Napster Injunction Won't Be Beefed Up, Judge Rules
The federal judge whose court has become the official home of Napster lawsuits ruled today that an opinion on the cases from the US Court of Appeals has made it virtually impossible for her to toughen a clampdown on Napster music- swapping.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165061.html
UK Copyright Chief Says Laws Won't Stop Infringement
Copyright laws on their own are insufficient to stop piracy and other forms of intellectual copyright infringements, the head of the UK's Patent Office has warned. Anthony Murphy, the Patent Office's director of copyright, said this morning that the arrival of the digital age and the Internet has brought a raft of opportunities for online copyright infringement.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165035.html
SDMI Crackers Say Legal Threats Stymie Academic Freedom
Researchers who poked and prodded copyright- protection technology favored by record companies say threats of legal action from the music industry and a data-encryption company have forced them to keep a lid on their findings - for now.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/165031.html
Napster Apologizes For Blocking Too Many Songs
If you've noticed that it's getting increasingly hard to find just about anything on Napster lately, the file-sharing service has an explanation: it's called "overblocking." Napster has been incrementally improving its filtering process since March, when a judge ordered it to remove copyrighted songs cited by labels, artists and publishers.
http://www.sonicnet.com/news/digital...443211&index=3
The New Cove For Piracy
Ukraine has become the most troublesome source of pirated intellectual property in the world, according to a recent report from the United States Trade Representative, beating out former top pirates China, Paraguay and the Russian Federation.
http://www.thestandard.com/article/0,1902,23978,00.html
The New Spin: Paying for Online Tunes
Rock freak Rob Glaser has 2,000 songs on his computer's hard drive, ripped from his CD collection of such faves as Foo Fighters, U2 and Poe, plus Napster downloads, mostly of outtakes, live cuts and TV performances. "I tip my hat to Napster not just for showing there'd be a demand for download music, but also for proving that a lot of what people want to download isn't just the studio versions," he says. But Glaser's not your ordinary techno-geek music fan. He's the CEO of RealNetworks.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/news.php3?id=04262001b
Radio's big bully
In the late 1990s, while no one was looking, a corporate behemoth became the largest owner and biggest force in America's most venerable mass medium: commercial radio. Want your record played on one of those stations? Be prepared to pay -- dearly -- for the privilege.
http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/200...nel/index.html
Best MP3 player you’ve never heard
If you’re in the market for a portable digital audio player, you’ve probably considered all of the well-known devices, from Creative Labs’ Nomad line to Sonicblue’s Rio line. But if you limit yourself to the big boys, you’re going to miss out on one of the top players on the market. In fact, Archos Technology’s Jukebox 6000 is hands down the best player you’ve never heard of and arguably better than most of the ones with which you are familiar.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/566427.asp?0nm=C18M
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