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French Record Labels Go After Limewire, SourceForge

An anonymous reader notes that TorrentFreak is reporting: "French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." SourceForge is Slashdot's corporate parent.

SourceForge heats up first quarter web sales by 13%

SourceForge Inc., parent of toy, game and novelty product retailer ThinkGeek Inc., reported e-commerce revenue of $6.7 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2009, up by about 13% from $5.9 million in the same quarter of FY 2008.

P2P, SourceForge Developers to be Sued by French Record Labels

TorrentFreak reports that several French Record Labels are planning to sue the developers of SourceForge and P2P clients Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. They claim that the software facilitates “mass copyright infringement.” As if RIAA wasn’t a pain enough, now we have the French equivalent spoiling for a fight too.

French RIAA Sues SourceForge For Aiding And Abetting Piracy?

Yes, this sounds every bit as ridiculous to me as it probably does you. The Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France, or SPPF -- France's analogue to the RIAA -- is preparing to file suit not only against the makers of various P2P sharing apps, but SourceForge.net, which provides code hosting for many such projects. All together, now, in your best Stupefied Bill Maher Voice: What!?

French RIAA Vs. SourceForge, Take Two

Last month the French RIAA, the SPPF, declared that it was bringing suit against SourceForge for aiding and abetting peer-to-peer piracy. It sounded ludicrous, and now there's better evidence to show it is indeed every bit as stupid as it sounded.

French Recording Industry Sues SourceForge For Hosting Open Source P2P

It would appear that Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France (SPPF), a group that represents French record labels, is now trying to sue a bunch of non-French file sharing applications, as well as SourceForge. This brings up a lot of different issues, so let's break them out one by one.

Bash Cable, Dish and Local TV Listings Script For Linux Or Unix

I'm beginning to think that this script should be put on my SourceForge page and maintained there. It's not that I mind doing these weekly updates, but I feel like I'm writing the same thing over and over again, where I could be offering you, the reader, more value by producing different scripts in its place. If you have a few seconds, please answer the short poll on the right hand side of the blog. If public opinion wants this project worked out on the blog, then so be it. If you're all getting sick of these updates, I can move this to my SourceForge page, as a project, and produce more original content for our Monday script posts.

ERP, the Open Way: Hugo Rivero Weblog

Hugo Rivero's weblog, entitled ERP, The Open Way celebrates the ease with which he was able to download and install Openbravo ERP, a Java-based open source solution that is among the most active projects on sourceforge and that has won the praise of both Infoworld and LinuxWorld.

Index XML Documents with VTD-XML

Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. VTD-XML 2.0 introduces a simple general-purpose XML index called VTD+XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/persistence.html) that eliminates the need for repetitive parsing of those applications.

The open source community has cast its vote

Things seem particularly contentious this election year, and everyone can only really agree on one thing: there’s an awful lot at stake. Are you nervous? We are too. To settle the debate, we polled over 250 random SourceForge.net and Slashdot users on a wide range of political issues…because, after all, you guys are not known for mincing your words. We figured that if anyone can get to the bottom of this, you can.

Index XML Documents with VTD-XML

Traditionally DOM or SAX-based enterprise applications have to repeat CPU-intensive XML parsing when accessing the same documents multiple times. VTD-XML 2.0 introduces a simple general-purpose XML index called VTD+XML (http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/persistence.html) that eliminates the need for repetitive parsing of those applications.

How Long Should an Open Source Project Support Users?

Ubuntu Kitten writes "Since October the community-generated database of cards known to work with Ndiswrapper has been down. This is apparently due to an on-going site redesign, but right now the usual URL simply directs to a stock Sourceforge page. Without the database, the software's usability is severely diminished but this raises an interesting question: Is an open source project obliged to provide support for its users? If so, for how long should the support last? Web servers cost money, especially for popular sites. While developers can sometimes find sponsorship, is it possible to get sponsorship simply for infrastructure and user services?"

How Long Should Open Source Project Support Users?

Ubuntu Kitten writes "Since October the community-generated database of cards known to work with Ndiswrapper has been down. This is apparently due to an on-going site redesign, but right now the usual URL simply directs to a stock Sourceforge page. Without the database, the software's usability is severely diminished but this raises an interesting question: Is an open source project obliged to provide support for its users? If so, for how long should the support last? Web servers cost money, especially for popular sites. While developers can sometimes find sponsorship, is it possible to get sponsorship simply for infrastructure and user services?"

Record Labels to sue SorceForge, Limewire, Vuze, Morpheus

The Société civile des Producteurs de Phonogrammes en France, or the SPPF, have been given the go-ahead to sue four US companies for developing P2P applications with the intention of distributing illegal content, TorrentFreak reports. The four applications in question are Vuze, Limewire, Mopheus and Shareaza. Shareaza is hosted by the open source development platform SourceForge, so the SPPF have decided to sue SorceForge for being responsible for the distribution of the application. According to recent French legislation, all P2P software must have a built-in feature to block the transfer of unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works.

Business.com Releases Open Source Query Tool

Santa Monica-based business search engine and directory firm Business.com said Friday that it has launched a new, open source software application focused on data warehousing. The unusual move--Business.com is best known for its aggregated business search listings and information, rather than software--makes technology internally developed for the firm available to any developer. According to Business.com, the new software--"CloudBase"--is a spinout of technology developed for the firm internally for web log analysis. The firm said that the tool can be used by business analysts to query large-scale log files from web sites, telecommunications, or IT applications using SQL queries, without requiring use of a relational database. The software is available for free from the Sourceforge.

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