The movie industry is training its legal guns on the Gnutella file-sharing system in its latest efforts to combat piracy. Excite@Home is threatening to cut services for those who share movies.
An anti-piracy company has begun shining a light on people trading music files through the Aimster file-swapping network, a Napster-like service that promises privacy features that theoretically place it beyond the reach of copyright police.
A US federal appeals court panel on has heard arguments and responded with numerous questions about a far-reaching case over the rights of online publishers to link to controversial material.
Anti-piracy features making their way onto CDs promise to dramatically alter the online music landscape.
The new millennium was the year Microsoft was ordered to bifurcate, dot-coms tanked on Wall Street, WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers saw his merger mania capped and Napster scared the recording industry nearly to death. 2000 was a cascading waterfall of events that ended any doubts about the Net's ability to change the way we think, learn, play and do business.
Whether YouTube suffers the same fate as Napster may depend on the wording of a nearly antique law written long before video-sharing Web sites were envisioned.
A Web consultant is targetting fans who are downloading Dr. Dre's music as the rap artist prepares to deliver a list of those who've traded his music. Meanwhile, banned Metallica fans find a way back in to Napster.
For millions of file-swapping teens, the Napster case is about continued access to free music. For the record companies, the ability to control the distribution of copyrighted content is at stake.
Companies face a host of legal land mines that they need to consider when developing emerging technology, attorneys at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference told developers Tuesday.
Code-crackers risk fines and prison time when they defeat copy-protection technology, but such draconian rules likely don't apply in the case of RealNetworks and its iPod "hack," legal experts said.
A jury on Tuesday acquitted a Russian software company of criminal copyright charges related to selling a program that can crack antipiracy protections on electronic books.
An ambiguity in a 1998 copyright law, has placed Internet service providers at loggerheads with copyright owners over the extent to which they must police their subscribers' peer-to-peer file-sharing activities.
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As traditional entertainment distributors line up against telcos in court, lawsuits lasting less than a week could jeopardize the stability and freedom of cyberspace.
A music industry group is seeking to block publication of research that describes anti-piracy technology known as watermarking, saying a report stemming from an industry-backed hacking challenge violates digital copyright law.
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