry with the support of the State Copyright Bureau.
Date: 2005, February 23 | Source (EN): Xinhua
Major anti-piracy raids in Mexico: one million discs seized and 25 arrested
Mexico has seen one of its biggest crackdowns against music piracy, with a series of raids resulting in the seizure of approximately one million pirate music discs and the arrest of 25 individuals. Authorities from the Attorney General's Office and its specialised Intellectual Property unit from Mexico City, assisted by 200 local police officers, executed 108 search warrants on the San Juan de Dios Market in Guadalajara, Mexico on February 15. The raids are the latest in a concerted industry effort to reduce the endemic piracy problem in Mexico under a new IFPI-sponsored project called 'Mexico Plus'. Launched in August 2004, it is a year-long project aimed at intensifying anti-piracy, business promotion and lobbying actions in one location.
Date: 2005, February 23 | Source (EN): IFPI
Courts question anti-piracy rule
The courts said the FCC should not decide how devices work The US broadcast regulator has been told by appeal judges it has "crossed the line" with an anti-piracy tag which stops programmes being copied.
Date: 2005, February 23 | Source (EN): Bbc
Music industry sues two in area
In their continuing campaign against music piracy, several record companies allege two more Ozarks residents illegally downloaded and distributed songs. Judy Cameron and Patsy Doyle were sued for copyright infringement in separate lawsuits filed in Springfield's federal court. Two other local women have settled similar cases. The Springfield-area women were among more than 700 individuals sued this year and about 8,500 alleged illegal file-sharers taken to court since September 2003, said Jonathan Lamy, Recording Industry Association of America spokesman.
Date: 2005, February 22 | Source (EN): Springfield News-leader
Russian police probe cheap downloads site
Authorities in Moscow are investigating a Russian website offering cheap music downloads. Allofmp3.com is accused by a music industry group of offering music for sale without authorisation from rights holders in Russia and internationally. (...) Igor Pozhitkov, Regional Director, IFPI Moscow said: "We have consistently said that Allofmp3.com is not licensed to distribute our members' repertoire in Russia or anywhere else. We are pleased that the police are bringing this important case to the attention of the prosecutor.
Date: 2005, February 22 | Source (EN): The Register
Piracy and payment
Q&A Music Industry Piracy Investigations (MIPI) head Michael Speck -- the controversial champion of the music industry's efforts in Australia to curb unauthorised obtaining and sharing of music -- is set to vacate his position for a quieter life. He leaves with public awareness of the illicit nature of music piracy at new highs -- but not without disquiet over the music industry's hardline legal pursuit of the parties allegedly involved. Here he shares with ZDNet Australia his views about life bringing pirates to account.
Date: 2005, February 21 | Source (EN): Zdnet
Namaker wordt veroordeeld tot het vergoeden van de benadeelde rechthebbenden.
In april 2000 heeft de gerechtelijke politie van Luik in een privé woning 1179 illegale CD's in beslag genomen: playstation videospelletjes, CD programma's voor PC, CD spelletjes voor PC, audio en video CD's. Deze dragers werden als master gebruikt voor een drie jaar durende handel in illegale kopie. (...) Het hof van beroep van Luik heeft de verkoper begin 2005 veroordeeld tot het betalen van meer dan € 200.000 schadevergoeding aan SABAM en IFPI.
Date: 2005, February 21 | Source (NL): IFPI Belgium
Fake CDs make fools of stores
TWELVE music stores across the country have been put on notice, with investigators ordering the retailers to stop selling counterfeit CDs. The CDs, including albums by top-selling artists Delta Goodrem and U2, are part of a multi-million dollar counterfeiting scam. The cleverly disguised fake CDs are being sold in Sydney stores for as little as $10.
Date: 2005, February 21 | Source (EN): The Daily Telegraph
EarthStation 5 – The Beginning, The Middle, The End...
Date: 2005, February 20 | Source (EN): Slyck News
Gizmos under threat of extinction
The entertainment industry is concerned about technology that facilitates piracy Endangered animals lists are familiar to those who care about nature, but now technology has its own list of gadget "species" under threat of extinction. High on the endangered list is the file-sharing network, Morpheus, which is about to fight for survival in court.
Date: 2005, February 18 | Source (EN): Bbc
The copyright 'copyfight' is on
Amidst all the "will they?, won't they?" excitement over whether European patent law should be updated, and whether the version currently on offer will allow US-style software patents, it would be easy to forget that another, bigger, battle continues around the world. It is the "copyfight" - the continuing dispute over what sort of legal protection creative people or the companies that employ them should have over the ways in which their works are used.
Date: 2005, February 18 | Source (EN): Bbc
P2P Pressure
Later this year, the Supreme Court will decide MGM v. Grokster, a lawsuit brought by motion-picture and record producers against Grokster and StreamCast peer-to-peer, or P2P, file-sharing networks. P2P technology allows users to easily share copyrighted movies and songs for free with little risk of being caught. While the case is predominantly about copyright law, we believe that it is critically important for another reason -- fighting the battle against child pornography. At stake is the ability of law enforcement to identify and prosecute child pornographers who use P2P networks to traffic illegal images that victimize children.
Date: 2005, February 18 | Source (EN): National Review
Italian DJ Fined 1.4 Mln Euros for Music Piracy
An Italian DJ has been fined a record 1.4 million euros ($1.8 million) for using thousands of pirate music files in a nightclub near Rome, police said on Wednesday. (...) The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) said the fine was the biggest ever slapped on an individual for unlawful music copying and the use of copyrighted music in the MP3 format.
Date: 2005, February 17 | Source (EN): Reuters
iMesh almost ready to become paid file-swap network
For more than six months, Israel's iMesh has been the strangest of beasts in the file-swapping world: a fully functioning peer-to-peer network operating with the blessing, albeit temporary, of the recording industry. That status is coming slowly to an end. The company is working to build a record-label-approved peer-to-peer service, using song-filtering company Audible Magic's technology to help turn unauthorized music trades into revenue for record labels.
Date: 2005, February 17 | Source (EN): Zdnet
DJ in Italy hit with biggest MP3 piracy fine in Europe
The operation, targeting radio stations and clubs around the region, was led by the Fiscal Police. In addition to the mp3s and music video clips found, a large quantity of audiovisual material and software were also seized.
Date: 2005, February 17 | Source (EN): IFPI
Students: A File Shared is Many Dollars Spared
It was just a matter of time before Pace got itself involved in another disappointing battle. For once, blame cannot be issued to the administration. The RIAA's crackdown on illegal downloads is directed at students. It's pretty hard to deny the reality that we like our music like we like our weekend minutes: free.
Date: 2005, February 16 | Source (EN): Pace Press
Napster hack leads to free downloads
It's like the old Napster all over again: all the music you want for free, as long as you're willing to get a little geeky. Blogs were buzzing Tuesday about the resurgence of an old technique for recording music on a computer, reapplied to Napster's all-you-can-eat subscription music plan. Using software freely available from America Online's Winamp division, it's possible to turn Napster's copy-protected downloads into unprotected files that can be burned by the hundreds or even thousands freely to CDs.
Date: 2005, February 15 | Source (EN): Cnet
11 Percent of US Owns an iPod or MP3 Player, Study Finds
Eleven percent of Americans over 18 own an Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) iPod or similar MP3 player and almost one in five of those under the age of 30 own a digital music device, new research has found. The study, carried out by the Washington-based nonprofit Pew Internet & American Life Project, showed 22 million adults in the U.S. own a MP3 player. While younger people had a better chance of owning an iPod or MP3 device, the number dropped to one in seven in the 30-to-39 and 40-to-48 age groups.
Date: 2005, February 15 | Source (EN): Ecommerce Times
INTENT MediaWorks Releases First P2P Software to Prevent Illegal File Trading
INTENT MediaWorks (INTENT) (...) announced today that it has released the first peer-to-peer (P2P) software that blocks and filters unauthorized, copy-written works and sexually explicit material from being traded over P2P networks. The software, called iPeer, is a P2P file trading software application that operates on the public P2P Networks such as gnutella and is able to allow only legally authorized content to be traded between P2P users.
Date: 2005, February 15 | Source (EN): Business Wire
2005 Grammy Awards Achieve Lowest Ratings Since 1995
Although this year's Grammy awards featured Usher, U2, James Brown and J.Lo, viewership was far less than spectacular. (...) Perhaps the public is tired of hearing all of the file-sharing nonsense put forth by the RIAA and MPAA. Perhaps we've just given up on the whole "organized media presentation" thing.
Date: 2005, February 15 | Source (EN): Internet Dj
Students download music legally
The proliferation of portable music players like the iPod has played a significant role in the rising popularity of music that can be downloaded legally. The number of songs downloaded from legal Web sites grew tenfold between 2003 and 2004, encompassing 200 million tracks from 230 online stores, according to the Associated Press. Yet, the average Stanford student still relies on other methods, such as illegal downloading or CD purchasing.
Date: 2005, February 15 | Source (EN): Stanford Daily
Apple, Sony sued over DRM in France
Apple Computer and Sony are to appear in court over claims that their respective music download sites have been deceitful and have forced consumers to buy products because they are tied together. French consumer association Union Federale des Consommateurs-Que Choisir has launched legal action over the two companies' proprietary music formats, claiming that the respective digital rights management used by both Sony and Apple, which prevent songs bought from their online music shops from being played on other manufacturers' media players, is limiting consumers' choice.
Date: 2005, February 14 | Source (EN): Cnet
Edonkey-sites dicht onder druk van Brein
Veertien sites die links aanboden naar bestanden op de netwerken van Edonkey en Fasttrack, zijn daar onder druk van de Stichting Brein mee opgehouden. Volgens Brein zijn er nu nog twee portals met Edonkey-links actief in Nederland. "Daar zullen we waarschijnlijk juridische stappen tegen ondernemen", zegt Bas Vissers van de Stichting Brein. De namen van de betreffende sites wil Vissers niet noemen. "We gaan die sites niet adverteren."
Date: 2005, February 14 | Source (NL): Webwereld
Looking to Block P2P Traffic?
P2P networking takes up a considerable amount of bandwidth. Whether you are a network administrator for a college LAN (Local Area Network) or an ISP, some estimates place P2P consumption (especially BitTorrent) at 60%. However, figuring out the most practical solution for various administrators varies. Should you outright ban P2P traffic? Incorporate bandwidth throttles? NetEqualizer lets you choose from these options and much more.
Date: 2005, February 14 | Source (EN): Slyck News
[VIDEO] Internet pirating of Oscar-nominated films is worse, despite campaign
One year after the Motion Picture Association of America began its highly publicized campaign against pre-Oscar piracy, the problem is even worse. There are significantly more Academy Award screeners - copies of films - available on the Internet for downloading than there were last year, according to Web sites that track online piracy, including all five films nominated for best picture.
Date: 2005, February 13 | Source (EN): Baltimore Sun
LokiTorrent-gebruikers riskeren rechtszaak
Een Amerikaanse rechtbank in Dallas heeft de controversiële Bittorrent-site LokiTorrent.com het zwijgen opgelegd. Bovendien krijgen advocaten van de filmstudio's toegang tot de serverlogs, waardoor in een klap tienduizenden bezoekers een rechtszaak boven het hoofd hangt.
Date: 2005, February 11 | Source (NL): Zdnet
Movie blackout for P2P networks?
Researchers at Royal Philips Electronics are developing new "fingerprinting" technology that could automatically identify and block transmission of digital-video files, potentially handing movie studios a new weapon in its war on peer-to-peer networks. The technique would be similar to technology already being used to track and prevent copying of music files on some university networks. Philips' audio fingerprinting technology is central to Napster founder Shawn Fanning's new company Snocap, which aims to turn file-swapping networks into digital-song stores.
Date: 2005, February 10 | Source (EN): Cnet
Napster To Go campaign will challenge Apple iTunes' lead
Napster has revealed that it's planning an aggressive marketing campaign again Apple's iPod as part of its plans for a full launch of the Napster To Go portable subscription service later this quarter. The service, which soft-launched in the US in November, is likely to roll out in the UK in March. It's one of the first services enabled by Microsoft's Janus technology, which for the first time allows music files bought via subscription services to be transferred from a PC to a portable device.
Date: 2005, February 10 | Source (EN): Forbes
Stichting Brein stuurt 300.000 waarschuwingen
De Stichting Brein heeft in een half jaar tijd, vanaf augustus 2004, maar liefst 300.000 waarschuwingen verstuurd naar mensen die via uitwisseldiensten illegaal muziek verspreiden. Brein wilde met de e-mails mensen er vooral van bewust maken dat ze illegaal bezig zijn.
Date: 2005, February 10 | Source (NL): Zdnet
RIAA And Others Ask WTO To Crack Down On Chinese Piracy
The Recording Industry Association Of America (RIAA) is leading the fight to further crack down on pirated intellectual property coming out of China. A report has been submitted by the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), which includes copyright groups such as the RIAA, outlining the damage that has been done to American industries by the Chinese government's lack of compliance with anti-piracy laws.
Date: 2005, February 10 | Source (EN): Fmqb
Brein waarschuwt voor de laatste keer
Brein scherpt de waarschuwingen voor p2p-gebruikers aan. De auteursrechtenorganisatie wil 'binnenkort' schadevergoedingen eisen.
Date: 2005, February 09 | Source (NL): Webwereld
The US Copyright Office's Rob Kasunic on Internet Law
Date: 2005, February 08 | Source (EN): Technology News
EMI profit warning hits sour note with markets
Shares in EMI, the world's third-largest music company, had their steepest decline in more than three years after album delays and lower-than-expected sales forced it to cut its earnings forecast. (...) Record companies may be succeeding in limiting illegal music sharing. Anti-piracy campaigns shut 60,900 illegal download sites last year, the IFPI said.
Date: 2005, February 08 | Source (EN): New Zealand Herald
Why Wilco Is the Future of Music
On February 13, thousands of musicians from around the world will gather in Los Angeles at the Grammy Awards to celebrate music circa 2005. But the celebration won't hide the war that's going on. Record labels are threatened by technologies that give fans access to music in ways no one ever planned. They plead with Congress for more laws to control the fans. Activist organizations such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Public Knowledge (on whose boards this columnist sits) are fighting back. They (we) demand an end to the war, and the attack on innovation that it represents.
Date: 2005, February 08 | Source (EN): Wired
A wave of panic among surfers
"Since hearing about their threat, I no longer download six to seven albums every night. I am also doing wholesale burning of files that are on my computer and then deleting them from the hard disk," he says. Nonetheless, he is aware that he is also uploading to the Internet, for the benefit of other surfers, between 100 to 200 files per day.(...)"
Date: 2005, February 08 | Source (EN): Haaretz - Isreal News
File Sharers Can No Longer Hide
Uploaders to eDonkey.com, Bit Torrent and other file-sharing networks beware: The commercial equivalent to Big Brother is watching you. BayTSP, a leading provider of online intellectual property monitoring and compliance systems, last month began offering a service aimed at software, movie and music pirates. FirstSource is an automated system that identifies the first users to upload copyright- or trademark-protected content to major peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
Date: 2005, February 05 | Source (EN): Technology News
First French P2P 'pirate' fined €10,200
A French teacher was yesterday fined €10,200 ($13,300) in France's first major illegal file-sharing prosecution. Alain Oddoz, 28, was arrested on 18 August 2004 following an investigation into music-sharing information site France Barter by French law enforcement agencies. The teacher, one of 302 regular users of the site, was accused of sharing 30GB of music files, Le Monde reports.
Date: 2005, February 03 | Source (EN): The Register
Peter R. de Vries en big bestrijden piraterij
"Een nieuwe vorm van criminaliteit neemt hand over hand toe." Aan het woord is Peter R. de Vries. Dit keer niet in zijn vertrouwde rol als misdaadverslaggever, maar als boegbeeld van een campagne tegen het kopiëren van games en andere software. De NVPI, de brancheorganisatie van de entertainmentindustrie, gaf donderdagochtend de aftrap voor de campagne B.I.G. (Ban Illegale Games en Software). Doel is om de 'acceptatie van games- en softwarepiraterij duurzaam te verlagen'.
Date: 2005, February 03 | Source (NL): Webwereld
MP3.com founder announces Internet music encore
Online music maverick Michael Robertson, the MP3.com founder who once copied 45,000 CDs from big-name artists without authorization from the record labels, said yesterday he's returning to the Internet music business. Robertson said consumers are tired of having to buy their downloadable songs in proprietary file formats that limit where the tunes can be played and how many times they can be copied. So, he said he's putting up some of the money he made from MP3.com to launch a startup, MP3tunes, next week in San Diego.
Date: 2005, February 03 | Source (EN): San Diego Union Tribune
Team Sharman tries to gag the media as confidentiality is waived on critical evidence.
"We need to be careful with user resources. Most obvious is in the adware we add to their machine upon installation. This software slows down users' machines and can affect other activity such as browsing the Internet (as we have seen with PerfectNav). It is reasonable that we show ads in order to create our free software, but I do not believe it is reasonable to place a user in a position where this free software will also make their machine sluggish. Consider how many people that work for Sharman Networks and its partners that hate installing Kazaa on their machines."
Date: 2005, February 02 | Source (EN): Apc
Music Industry Sues 83-Year-Old Dead Woman
The dead woman's daughter faxed a copy of her mother's death certificate to record company officials. "I believe that if music companies are going to set examples they need to do it to appropriate people and not dead people," she said. Gertrude Walton was recently targeted by the recording industry in a lawsuit that accused her of illegally trading music over the Internet. But Walton died in December after a long illness, and according to her daughter, the 83-year-old hated computers.
Date: 2005, February 02 | Source (EN): Technology News
Anti-Piracy Software from MPAA Draws Mixed Reviews
"In making enemies with every P2P service out there, the only method of piracy prevention that remains is parents," said Edward Webber, operator of Loki Torrent. "There are many [ways] peer-to-peer technology could be adapted to aid in the sale of MPAA title works; all they have to do is stop making new enemies long enough to listen to their rapidly shrinking consumer base." A free software program to help parents police illegal movie and music files on their household computers is garnering mixed reviews.
Date: 2005, February 02 | Source (EN): Technology News
Avast, Ye Media Pirate!
Music piracy is no longer the only threat facing the entertainment industry these days. Video piracy (in particularly full-length movies and TV shows) has risen in the last year as well. Instead of innocent TiVo, consumers are increasingly taking the law into their own hands and making their own cable boxes, ripping programs and person-to-person file-sharing services -- all illegal.
Date: 2005, February 01 | Source (EN): Stanford Daily