Crime

FCC Betrayed the Trust of all Americans!

I knew I was going to be disappointed today when the FCC announced the auction rules for the 700mhz Spectrum. They had a chance to allow for true innovation. Instead they have once again allowed companies like AT&T and Verizon…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

Forcing Digital Rights Management into Internet radio!

Has all of the drama over the past few months on the increase in payment rates that streaming radio stations would have to pay be tied back ultimately to DRM. If you look at what has transpired over the past…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

Russia shuts down Allofmp3.com

I am not surprised the the Russians have shut down AllofMP3.com they have been under considerable pressure for some time. But just as the PirateBay went of the map for a few days, I am betting that AllofMP3.com will be…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

Amendment would BAN all DVD Copying

In what will be a mortal strike to Fair Use! The amendment is currently being considered by the Content Protection Advisory Council (CPAC) of the DVD CCA. If voted on the current copy protection license governing DVDs would eliminate all DVD…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

RIAA Looses to Gain Student Identities thru University

The RIAA was up to their standard tricks again, they wanted the University of New Mexico just to hand over their students information accused of file sharing copyrighted material. Well a District Court judge ruled that they are not going…

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Todd Cochrane
Crime

TorrentSpy now Spying on Users!

TorrentSpy one of the leading Torrent sites has been ordered by a judge to keep log files of all their users actions through log file monitoring, They were ordered to keep log files overriding their own privacy policy which says…

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Todd Cochrane