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MDY Industries developed a popular World of Warcraft bot by the name of MMOGlider. Popular because, I would imagine, it took much of the donkey work out of progressing through the virtual world by automating repetitive tasks. You know, the boring stuff such as slaying monsters and scavenging for...
Read More | 10 Days Ago
Italian Internet Service Providers have been ordered to block access to the Pirate Bay file-sharing Bit Torrent tracker site in Sweden by a judge in the Northern Italian town of Bergamo.
This is the same judge, who has not been named, which only last month closed a leading Bit Torrent site in...
Read More | Aug 16th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Aug 16th, 2008
According to ChannelWeb a federal judge sitting in the US Court of Appeals has ruled that open source software licenses are legal under copyright law. This is a complete u-turn on a previous ruling which had thrown the not so small matter of open source licensing into something of a legal...
Read More | Aug 14th, 2008
I'm on vacation right now in Germany, and I thought I could watch some American TV here on my PC. But I've learned that US sites consistently block their TV shows outside the US, a practice I find more than a bit curious. I tried the network sites. I tried alternative sites like Hulu.com, but all...
Read More | Aug 13th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Aug 13th, 2008
A federal court today ruled in favor of people using file-sharing applications such as Napster and Kazaa, notorious for illegal distribution of music files.
The ruling was a blow to the Recording Industry Association of America, which has been combating users and developers of this software...
Read More | Apr 30th, 2008 | Comments: 4 | Last Comment: May 4th, 2008
Who could forget DVD Jon, the Linux guru who was co-author of DeCSS? This Linux application 'unlocked' DVDs with content otherwise protected by Content Scrambling System (CSS) encryption and landed DVD Jon in front of a judge. Which did not stop him from continuing his quest to free audiovisual...
Read More | Feb 19th, 2008
Yes, in a bizarre twist and turn of fate, the original bad boy of illegal MP3 downloads which then went legit and hooked subscribers into music with Microsoft's digital rights management system has changed tack and announced it is to sell MP3 format tunes. So, OK, maybe not a real return to its...
Read More | Jan 8th, 2008 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Jan 10th, 2008
A proposal from the French Ministry of Culture could hit online music and movie piracy very hard with a very big stick if it goes ahead. In addition to the existing law, introduced only last year, which made unauthorised file-sharing a criminal offence carrying a 30,000 Euro fine and up to six...
Read More | Nov 26th, 2007 | Comments: 1 | Last Comment: Nov 27th, 2007
According to a legal document published at the Electronic Frontier Foundation site, the copyright Nazis at Universal Music Group might have bitten off more than they can chew when they ordered the removal of a Dancing baby clip from YouTube.
Stephanie Lenz posted a video clip on YouTube of her 18...
Read More | Oct 28th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Oct 28th, 2007
Many of the world's leading Internet and media companies, including CBS Corp., Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft Corp., MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh Networks Inc., Viacom Inc. and The Walt Disney Company, have pledged their support to a set of collaborative principles that are...
Read More | Oct 20th, 2007 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Oct 22nd, 2007
