That single mother who got sued by the Recortind Industry Association of America has won the battle, getting a rather large payout in the process. Though the RIAA won a few high-profile cases, it looks like the courts are souring on the whole sue-your-customers approach to...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 139 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
OSX.Leap.A: This is the first Mac OSX trojan that I've heard of in the wild, though Symantec rates it as low-risk. This is a step beyond proof-of-concept, though it can't really do anything without direct user...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 364 views | 9 recommendations | 5 comments
Limewire, that peer-to-peer MP3 freemarket that served as a RIAA dartboard, has launched an online music store in beta. The architecture of such a store would have to be quite different from the spam-infused...
created by Jordan Yerman | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 162 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Ohio U. is pre-empting the pre-lawsuits that are spamming up university inboxes across the nation."While some universities have fought back against RIAA complaints about their students using file sharing for making unauthorized copies of content, it appears that Ohio...
Wow. The attached article is about a life ruined by file-sharing. But it's not a recording-industry mogul who's out of pocket, but a professional media pirate. Perhaps the MPAA, RIAA and other media-industry...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 513 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Anyone who follows the slate of lawsuits against music fans is
cognizant of the crucial role that IP addresses play in attempts to cow
suspected file sharers. But as we have seen time and time again, IP
addresses...
created by talexander | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 797 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments