RIAA Hard Drive Imaging Ruling
There is very interesting developments in just how the RIAA can image those they are suing hard drives. While the ruling change is significant, the responses on slashdot made me really wonder about people.
Category
Crime
SiteMeter.com Fails to Respond to Customer Outrage!
It has become obvious to me that the people behind Sitemeter are unwilling to respond to the allegations that a significant number of people have brought forth on their planting of third party cookies on their customers website visitors.
Betrayal of Trust is SiteMeter.com Planting 3rd Party Cookie?
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PayPerPost get spanked by womma
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association has published a very strong article that points out some of the business ethic issues that surrounds PayPerPost.com and their front organisation DisclosurePolicy.org
RIAA try to get ISP’s to hold customer logs longer!
The RIAA must be having some trouble in court as they have had issues with mis-identification of the people they are going after. So in order to preserve evidence longer they want ISP’s to hold connection logs up to 180 days. If the ISP agrees to do so apparently the RIAA will offer those they are suing a discount on their settlement of $1000.00
Strong Arming Congress the MPAA way!
We all know that the MPAA hates fair use and have gone to great lengths to block consumers access to media that they legally own through industry tainted legislation.
EFF Decodes the DocuColor Tracking Dots
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has broken the code that is being embedded into colour documents to track when a document has been printed and the serial number of the machine that did it.