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Court Deals RIAA Setback in File Sharing Suit

A U.S. District Judge denied a request by the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) for a summary judgment against an Arizona couple accused of illegally sharing music files through the Kazaa peer-to-peer file sharing service. RIAA asserted the presence of the music files in a shared folder constitutes copyright infringement. The defendant, Jeffery Howell, claims he did not place the music in the shared folder but that it was automatically put there by the system. The judge denied the motion on the grounds that it was unclear whether Howell had put the files in a shared folder and said that, even if he had, making files available does not meet the requirements for copyright infringement or distribution. MedaiaSentry, an agent hired by the RIAA, was able to see the files in the shared folder, but unless someone does actually download the co

MediaDefender's Denial Of Service Attack On Revision3

Lots of you are probably familiar with MediaDefender. They've been around for many years (we first mentioned them back in 2000) with the business proposition of basically helping big entertainment companies disrupt any sort of unauthorized file sharing. In the early days, that just meant putting up spoof files to annoy people. But it's become a lot more sophisticated since then -- including tricking people into downloading spoof files with malware that actually scans your computer for infringing files. Then, of course, there was the infamous attempt to create an entire fake honeypot file sharing system to try to catch people for unauthorized file sharing. The company has also been accused of a variety of different denial of service attacks against sites it believes are promoting file sharing.

Would You Believe Copyright Infringement Notices Are Based On Faulty Information?

This has been pointed out before, but never by an academic study: it turns out that many of the infringement notices that get sent by the big entertainment companies are based on incorrect information, often accusing perfectly legitimate content of being infringing. The study, by some professors at the University of Washington, proved that the notices are sent, rather haphazardly based on whether or not an IP address participates on a file sharing network -- and not whether or not it actually uploads or downloads any content. Specifically, these researchers set about to monitor file sharing networks themselves, and introduced a software agent that watched over what was happening -- but which did not actively upload or download anything itself.

Swedish court sentences man for illegal file-sharing

Stockholm - A Swedish district court Monday convicted a man of illegal file-sharing and fined him for violating copyright laws. The man, 31, was charged with distributing some 30 films and over 4,500 music files on the internet and sentenced to a 10,000 kronor fine (1,600 dollars) based on his income, and to pay legal costs.

Music fans get the message on illegal file-sharing

Seven out of 10 (68%) UK consumers now recognise that using unauthorized music file-sharing networks such as Kazaa is illegal, up six percentage points in the last six months.

Transtec Computers Limited: transtec NAS File Servers Now for Linux; Storage systems with Open-E DSS software enable file sharing and network access with high availability

TMCNet: Transtec Computers Limited: transtec NAS File Servers Now for Linux; Storage systems with Open-E DSS software enable file sharing and network access with high availability

Anatomy of Linux Journaling File System

In recent history, journaling file systems were viewed as an oddity and thought of primarily in terms of research. But today, a journaling file system (ext3) is the default in Linux®. Discover the ideas behind journaling file systems, and learn how they provide better integrity in the face of a power failure or system crash. Learn about the various journaling file systems in use today, and peek into the next generation of journaling file systems.

MediaDefender Makes Both Legal and Illegal Downloads Available - Approaching the piracy issue from both ends makes things confusing

MediaDefender is an anti-piracy business that is known primarily because it’s hired by organizations like RIAA and MPAA to put illegal downloads online in order to trap people who are engaged in illegal filesharing. However, that’s not all that MediaDefender is about. They’re also in the business of offering legal P2P downloads. They’ve done this for awhile (they paired up with Sprint and Atlantic Records last year to offer branded P2P song downloads) but they appear to be getting more aggressive in moving forward with this part of the business. Perhaps that’s because their recent efforts at anti-piracy have taken down legitimate sites and placed them in a lot of hot water. Still, you have to wonder, how is a user supposed to know if a file placed online by MediaDefender is legal or illegal to download?

ISPs may be forced to regulate illegal music and film downloads

The Government has repeated its threat to introduce laws to force internet service providers (ISPs) to control illegal music and film sharing.

ISPs may be forced to regulate illegal music and film downloads

The Government has repeated its threat to introduce laws to force internet service providers (ISPs) to control illegal music and film sharing.

Advice On File Sharing For a Swedish MP?

theper writes "A little over a week from now, I have a dinner planned with an old friend and a member of the Swedish parliament. I know a thing or two about the internet, piracy and file sharing, and she's asked for my advice on new legislation on that subject. Her (and her party's) stance is not very controversial: Rights holders must get paid one way or another, and at the same time record companies has to change their old business models and must do more to keep up with technology. With this kept in mind, what advice should I give her?"

HP donating file system to Linux - Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS)

HP on Monday is announcing the contribution of its Tru64 Unix Advanced File System (AdvFS) source code to the Linux community, offering capabilities in uptime, security, and improved performance of Linux file systems, the company said. AdvFS will be donated as a reference implementation of an enterprise Linux file system. Code will be made available under the General Public License Version 2 for compatibility with the Linux kernel, HP said.

UK government renews threat to force ISPs to tackle illegal file sharing

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Sonic Focus: Digital music is just "good enough"

When one puts an iPod into a home theater system it's easy to hear the degradation in a digital audio file due to file compression when compared to a compact disc (CD) when the system is powered by a decent amplifier and a 7.1 speaker set. In some cases, a decent speaker might even highlight the noises that are caused by file compression. This is not a matter of how the digital music file is played, but how the file is being stored, or, being compressed. When consumers enjoy the high portability of their beloved music in a wide array of consumer electronic products, they are scarifying the "life" of music also. Driven by attempts to restore compressed digital music with vitality, Sonic Focus, a digital audio enhancement solution provider, which was recently merged by intellectual property (IP) and multimedia subsystem company ARC Internat

University Makes Students Take Copyright Quiz To Get Timed Access To P2P

Broadband Reports points us to a rather unique attempt by Missouri University of Science & Technology to deal with the fact that the RIAA/MPAA are upset with students at the university for using file sharing apps. It's using traffic shaping apps to block access to P2P systems... but, it will give students timed access if they first successfully complete a quiz about copyright issues. You need to get a perfect score (or no BitTorrent for you!) and you get six hours, which they hope you're now using for legal file sharing (though, they don't check). If you want more time, you need to ace the quiz again (the questions change). You can get up to 8 "passes" per month.

Anatomy of Linux Journaling File System

IconJournaling file systems used to be an oddity primarily for research purposes, but today it's the default in Linux. Discover the ideas behind journaling file systems, and learn how they provide better integrity in the face of a power failure or system crash. Learn about the various journaling file systems in use today, and peek into the next generation of journaling file systems.

Anatomy of Linux Journaling File Systems

LinucksGirl writes "Journaling file systems used to be an oddity primarily for research purposes, but today it's the default in Linux. Discover the ideas behind journaling file systems, and learn how they provide better integrity in the face of a power failure or system crash. Learn about the various journaling file systems in use today, and peek into the next generation of journaling file systems."

McAfee Identifies Largest Trojan File in Three Years

Almost 500,000 people have been caught out by a booby-trapped media file, says security firm McAfee. The fake file poses as a music track, short video or movie and has been widely seeded on file-sharing networks to snare victims.

F/OSS Flat-File Database?

Leemeng writes "I'm looking for a simple, free, and F/OSS flat-file database program. I'm storing info about Wi-Fi access points that I come across, maybe 8-9 fields per entry. I've outgrown Notepad. This info is for my own reference only; it is not going on a Web server. Googling was unhelpful, with results skewed towards SQL, Access (MS), and Oracle, all of which would be overkill for my purposes. My criteria are: it must be simple, F/OSS, must work in Windows Vista, preferably use a portable format, must not be an online app, and must not require Java. Does such a beast exist?"

iPhone 3G cost could be as low as $100, but not likely

Does the iPhone 3G only cost $100 to make? Not on your life. Several sites have cited an article from EETimes, which in turn cites Portelligent, an Austin-based "teardown" analysis company that believes the iPhone 3G has a bill of materials around $100. Portelligent arrives at this conclusion based on a teardown of the original iPhone plus some speculation of what chips and components are included in the latest iPhone hardware, not on an actual teardown of the iPhone 3G. However, the mere cost of the materials used, even when accurate, is still not a good indicator of the cost to produce any manufactured device—especially not one as complex as an iPhone.

Labels Sue Spanish File-Sharing Sites Blubster, Piolet & Omemo

Madrid - The major record labels' units in Spain announced on Thursday that they have filed a $20 million copyright infringement claim in the country against Pablo Soto Bravo, the founder of MP2P Technologies -- which operates file-sharing sites including Piolet, Omemo and Blubster. In their complaint, the units of EMI, Sony (NYSE: SNE) BMG, Universal Music and Warner Music (NYSE: WMG) -- represented in Spain by industry trade group Promusicae -- allege that Pablo Soto obtained profits from the sites both via paid advertising, and subscription plans.

BT to cut off file-sharing customers

BT has become the latest ISP to join forced with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in a bid to get tough with illegal file-sharers, announcing plans to cut off customers who use their accounts to illegally download software from P2P networks.

RIAA reveals how it tracks college file sharing

A painstaking examination of how the RIAA goes about its business hunting down file sharers on college campuses is available online.

RIAA reveals how it tracks college file sharing

Techzonez A painstaking examination of how the RIAA goes about its business hunting down file sharers on college campuses is available online.

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