Court decision.

ACS.

Kerry might "defang the DMCA."

Can't find a working link, but MP3's now have gold/platinum records as a possibility.

P2P hiding.

Commentary on Verizon v RIAA.

SNIU.

--Ari

iPod Photo. Probably a precursor to a video-based iPod?

Courts finally grok DMCA.

Rosen like the Creative Commons. Go figure.

SNIU, but not one the RIAA would like.

CC Sampler.

Odd.

I've never quite understood the logic of using proprietary formats in standards, and particularly a Microsoft standard.

--Ari

Better living through technology.

More on the DOJ's odd priorities.

P2P statistics.

Peerio. Major, major, huge, SNIU.

Yet another example of SNIU, from the ashes of Napster 1.0.

Lessig's P2P Politics site hits mainstream. SNIU.

FTC hosting P2P workshop. Wonder how biased it will be...?

Online downloads plateau.

NEONet, a new P2P service. Aims for faster searches.

MPAA gives plum lobbying job to Democrats. Republicans cut $250M in subsidies. Why were they getting these in the first place?

--Ari

Payola's back.

Software patents bad. Doesn't mean they're not going to get passed.

SNIU--from the RIAA itself.

Wearable receiver/recorder for XM radio.

CD sales up, despite RIAA whining.

MP3s on the decline?

--Ari

ASCAP and RMLC reach agreement. Doesn't seem too positive to me--why should online royalties be in addition to on-air royalties?


It is by poking about inside current technology that hackers get ideas for the next generation. No thanks, intellectual homeowners may say, we don't need any outside help. But they're wrong. The next generation of computer technology has often-- perhaps more often than not-- been developed by outsiders.

Not only did Diebold lose its attempt to censor pertinent election information using copyright law, but now they have to pay for it.

Choice quotes from Ashcroft on the eve of Kahle v Ashcroft.

--Ari

Sup. Ct. rejects consideration of ban on fast-track subpoenas.

First abuse of the broadcast flag emerges--and it's not even here yet.

Wal-Mart tired of high CD prices as well.

--Ari

MS: leading the way in anti-competitive DRM practices.

Experimental use evaporating. I started writing an article a good while ago about the perils of the corporatization of universities. At Penn, GET-UP is one example. This is another.

eDonkey most-used now. Amusingly enough, last I checked, Kazaa was still the most-sued, meaning record companies are still behind the curve.

Senate stalls unfortunate legislation.

Sup. Ct. lets lower court's ruling against non-judicial DMCA subpoenas stand.

--Ari

Scary new bill moving through Senate.

Barriers to entry.

--Ari

Google Print service may aid in cutting out the middlemen. Curious the different paths book and music publishing industries seem to be taking.

$260M: The price of "all human knowledge." It's breathtaking in its scope when you sum it down to a relatively small figure, how much benefit to society is being removed by things like the SBCEA and DMCA and IICA.

SNIU on the Internet2. Binghamton U. apparently feels the need to restrict its virtually-unlimited bandwidth on the I2 down to sub-cable-modem speeds.

--Ari

Interesting that SNIU is starting to move back into the mainstream conception of copyright.

Nice list of SNIU's.

The cost of music.

Push for unified DRM standard.

Scary. Truly scary.

Broadcast flag lawsuit.

Ballmer panned with the Register.

--Ari

P2P services drive innovations in networking tech implementation with distributed hash files.

As latest round of lawsuits hits, more stories of recalcitrant parents suffering hit the media.

Scrawford on why legislating good v bad P2P is unfortunate.

1996 law legislating what people can view on the Internet still not enforce(d/able). Any hopes for anti-P2P legislation?

We've seen before how Microsoft is using DRM as a tool to sustain its monopoly, and now the EU agress.

Major SNIU.

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

Big cases decided:
Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons v Diebold
BNETD decided unfavorably.
WIPO comes out in favor of free content

And some SNIU

--Ari

MS's latest dirty trick: "Most songs on iPods are pirated." Well, duh.

Lawsuit mania spreads.

Iceland P2P raids cause 40% drop in net traffic. I'd like to see this controlled for other factors...40% is too huge to be real.

Apple to open borderless music store. At least pan-Eu.

Sony tries to justify discontinuing ineffective DRM with ineffective publicity campaign.

SNIU!

Format wars A bad idea.

--Ari

DMCA takedown notice abuse provision finally used to prevent abuse. Congrats EFF.

A god has been copywritten.

Major SNIU from the other Penn.

--Ari