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Apparently a DVD manufacture in Taiwan was producing DVD players which outputs could be recorded. The MPAA does not like it when companies push the boundaries that allow consumers to have fair use of the data that they buy. I suppose some naysayer will say hey you don't buy music you license it. Well semantics aside I feel everyone should
I have been mulling this over for a few days and am saddened that another company has been destroyed by the Mafia like organizations that went after them in the courts for giving consumers the tools to allow fair use of media that they own. I have to give the men and women that worked at 321 Studios a Bronze
Well in another win for enemy number one in the file sharing the RIAA can now get the identities of file sharers in mass. This will help them expedite their lawsuits against thousands of file sharers [Corante]
A hacker group calling themselves Source Code Club are offering up source code for a price they are initially only offering publicly several programs although they claim to have a lot more warez and if need be can get other Top 100 companies source in 90 days for a price. Pretty bold if you ask me, but the FBI has
A new coalition made up of big name technology companies IBM, Intel, Sony, Microsoft, Warner Bros., Disney and Panasonic have vowed to stop consumers from being able to record HDTV in the privacy of our own homes. Their is already legislation to lock out your Digital Video recorders starting July 1st through embedded chips. This coalition is not good news
Techdirt has a great article about the ridiculous INDUCE Act that was penned by Senator Hatch. It seems that the RIAA under a lot of pressure as a lot of major players are against the ACT have sent all 100 senators a letter telling them how this law will not affect the Betamax decision. Buzz on over to Techdirt for
It is being deduced that the Beagle author released the source code so that if he was caught he can claim that the source code is available on the net to help divert attention away from him. What is also interesting is the code is written in pure assembler proving this was no amateur. Expect a significant number variants of