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WSJ Confirms RIAA Fired MediaSentry 158

Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 04, 2009 @11:23PM from the meet-the-new-boss dept.

newtley writes "Two days ago we discussed the earlier p2pnet report that the RIAA had fired MediaSentry (now called SafeNet). Now the Wall Street Journal is confirming this report. MediaSentry has been 'invading the privacy of people,' the WSJ quotes Ray Beckerman; 'They've been doing very sloppy work.' Beckerman cites MediaSentry's practice of 'looking for available songs in people's filesharing folders, uploading them, and using those uploads in court as evidence of copyright violations.' MediaSentry 'couldn't prove defendants had shared their files with anyone other than MediaSentry investigators.' The WSJ notes, 'In place of MediaSentry, the RIAA says it will use Copenhagen-based DtecNet Software ApS. The music industry had worked with DtecNet previously both in the US and overseas, and liked its technology...' "

Comment Re:I've got a unique vein for them... (Score 5, Informative) 152

by conchur on Thursday November 13, 2008 @07:49AM (#25744973) Attached to: Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints

FTA:

The gruesome possibility that criminals may hack off a finger has already been discounted by Hitachi's scientists. Asked if authentication could be "forged" with a severed finger, the company says: "As blood would flow out of a disconnected finger, authentication would no longer be possible."

I must admit that was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline...

Comment Re:How about using it as a "username"? (Score 5, Funny) 152

by conchur on Thursday November 13, 2008 @07:17AM (#25744991) Attached to: Vein Patterns Could Replace Fingerprints

"authentify" - Does that mean simultaneous identification and authentication? Does "indentificate" mean the same thing?

Judge Tells RIAA To Stop 'Bankrupting' Litigants 332

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday October 28, 2008 @04:50PM from the also-bake-them-cookies dept.

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Boston judge who has consolidated all of the RIAA's Massachusetts cases into a single case over which she has been presiding for the past 5 years delivered something of a rebuke to the RIAA's lawyers, we have learned. At a conference this past June, the transcript of which (PDF) has just been released, Judge Nancy Gertner said to them that they 'have an ethical obligation to fully understand that they are fighting people without lawyers ... to understand that the formalities of this are basically bankrupting people, and it's terribly critical that you stop it ...' She also acknowledged that 'there is a huge imbalance in these cases. The record companies are represented by large law firms with substantial resources,' while it is futile for self-represented defendants to resist. The judge did not seem to acknowledge any responsibility on her part, however, for having created the 'imbalance,' and also stated that the law is 'overwhelmingly on the side of the record companies,' even though she seems to recognize that for the past 5 years she has been hearing only one side of the legal story."

CERTStation Threat-Level Aggregator 69

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 28, 2006 @10:04AM from the if-you-don't-like-the-weather-wait-a-minute dept.

sloit writes "Just spotted, the CERTStation Threat level Aggregator displays the current threat level, in real-time, as assessed by 8 of the Internet's leading vulnerability watch services such as Symantec Threatcon, ISS Alertcon and SANS Infocon on one publically accessible Web page. Well, that saves a lot of daily trudging!"

State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry 761

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday September 03, 2006 @09:44PM from the just-in-case-you-want-to-ruin-someone dept.

I*Love*Green*Olives writes to tell us the Toledo Blade is reporting that State officials have rubber-stamped a "civil-registry" that would allow accused sex offenders to be tracked with the sex offender registry even if they have never been convicted of a crime. From the article: "A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit. The rules spell out how the untried process would work. It would largely treat a person placed on the civil registry the same way a convicted sex offender is treated under Ohio's so-called Megan's Law."

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