Comment Re:The Jericho Tavern Party (Score 1) 21
Things are not looking good here, probably won't be able to come and if I do I will be rather late.
Submission + - RIAA Conceals Overturned Case
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "When a "pro se" litigant (i.e. someone representing himself) lost a motion, and the Judge agreed with the RIAA's claim that "making available" was actionable under the Copyright Act, in Atlantic v. Howell, the RIAA was quick to bring this "authority" to the attention of the judges in Elektra v. Barker and Warner v. Cassin, who were considering the same issue. When the pro se litigant made a motion for "reconsideration", and succeeded in getting the judge's decision overturned, they were not so quick, however, to inform those same judges of this new development. When the defendants' lawyers found out — a week after the RIAA's lawyers learned of it — they had to notify the judges themselves . At this moment we can only speculate as to what legal authorities they cited to the judge in Duluth, Minnesota, to get him to instruct the jurors that just "making available" was good enough."
Submission + - Microsoft sued about scratched Xbox 360 discs (hdtvinfo.eu)
Xbm360 writes: "Microsoft has been sued by Jorge Brouwer from the US who claims that Xbox 360s scratched his game discs, making them unusable.
Jack Evans, a Microsoft spokesman, stated about these complaints; "Out of the millions of Xbox consoles in use, Microsoft has not received any widespread reports of Xbox 360s scratching discs""
Submission + - Microsoft using .ms TLDs - Get your own today!
mqudsi writes: Microsoft has started using the (Montserrat-assigned) .MS tld to power its Web 2.0 projects, starting with Popfly.ms. You can get your own if you really want, starting at 180 USD a pop... Any bets on how long before Microsoft threatens any and all .ms domain name owners with litigation?
Warner Brothers Pulls Canadian Previews 273
A number of readers let us know that Reuters and others are reporting that Warner Brothers is canceling movie previews in Canadian theaters, starting with Oceans Thirteen. A Warner VP said, "Within the first week of a film's release, you can almost be certain that somewhere out there a Canadian copy will show up." Recently, the International Intellectual Property Association placed Canada on its Priority Watch List, along with the likes of Argentina, China, Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. This community knows, thanks to Michael Geist, that the claim is mostly ficiton.
Submission + - Girl uses DMCA to Remove Blog Post of her Fake ID
TrippTDF writes: "Rachel Hyman, an artist and bartender in New York City, maintains a blog where she regularly posts images of fake IDs she confiscates from would-be underage drinkers, along with a description of the confiscation. Recently, one of her posts (google cache) was taken down when the owner of the fake ID invoked the DMCA against the blog. Can one claim a forged document as a copyright-able material?"
Journal SPAM: Lords to probe surveillance society
The House of Lords will investigate whether the UK's 'surveillance society' is unconstitutional. The Lords' Constitution Committee has asked for evidence in an investigation it has launched into surveillance in the UK.
Feed Invention: Vibrating planes (pheedo.com)
Submission + - Apple Top 6: 6G iPod & Apple's future in busin
belsin_gordon writes: CNET rounds up what we're going to get from the next iPod and where Apple is heading as a company and as a business juggernaut. [They have the] 100GB widescreen video iPods, Wi-Fi-enabled iPods capable of on-the-fly movie downloads over the air, unlimited downloads from iTunes for a flat fee and the UK finally getting its content-hungry hands on movie downloads.
Apple has dropped the 'Computer' from its company name, and is making significant advances into the media-distribution business. It's bringing video to everyone everywhere with iTunes movies and now Apple TV, and the rumours and speculation we've discussed promote the theory that Apple is setting itself up as a major player in the media-distribution industry.
Apple has dropped the 'Computer' from its company name, and is making significant advances into the media-distribution business. It's bringing video to everyone everywhere with iTunes movies and now Apple TV, and the rumours and speculation we've discussed promote the theory that Apple is setting itself up as a major player in the media-distribution industry.
Feed AACS patch for WinDVD, HD DVD and BD players: update or never watch movies again (engadget.com)
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
In case DRM hasn't caused you -- the honest consumer -- enough pain already. Check it, you've got some required software updating to do now that Corel has introduced a patch to their cracked InterVideo WinDVD software. Best do it pronto too. According to Corel, "failure to apply the update will result in AACS-protected HD DVD and BD playback being disabled." That means no more HD DVD or Blu-ray Disc films for you, Mr. assumed criminal. Thing is, this is no ordinary patch since WinDVD exposed the hardware specific device key to video pirates. So not only are you required to update their janky WinDVD software, you also have to track down and install the paticular AACS patch for the HD DVD or BD player you own. Of course this only patches one flaw in the massively compromised DRM boondoggle. Just think, you can repeat the whole process again after hackers circumvent this latest attempt at "content protection." Isn't DRM nice?[Via Impress]
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Submission + - RIAA Wins Worst Company In America 2007
Anonymous Coward writes: "After 15 punishing rounds of combat involving 32 of America's most hated companies, 100,000 voters have spoken: More hated than Halliburton, more despised than Walmart, the RIAA has defeated all-comers to become the Worst Company in America 2007.
http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/worst-company- in-america/"
Submission + - EU Commissioner slams closed music ecosystems
Nonu writes: EU Commissioner for Consumer Protection Meglena Kuneva has come out against DRM lock-ins like Apple's iPod-iTunes combo. Kuneva said she believes the tie-in that keeps music bought from the iTunes Store from playing on MP3 players other than the iPod was unreasonable. '"Do you find it reasonable that a CD will play in all CD players, but an iTunes song will only play on an iPod?" asked Kuneva. "It doesn't to me. Something must change."' The EU is in the midst of an effort to harmonize its consumer protection laws, and long with the question of DRM tie-ins, it is also looking at mandating "cooling-off" periods whereby customers could "return" downloaded music.
Submission + - Microsoft Quietly Releases Windows 2003 SP 2
Misterfred22 writes: Microsoft quietly released 32-bit Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 today for download. You can download it here. Be sure to read the very long list of fixes, too. The 64-bit edition is still showing as a release canidate on their site.
Submission + - Gentoo Not Good for Servers?
Siker writes: "I firmly believe in updating server software only when you need to. If you don't need new features, and things are working, why change anything? If you update anything you will doubtlessly need to update configuration files. You will need to fix things that break in the upgrade process. [...] This is hard with Gentoo. Gentoo wants you to change a lot of stuff. It wants to be bleeding edge.
My blog post caused a bit of a stir with lots of passionate comments and even its own thread on the Gentoo forums."
My blog post caused a bit of a stir with lots of passionate comments and even its own thread on the Gentoo forums."
Submission + - Koreans advised to "avoid Vista" for now
An anonymous reader writes: The Chosonilbo reports that several government ministries in South Korea are advising users not to install Windows Vista, at least until popular online services can be made compatible. The problem is that ActiveX is pervasive in the Korean webspace, employed by everyone from web games to online banking. Upgrading to Vista is expected to render many of these services unusable. Portions of the popular "Hangul" word processor, a major competitor to Office in that country, are also not functioning under Vista. The Ministry of Information is planning to publish compatibility information for popular websites, and urging users to carefully research the implications of upgrading.
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