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LimeWire is Back in the Game
That took even less time than I expected. I had a feeling we’d see popular P2P client LimeWire again, but I didn’t think it would be this fast. Reports are surfacing that the software has already been resurrected by a group of self-named hackers. “Not only has a secret dev team reanimated the hugely popular [...]
DDoS Attacks Bring Down the U.S. Copyright Office
Anonymous initiated a DDoS attack against the U.S. Copyright Office yesterday in an attempt to show their disdain against the defenders of copyright law. The site was knocked completely offline for about thirty minutes. The following few hours showed it crawling along with slow loading times and rendering it useless. Even several hours after the [...]
RIAA Slams the Door on Another Music Site – Mulve
Mulve was the hottest music-sharing site to hit the Internet in a long time… may it rest in peace. Within a few days, the site was seeing more than 30,000 visitors a day and they were carrying out around 15000 searches every hour. It wasn’t exactly a P2P site, since nothing was ever uploaded by [...]
Duke Pulls the Plug on Usenet
Today, May 20th 2010, marks a sad day for all of us who remember – and grew up with – Usenet. Duke University will be forever pulling the plug on the once-popular means of communication, laying it to rest at long last. More than thirty years ago, Usenet was started by two then-students as a [...]
RIAA Abandons Mass Lawsuits in Favor of ISP Deals
The RIAA has attempted to sue approximately 35,000 people since 2003 – some of those suits being downright heartless: suing single mothers, children, and and a dead person. They are now abandoning this backwards policy and striking deals with ISPs – but the devil is in the details, and the fine print that cannot be [...]
DRM and Greed
Bruce Munro has been listening – and my videos on DRM and the future of the RIAA really set him off: Before the RIAA can get back the business, they might want to look at what got them here. In the 60′s and 70′s, a 50 cent 45 RPM record was a promotional item, meant [...]
Top 5 Tips to Save the RIAA and the Music Industry
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed With the advent of DRM, the music industry is increasingly losing serious amounts of profits. Piracy is at an all-time high, and there’s no end in sight. What can be done to help the music industry save themselves? Here are five [...]
Do You Own the Music, or Does the RIAA?
Chris | Live Tech Support | Video Help | Add to iTunes http://live.pirillo.com/ – The lead attorney for Sony BMG announced publically that copying music you legally purchased for your own use is illegal. The round table had a field day with this one. Four of my friends joined me for this discussion: Kat, SC_Thor, [...]
Buying Digital Content at Gnomedex
Ethan Kaplan (no relation to Pud) wants to talk about buying digital audio and video: The $39 Dollar Song and 6 Cent Ringtone didn’t really light up the charts on the TechMeme saturated blogosphere, but it is a valid discussion to have, especially when the business of content is exploding as it is (to use [...]
