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walktalker · 04-03-02, 03:36 PM

Adobe Hackers: We're Immune
The Russian company that created software to circumvent Adobe's e-book format argued on Monday that its conduct -- which caused the arrest and detainment of programmer Dmitri Sklyarov in a high-profile case last summer -- was not illegal. Elcomsoft, the Moscow-based software firm, claimed that because it offered the encryption-breaking software on the Internet, the company was not subject to U.S. copyright law.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50797,00.html

Recording Honcho Presses Ahead
The U.S. music industry will continue to experiment with controversial copy-protected CDs, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. "CD copy protection technology is a measured response to a very serious problem facing the music industry today," RIAA chief Hilary Rosen said in a letter (PDF) last Thursday, referring to online piracy through informal MP3 swapping or more organized file-trading applications.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,50810,00.html

House Cool to Copy Protection
The U.S. House of Representatives doesn't seem willing to intercede in an increasingly bitter dispute over embedding copy protection controls in all consumer electronic devices. Key legislators in the House have indicated they're skeptical of the government mandating anti-piracy technology, an approach that Democrats of the Senate Commerce Committee endorsed during a hearing last Thursday. Fretting that online piracy of digital content will imperil sales, Hollywood studios have asked Congress to bypass their negotiations with Silicon Valley firms by requiring that all PCs and consumer electronics sport technology to prohibit illicit copying. Senate Commerce Chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) has championed this approach.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50784,00.html

Colombia's Cyber (Un)Civil War
After Colombia's largest guerilla group hijacked a commercial plane and kidnapped a senator last week, the government called off peace talks and sent troops to take back a Switzerland-sized chunk of territory it ceded to the rebels in 1998. But even as their foot soldiers clash in Colombia's thick jungles, the leaders of the government and the rebel forces are waging a second, equally crucial battle in cyberspace to conquer public opinion.
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50748,00.html

China Impounds Pirated CDs
Chinese customs officers have seized the country's biggest haul of pirated CDs after a chase at sea, the Legal Daily newspaper reported on Monday. Four million CDs were impounded from a fishing boat on Saturday by customs officers from the southern city of Shenzhen, but the smugglers escaped in a high-speed boat in the direction of nearby Hong Kong. Piracy of intellectual property is rampant in China despite promises by the government to root it out, a commitment made on joining the World Trade Organization last year.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50805,00.html

Scholars Who Dig-itize Gutenberg
When people think about the printing revolution, one name comes to mind: Johannes Gutenberg. But what if Gutenberg didn't actually invent the revolutionary technique of mass-producing words as we know it today? Scholars will soon get a chance to examine in exquisite detail what is considered the first book printed with moveable type. A project is currently underway at the Library of Congress to digitize its copy of the Gutenberg Bible. The library has partnered with Octavo to photograph, scan and digitize every binding, endsheet and page of the three-volume Bible.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50589,00.html

Teaching E.T. About Altruism
The SETI Institute wants the cosmos to know we can play nice. Should we humans receive a signal indicating that another civilization exists elsewhere in the galaxy, the message chief for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence says encoding the concept of altruism in our reply might make for a good first impression. Earth has deliberately sent signals into deep space before. In 1974 the Arecibo Observatory transmitted -- to the M13 star cluster 25,000 light years away -- a binary code schematic of our solar system, chemical compounds supporting life as we know it, the structure of DNA and the pixelated human form. Very dry.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50768,00.html

Kazaa: A Copyright Conundrum
A California multimedia company with ties to an Australian venture capitalist firm involved with the Kazaa file-trading network could be headed for legal troubles. The complex relationships between companies involved in file-trading networks in four countries are unraveling, and entertainment companies that want to protect their intellectual property are taking notice. This could lead to legal action in the United States against companies helping develop the networks.
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50788,00.html

Huge ice field found on Mars
The Mars Odyssey orbiter has found a vast field of water ice stretching from the Martian south pole to 60 degrees south. "There's a lot of ice on Mars," Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona told a NASA press conference. The evidence comes from three separate components of the spacecraft's Gamma Ray Spectrometer. Seeking water is one of Mars Odyssey's top priorities. An earlier mission, Mars Global Surveyor, revealed sharply etched features that suggested erosion by flowing water, but could not tell if any water was still present or if it had all vanished early in Martian history.
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991994

Bid to outlaw DNA trophy hunters
Stealing DNA material must be made a crime to prevent celebrities facing demands from blackmailers who learn their secrets from snatched samples, a government body will recommend. Advances in technology now mean that DNA traces can be taken from a chewed pen top or a coffee cup from which someone has drunk. These can be tested without the victim knowing to reveal potentially embarrassing information about their parentage, medical history or, potentially, such traits as alcoholism or aggression.
http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/st...660991,00.html

NRA Takes Dell's Side In Dispute With Gunsmith
Stepping into the middle of a fiery debate, the National Rifle Association has declared that Dell Computer Corp. is not an enemy of gun owners. In a message posted Friday at its Web site and faxed to some members, the nation's biggest gun lobbying organization weighed in on a dispute between a Pennsylvania gunsmith named Jack Weigand and the Texas-based computer maker.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174938.html

StreamCast Suggests Competitors Torpedoed Morpheus
What looked last week like a software glitch that disconnected more than 1 million online file traders is now described by the distributors of the Morpheus software as a deliberate attack on their system and their users. And StreamCast - formerly MusicCity - of Franklin, Tenn., implied Friday that what it called an "unprovoked attack" appeared to have originated from within the FastTrack peer-to-peer platform it had shared with competitors Kazaa and Grokster.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174926.html

Microsoft Outlines Next Move in Antitrust Case
Microsoft Corp. plans to argue in court hearings next week that if antitrust sanctions sought by state prosecutors are granted, the company would be forced to pull its latest Windows computer operating systems off the market and be unable to develop new systems. In court filings late Friday, the company said the recently released consumer operating system, Windows XP, and the business-oriented Windows 2000 system could not be redesigned to satisfy state demands that they be made available in separate versions, with and without key programs, such as the Internet Explorer Web browser.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174924.html

U.S. Court Stakes Out New Turf In Barcelona.com Ruling
Lawyers who squared off in a trademark dispute between the operators of a tourism portal and Barcelona, Spain, disagree on whether a U.S. District Court judge made the right call this month when he awarded the Internet address Barcelona.com to the city. But they agree that the judge broke new ground in U.S. anti-cybersquatting law. Claude Hilton, the chief judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, ruled in the city's favor with a decision based on trademark law in Spain.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174913.html

Lawmakers Urge Russians To Beef Up Piracy Enforcement
group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this month urged Russian authorities to take software piracy and intellectual property theft more seriously. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., told Newsbytes that the lawmakers wanted to convey the message that piracy prevention is "not just important to the United States, but also to industry in their country". "They have a small but budding Internet business (but) they're not going to be able to grow those businesses if they let their own citizens rip off whatever they develop," Goodlatte said.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174908.html

Ashcroft Asks Telcos To Help Track Terrorists
U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft shopped the Bush administration's anti-terrorism agenda to the nation's regional telecom providers today, urging them to press ahead with reforms that would make it easier for the government to intercept terrorist communications. He also asked for the industry's support for a bill that would allow companies to share sensitive data with the government without fearing that federal law would require the government to release it.
http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174905.html

More news later on

04-03-02, 03:36 PM	#2
walktalker The local newspaper man Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Montreal Posts: 2,036	Adobe Hackers: We're Immune The Russian company that created software to circumvent Adobe's e-book format argued on Monday that its conduct -- which caused the arrest and detainment of programmer Dmitri Sklyarov in a high-profile case last summer -- was not illegal. Elcomsoft, the Moscow-based software firm, claimed that because it offered the encryption-breaking software on the Internet, the company was not subject to U.S. copyright law. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50797,00.html Recording Honcho Presses Ahead The U.S. music industry will continue to experiment with controversial copy-protected CDs, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. "CD copy protection technology is a measured response to a very serious problem facing the music industry today," RIAA chief Hilary Rosen said in a letter (PDF) last Thursday, referring to online piracy through informal MP3 swapping or more organized file-trading applications. http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,50810,00.html House Cool to Copy Protection The U.S. House of Representatives doesn't seem willing to intercede in an increasingly bitter dispute over embedding copy protection controls in all consumer electronic devices. Key legislators in the House have indicated they're skeptical of the government mandating anti-piracy technology, an approach that Democrats of the Senate Commerce Committee endorsed during a hearing last Thursday. Fretting that online piracy of digital content will imperil sales, Hollywood studios have asked Congress to bypass their negotiations with Silicon Valley firms by requiring that all PCs and consumer electronics sport technology to prohibit illicit copying. Senate Commerce Chairman Fritz Hollings (D-South Carolina) has championed this approach. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50784,00.html Colombia's Cyber (Un)Civil War After Colombia's largest guerilla group hijacked a commercial plane and kidnapped a senator last week, the government called off peace talks and sent troops to take back a Switzerland-sized chunk of territory it ceded to the rebels in 1998. But even as their foot soldiers clash in Colombia's thick jungles, the leaders of the government and the rebel forces are waging a second, equally crucial battle in cyberspace to conquer public opinion. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,50748,00.html China Impounds Pirated CDs Chinese customs officers have seized the country's biggest haul of pirated CDs after a chase at sea, the Legal Daily newspaper reported on Monday. Four million CDs were impounded from a fishing boat on Saturday by customs officers from the southern city of Shenzhen, but the smugglers escaped in a high-speed boat in the direction of nearby Hong Kong. Piracy of intellectual property is rampant in China despite promises by the government to root it out, a commitment made on joining the World Trade Organization last year. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50805,00.html Scholars Who Dig-itize Gutenberg When people think about the printing revolution, one name comes to mind: Johannes Gutenberg. But what if Gutenberg didn't actually invent the revolutionary technique of mass-producing words as we know it today? Scholars will soon get a chance to examine in exquisite detail what is considered the first book printed with moveable type. A project is currently underway at the Library of Congress to digitize its copy of the Gutenberg Bible. The library has partnered with Octavo to photograph, scan and digitize every binding, endsheet and page of the three-volume Bible. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50589,00.html Teaching E.T. About Altruism The SETI Institute wants the cosmos to know we can play nice. Should we humans receive a signal indicating that another civilization exists elsewhere in the galaxy, the message chief for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence says encoding the concept of altruism in our reply might make for a good first impression. Earth has deliberately sent signals into deep space before. In 1974 the Arecibo Observatory transmitted -- to the M13 star cluster 25,000 light years away -- a binary code schematic of our solar system, chemical compounds supporting life as we know it, the structure of DNA and the pixelated human form. Very dry. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50768,00.html Kazaa: A Copyright Conundrum A California multimedia company with ties to an Australian venture capitalist firm involved with the Kazaa file-trading network could be headed for legal troubles. The complex relationships between companies involved in file-trading networks in four countries are unraveling, and entertainment companies that want to protect their intellectual property are taking notice. This could lead to legal action in the United States against companies helping develop the networks. http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,50788,00.html Huge ice field found on Mars The Mars Odyssey orbiter has found a vast field of water ice stretching from the Martian south pole to 60 degrees south. "There's a lot of ice on Mars," Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona told a NASA press conference. The evidence comes from three separate components of the spacecraft's Gamma Ray Spectrometer. Seeking water is one of Mars Odyssey's top priorities. An earlier mission, Mars Global Surveyor, revealed sharply etched features that suggested erosion by flowing water, but could not tell if any water was still present or if it had all vanished early in Martian history. http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991994 Bid to outlaw DNA trophy hunters Stealing DNA material must be made a crime to prevent celebrities facing demands from blackmailers who learn their secrets from snatched samples, a government body will recommend. Advances in technology now mean that DNA traces can be taken from a chewed pen top or a coffee cup from which someone has drunk. These can be tested without the victim knowing to reveal potentially embarrassing information about their parentage, medical history or, potentially, such traits as alcoholism or aggression. http://www.observer.co.uk/uk_news/st...660991,00.html NRA Takes Dell's Side In Dispute With Gunsmith Stepping into the middle of a fiery debate, the National Rifle Association has declared that Dell Computer Corp. is not an enemy of gun owners. In a message posted Friday at its Web site and faxed to some members, the nation's biggest gun lobbying organization weighed in on a dispute between a Pennsylvania gunsmith named Jack Weigand and the Texas-based computer maker. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174938.html StreamCast Suggests Competitors Torpedoed Morpheus What looked last week like a software glitch that disconnected more than 1 million online file traders is now described by the distributors of the Morpheus software as a deliberate attack on their system and their users. And StreamCast - formerly MusicCity - of Franklin, Tenn., implied Friday that what it called an "unprovoked attack" appeared to have originated from within the FastTrack peer-to-peer platform it had shared with competitors Kazaa and Grokster. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174926.html Microsoft Outlines Next Move in Antitrust Case Microsoft Corp. plans to argue in court hearings next week that if antitrust sanctions sought by state prosecutors are granted, the company would be forced to pull its latest Windows computer operating systems off the market and be unable to develop new systems. In court filings late Friday, the company said the recently released consumer operating system, Windows XP, and the business-oriented Windows 2000 system could not be redesigned to satisfy state demands that they be made available in separate versions, with and without key programs, such as the Internet Explorer Web browser. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174924.html U.S. Court Stakes Out New Turf In Barcelona.com Ruling Lawyers who squared off in a trademark dispute between the operators of a tourism portal and Barcelona, Spain, disagree on whether a U.S. District Court judge made the right call this month when he awarded the Internet address Barcelona.com to the city. But they agree that the judge broke new ground in U.S. anti-cybersquatting law. Claude Hilton, the chief judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, ruled in the city's favor with a decision based on trademark law in Spain. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174913.html Lawmakers Urge Russians To Beef Up Piracy Enforcement group of U.S. lawmakers earlier this month urged Russian authorities to take software piracy and intellectual property theft more seriously. Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., told Newsbytes that the lawmakers wanted to convey the message that piracy prevention is "not just important to the United States, but also to industry in their country". "They have a small but budding Internet business (but) they're not going to be able to grow those businesses if they let their own citizens rip off whatever they develop," Goodlatte said. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174908.html Ashcroft Asks Telcos To Help Track Terrorists U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft shopped the Bush administration's anti-terrorism agenda to the nation's regional telecom providers today, urging them to press ahead with reforms that would make it easier for the government to intercept terrorist communications. He also asked for the industry's support for a bill that would allow companies to share sensitive data with the government without fearing that federal law would require the government to release it. http://www.newsbytes.com/news/02/174905.html More news later on __________________ This post was sponsored by Netcoco, who wants cookies, cookies, cookies and, you guessed it, more cookies