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Star Wars-piraten voor de rechter

Acht Amerikanen uit Californië zijn gisteren door de rechter aangeklaagd wegens het illegaal verspreiden van de recentste Star Wars-film ,,Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith''. Een van de acht beklaagden, een medewerker van een post-productiebedrijf, bemachtigde een kopie van de film. Een dag voor de wereldwijde release van Star Wars - op 18 mei - dook de illegale kopie op op het internet.

De Standaard, 2005, September 28th | Language: NL | 124 words

Congress to legislate file swapping?

A California senator has suggested that because file-sharing networks continue to house illegal files, they should be shut down. Intellectual property protection "can't function in a country where the high-tech services become such that you can't protect copyright," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat, said Wednesday at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Cnet, 2005, September 28th | Language: EN | 437 words

Apple admits to iPod Nano faults

Electronics firm Apple has admitted there have been problems with its new iPod Nano music player, after a string of complaints about damaged screens. (...) It says the problem affects fewer than a tenth of 1% of all Nanos shipped.

Bbc, 2005, September 28th | Language: EN | 610 words

Warner, MTV to clip videos for phones

Warner Music Group and MTV Networks will work together to create short music videos from Warner's existing collection and distribute them on cell phones and other mobile devices.

Cnet, 2005, September 26th | Language: EN | 199 words

Record boss insists on iTunes price hike

The CEO of Warner Music has hit back Steve Jobs' jibe that record companies are being 'greedy' by demanding higher prices for music downloads. Edgar Bronfman said that the price of downloads should reflect the popularity of the artist and described Apple's one-price-fits-all approach as 'unfair'. (...) Jobs argued last week that raising prices will only result in an increase in file sharing and pointed out that the labels make more money from a song sold on the iTunes Music Store than they do from the same track on a CD.

Pc Pro, 2005, September 26th | Language: EN | 349 words

Court overturns RIAA mother-child case

THE RECORDING Industry Association of America (RIAA) has lost a key case where it attempted to sue a mother over her 13-year old child's file sharing abilities. According to CD Freaks, the case was overturned in a federal court in Michigan with prejudice. That means the RIAA case is lost.

Inquirer, 2005, September 26th | Language: EN | 148 words

Van het Groenewoud voert strijd tegen internetpiraterij op

Naar aanleiding van de release van de nieuwe cd van Raymond van het Groenewoud voeren Microsoft en platenmaatschappij EMI samen actie om de strijd tegen piraterij kracht bij te zetten. (...) Met deze actie willen de bedrijven naar eigen zeggen "de eerlijke consument belonen door hem gratis extra's aan te bieden". Zowat alle softwarebedrijven en platenfirma's zien hun inkomsten bedreigd door illegale kopieën van hun producten, luidt het.

Het Laatste Nieuws, 2005, September 26th | Language: NL | 213 words

De verleidelijke beet in de Apple

De Standaard, 2005, September 24th | Language: NL | 814 words

Parents and employers targeted in anti-P2P drive

The music and film industries are giving people who have swapped songs and other copyrighted material over the internet a new way to repent for their illicit ways. A free program released on Thursday, called Digital File Check, will uninstall or disable file-sharing programs on people's computers.

Silicon, 2005, September 23rd | Language: EN | 326 words

Brein scansoftware Digital File Check beschikbaar

Stichting Brein biedt sinds donderdag de Digital File Check software aan. Hiermee kunnen particulieren hun schijf doorzoeken op illegale mediabestanden. (...) De software Digital File Check zoekt naar mediabestanden en naar p2p-software en biedt aan deze te verwijderen.

Webwereld, 2005, September 22nd | Language: NL | 438 words

WinMX and eDonkey: offline, doors closed

Both P2P file sharing networks WinMX and eDonkey are bearing the brunt of increased pressure on companies who encourage copyright infringement.

The Register, 2005, September 22nd | Language: EN | 268 words

UK music biz touts anti-P2P application

The Register, 2005, September 22nd | Language: EN | 504 words

Good ship P2P burns to the waterline

In the space of one week, many of the P2P filesharing networks are on the verge of exiting the business either to offer a legal version with paid downloads, or selling up or simply closing up shop.

The Register, 2005, September 22nd | Language: EN | 812 words

Apple CEO against iTunes price hike

Apple boss Steve Jobs vowed Tuesday to repel "greedy" record companies' demands for higher music download prices, warning that any such move would encourage piracy. Jobs, speaking before the opening of the Apple Expo in Paris, said some music majors were pushing for an increase in prices on Apple's online iTunes Music Store. Apple's co-founder and CEO said record companies already earn more profit from songs sold through iTunes -- cutting out costs of manufacturing, marketing and returns -- than from those sold on CD.

Business Week, 2005, September 20th | Language: EN | 693 words

Movie Studios Unite To Fight Piracy

The big movie studios are culling their resources for their most aggressive--and controversial--effort yet to combat piracy. (...) Fox, Universal, Paramount, Warner Bros., Sony (nyse: SNE - news - people ) and the The Walt Disney Co. (nyse: DIS - news - people ) came together Sept. 19 to form Movielabs, a joint venture that will evaluate and develop antipiracy technologies.

Forbes, 2005, September 20th | Language: EN | 813 words

Mashboxx to scoop up Grokster?

File-sharing service Grokster is in talks to be acquired by Mashboxx, which is attempting to establish a legal peer-to-peer music company (...)

Cnet, 2005, September 19th | Language: EN | 347 words

Sony, Warner sue Baidu over free music downloads

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp, EMI Group Plc and Universal Music Group are suing Baidu.com Inc, China's most-used Internet search engine, for allowing free downloads of their music.

Financial Inquirer, 2005, September 17th | Language: EN | 480 words

De eeuwige strijd tegen het downloaden

Waarom denkt de platen- en filmindustrie dat het nu eindelijk gedaan zal zijn met het illegale downloaden?

De Standaard, 2005, September 17th | Language: NL | 87 words

Sony says new Walkman is an iPod killer

Can the Walkman, the product that began the portable music revolution 26 years ago, make a comeback against the explosively popular iPod? (...) The line of sleek new digital music devices bear the venerable Walkman name, but sport such iPod-like features as tiny display screens, disk-controlled menus and internal memory able to store up to 13,000 songs in the high-end model. Sony makes no secret of its desire to reclaim eventually the global dominance of portable music players, a market it created in 1979 with the first Walkman cassette players.

Cnet, 2005, September 17th | Language: EN | 1084 words

Motorola fails to Rokr my world

The Motorola Rokr mobile faces an almost impossible task. It has to live up to the hype generated by the news that Apple was getting involved in the phone business. (...) Compared to other music mobiles available in the UK, the Rokr falls short. It should be able to hold more music, let you buy songs directly online and use these as ringtones.

Bbc, 2005, September 16th | Language: EN | 655 words

RIAA waarschuwt bestandsdelingbedrijven

De Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) heeft vrijwel alle populaire uitwisseldiensten als Bearshare, Limewire en WinMX een waarschuwing gestuurd dat juridische stappen aanstaande zijn.

Zdnet, 2005, September 16th | Language: NL | 221 words

Verkoper illegale concertopnames betaalt 8.000 euro schadevergoeding

Een man die illegale opnames van concerten aanbood op het internet, bekent schuld en betaalt een schadevergoeding aan auteursrechtenverenigingen Sabam en aan de International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (Ifpi).

De Standaard, 2005, September 14th | Language: NL | 410 words

Privé-kopie van muziek-cd is geen recht

Consumenten mogen een kopie van muziek-cd's maken voor privé-gebruik, maar dat is geen afdwingbaar recht. Dat oordeelde het Hof van Beroep in Brussel vandaag in een zaak die consumentenorganisatie Test-Aankoop aanspande tegen vier grote platenfirma's: Sony, EMI, BMG en Universal Music. (...) Ook het Franse gerecht oordeelde gelijkaardig in een rechtszaak die door een Franse verbruikersorganisatie was ingeleid.

De Standaard, 2005, September 14th | Language: NL | 198 words

Depeche Mode ticket download plan

Depeche Mode fans will be able to buy advance tickets for the band's US tour when they download their forthcoming album from iTunes. US fans who pre-order Playing the Angel will receive a password giving them the chance to purchase up to four tickets for select American tour dates.

Bbc, 2005, September 14th | Language: EN | 237 words

Verkoper van Bootlegs betaalt schadevergoeding.

IFPI Belgium stelde vast dat via een veilingsite tientallen bootlegs te koop werden aangeboden van artiesten zoals David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed, enz. (...) Via de beslagrechter bekwamen SABAM en IFPI Belgium een machtiging om tegen deze persoon een beslag inzake namaak te leggen. De gerechtsdeurwaarder nam ter plaatse 2055 illegale exemplaren in beslag.

IFPI Belgium (Belgian Entertainment Association), 2005, September 14th | Language: NL | 268 words

Vermaakindustrie toch akkoord met Internet2

De muziek- en de filmindustrie sluiten zich aan bij de coalitie die promotie maakt voor Internet2, de snelle opvolger van het huidige internet. Slechts enkele maanden geleden verkeerde men nog op voet van oorlog met sommige Internet2-gebruikers. (...) De veel hogere snelheden van Internet2 maken het downloaden van muziek en vooral films nog gemakkelijker. Momenteel wordt er al aardig wat illegaal filmmateriaal van het internet afgehaald. Films in hoge kwaliteit (bijvoorbeeld hoge definitie) blijven vooralsnog onaantrekkelijk vanwege de langere downloadtijden.

Zdnet, 2005, September 12th | Language: NL | 220 words

Music file swapping network in the dock

Another file sharing network has been brought to book over copyright infringements. The Taiwan music service Kuro has been found guilty of criminal charges and becomes the first such case to see the imposition of gaol terms. The owners of the Taiwan-based Fashionow company, which operates Kuro, have been sentenced to three years in prison, and the company has been fined 3 million Taiwanese dollars (T$).

Pc Pro, 2005, September 12th | Language: EN | 413 words

EDonkey Leads P2P

A recent study conducted by intelligent broadband network equipment maker Sandvine, confirms that eDonkey continues to be king of P2P (peer-to-peer) file sharing networks in France and Germany while BitTorrent remains dominant in the UK and North America.

Light Reading, 2005, September 12th | Language: EN | 337 words

Rush to download War Child album

More than 4,000 copies of the new War Child charity album featuring Coldplay, Radiohead and Gorillaz have been downloaded in two-and-a-half days. Organisers say Help: A Day in the Life is the fastest-selling download album. (...) Help: A Day in the Life, which costs £9.99 to download, is currently on the warchildmusic.com website and will be available on major download sites from Tuesday.

Bbc, 2005, September 12th | Language: EN | 518 words

IPod phone isn't perfect, but it's a start

The companies aren't especially forthcoming on the reason for the 100-song limitation, but it's not hard to imagine Apple worrying about the Rokr's impact on the sales of real iPods. (...) And it's certainly true that financial interests of the three collaborators--Apple, Motorola and Cingular--have hog-tied the Rokr in a lot of unnecessary ways. The phone would be so much better if it held more music, let you buy songs directly online and let you use songs as ring tones. If you're looking for an iPod phone, in other words, the Rokr isn't it .

Cnet, 2005, September 10th | Language: EN | 1309 words

MPAA And RIAA Join Internet2

Internet2, the foremost U.S. advanced networking consortium led by the research and higher education community, today announced that the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) joined Internet2 as corporate members.

Riaa, 2005, September 9th | Language: EN | 499 words

IFPI welcomes landmark conviction of Taiwan file-sharing service Kuro

IFPI (...) has welcomed the conviction of Taiwan-based internet file-sharing service Kuro, in what is the first criminal conviction of a peer-to-peer (p2p) service in the world. A Taiwan court today convicted Kuro of criminal copyright infringement, imposing a fine of NT$3 million (approx US$90,000) and sentencing the three principals of Kuro, along with a user, to jail terms of up to three years.

IFPI, 2005, September 9th | Language: EN | 368 words

Podcasten met Mauro

Vanaf zaterdag zijn onuitgegeven nummers van Mauro Pawlowski te beluisteren via ,,The Bootleg Bar'', een podcastproject van twee Antwerpenaren. Podcasting, een soort radio op aanvraag via het internet, breekt langzaam maar zeker door bij een groter publiek.

De Standaard, 2005, September 9th | Language: NL | 474 words

Potter books on sale as downloads

The Harry Potter novels have been put on sale as audio downloads in a bid by author JK Rowling to tackle piracy. All six books, including the most recent release Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, can now be purchased in the US via Apple's iTunes site. Rowling sanctioned the move after fans reported online bootleg editions.

Bbc, 2005, September 8th | Language: EN | 395 words

Vlaamse popindustrie wil groeien

Vlaamse popindustrie wil groeien Cultuur en economie werken samen BRUSSEL - De Vlaamse popwereld wil doorbreken in Europa. Managers en boekingskantoren groeperen zich in verenigingen, en onder impuls van de administratie Cultuur wordt gekeken hoe popmuziek op een nieuwe manier gesteund kan worden: niet als cultuur, maar als cultuurindustrie.

De Standaard, 2005, September 8th | Language: NL | 0 words

Multimedia mobiles face the music

The Rokr iTunes mobile from Motorola and Apple enters a crowded market. Here are some of the mobiles vying to take the place of the digital music player. (Nokia N91, O2 XM, Orange SPV C550, Sony Ericsson W800i)

Bbc, 2005, September 8th | Language: EN | 1407 words

Rokr iTunes phone, iPod Nano unveiled

Apple Computer on Wednesday unveiled a tiny new iPod that will replace the popular iPod Mini and a cell phone capable of playing music downloaded from a computer running iTunes. (...) The fully featured Nano, which is thinner than a pencil and roughly the size of a business card, uses flash memory rather than the small, spinning hard drives used in Minis. (...) Extending the iPod/iTunes franchise into a new market, Apple and Motorola on Wednesday also unveiled the Rokr, a color-screen cell phone that can hold music downloaded from iTunes. (...) It can hold only 100 songs, even if the consumer inserts a memory card larger than the 512MB card that ships with the phone.

Cnet, 2005, September 8th | Language: EN | 985 words

Apple lanceert muzikale mobilofoon en flinterdunne iPod

Apple lanceerde gisteren een muzikale mobilofoon en een flinterdunne versie van zijn draagbare mp3-speler iPod. De telefoon werd ontwikkeld door de Amerikaanse fabrikant Motorola en kan 100 liedjes opslaan. Op de nieuwe iPod nano kunnen tot 1.000 nummers. (...) Apple moet met nieuwe draagbare muziekspelers op de markt komen want langs de ene kant voelt het bedrijf de hete adem van een Samsung Electronics en Creative Technology in zijn nek, en langs de andere kant willen muziekproviders Microsoft en Yahoo hun deel van de markt.

De Standaard, 2005, September 8th | Language: NL | 336 words

Sony vernieuwt de Walkman

(...) een ambitieuze nieuwe mp3-speler moet de 26 jaar oude Walkman-tak nieuw leven inblazen. Sony noemt de nieuwe speler, die in een versie met 6 (NW-A1000) en 20 gigabyte (NW-A3000) uitkomt, de New Walkman. Het nieuwe zit hem volgens Sony in de organische vorm, het grote OLED-scherm en 'intelligente functies' Het bedrijf heeft goed gekeken naar de uiterst succesvolle telefoons van de joint-venture met Ericsson.

Zdnet, 2005, September 8th | Language: NL | 288 words

Wave of charges against P2P filesharers

Thousands of charges are currently being filed with the state prosecutor's office in Karlsruhe against users of file-sharing systems for violations of copyright. According to information gathered by heise online, a law firm in Karlsruhe is working with Swiss company Logistep to file these charges.

Heise Online, 2005, September 7th | Language: EN | 634 words

Napster boasts world's largest catalogue of digital tracks

With both HMV and Virgin throwing their weight behind the relaunch of their online music services - HMV Digital and Virgin Digital.com, respectively - Napster is keen to remind people of its place in the music download market. (...) As well as revealing that its catalogue of digital tracks has grown to 1.6 million, which it claims is the largest in the world, it has 750,000 registered UK users and provided 55 million downloads or streams in the 15 months of its re-emergence.

Pc Pro, 2005, September 6th | Language: EN | 328 words

IFPI Belgium opgetogen over veroordeling Kazaa

Voor de muziekindustrie wordt 2005 een kanteljaar wat de strijd tegen het illegaal downloaden van databestanden betreft. Dat voorspelt Marcel Heymans van IFPI Belgium, de Belgische afdeling van de internationale organisatie van muziekproducenten (IFPI). Heymans reageerde daarmee onder meer op de veroordeling van Kazaa maandag.

Het Laatste Nieuws, 2005, September 6th | Language: NL | 510 words

Kazaa moet legaal werken

Kazaa moet legaal werken Australische rechtbank veroordeelt downloaddienst BRUSSEL - Kazaa staat zijn gebruikers toe de auteursrechten te schenden, door illegaal muziek uit te wisselen. Het bedrijf treedt daar onvoldoende tegen op. Om verder misbruik te voorkomen, moet de downloaddienst binnen de twee maanden zijn software aanpassen. Een Australische rechtbank heeft dat gisteren beslist.

De Standaard, 2005, September 6th | Language: NL | 0 words

Napster users 'giving up on CDs'

Music fans are giving up buying CDs in favour of downloading music, according to download service Napster's UK arm. Some 150,000 of Napster UK's 750,000 members say they no longer buy CDs, the company has revealed. And Napster UK manager Leanne Sharman said it was "a matter of time" before downloading overtook high street shops as the most popular way to buy music.

Bbc, 2005, September 5th | Language: EN | 416 words

Canada music piracy haven, industry says

The Canadian Recording Industry Association is calling on Ottawa to make sure Canada's copyright law is up to par after an Australian court ruled popular file-swapping network Kazaa was illegal. "The law that is currently on the books -- that's enforced -- is so antiquated that the net result has been, (that) despite all of our best efforts, Canada's become a piracy haven," association president Graham Henderson said in an interview Monday. (...) According to a June report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Canada has the highest per capita rate of unauthorized file-swapping in the world. It has also been reported to have the second highest level of broadband penetration, making it vulnerable to piracy.

Globe And Mail, 2005, September 5th | Language: EN | 465 words

Brein komt met voorlichting en verwijdertool

Stichting Brein begint een voorlichtingsoffensief rond illegaal downloaden expliciet gericht op ouders. Controversieel element is een gratis programma dat een computer scant op illegale inhoud en gevonden bestanden naar wens laat verwijderen. Op 22 september wordt het programma Digital File Check beschikbaar gesteld, omdat volgens Brein ouders niet weten wat hun kinderen van internet binnenhalen en de gevaren niet onderkennen.

Zdnet, 2005, September 5th | Language: NL | 330 words

Australian court rules against Kazaa

An Australian court on Monday ruled that the managers of peer-to-peer software Kazaa had authorized users to infringe on music copyrights and directed them to modify the application to reduce the practice. (...) Kazaa can remain in operation, Wilcox said, if the software maker meets either of two conditions. First, "non-optional key-word filter technology" would need to be included in current versions of the software received by new users and in future versions of the software and if "maximum pressure" was exerted on existing users to upgrade to a new version containing the technology. The other option was that the Altnet search software--called TopSearch--be restricted to providing lists of non-copyright-infringing works.

Cnet, 2005, September 5th | Language: EN | 1013 words

Music download market to heat up

Two of the UK's biggest High Street music stores are to launch download services, to compete in a market dominated by PC and software firms. Virgin launches its service on Friday 2 September with HMV launching its rival HMV Digital service three days later. Both rely on a subscription model where users can listen to any music - as long as they keep paying a monthly fee. Apple's iTunes service, in contrast, asks users to pay per track or album, but sets no time limit. HMV and Virgin hope that by leveraging their brands, the new services will tempt older music lovers away from CDs and into the digital age of downloading.

Bbc, 2005, September 2nd | Language: EN | 516 words

DVD Jon hacks Media Player file encryption

Norway's best known IT export, DVD Jon, has hacked encryption coding in Microsoft's Windows Media Player, opening up content broadcast for the multimedia player to alternative devices on multiple platforms.

The Register, 2005, September 2nd | Language: EN | 472 words