Updated 5/10/2004
JT's Technology Watch
What's happening in the world of Technology.
        

Saturday, August 2, 2003


The file swapping heyday may be coming to a close. From my perspective, the best rule of thumb: if it's questionable ("grey area") don't do it.
An MTV.com article reports that the RIAA has obtained over 800 subpoenas [in June], with roughly 75 new subpoenas being approved each day. The list includes users who have shared as little as eight songs.

News Coverage


Congress proposed a new bill that would land a person in prison for five years and impose a fine of $250,000 for uploading a single file to peer-to-peer networks like KaZaA. The bill was introduced by Reps. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) and Howard Berman (D-Calif.). As if the RIAA's attacks on file-swappers weren't enough.

Another bill was proposed last year which would protect copyright holders from liability if they impaired or disrupted the unauthorized distribution of their content on P2P networks. That bill is still being debated.

Other articles

New Bill Seeks Prison Time for File Swappers (Internet.com), Congress mulls prison terms for KaZaA users (Register.com)


These references were found at nembis.com

Also, in Wired: "Spanish Firms Target File Traders"

Photo source: CNN, "File-swapping 'Madster' must track songs"




 
August 2003
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
          1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
31            
Jul   Jan


Technology Index






Click here to send an email to the editor of this weblog.


 

Find:




h o t z a z # 1




Technology Index

GarageBand - Make Your Own Music, Play Your Favorite Instruments: Apple iLife for Macintosh


JANUARY

Apple G5 Supercomputer - World's Most Powerful University Supercomputer


AUGUST 2003

Clive Barnes on Television

Supercomputing - The Grid: The Next Web Revolution

File Swappers Beware - Legislation & Legal Action

Blogs: Talk Radio for the Wired -- Blogs' Shake the Political Discourse


JULY 2003

Windows Viruses and Spam

Apple G4 Cube - Alive and Selling

Napster Version 2.0 -- Napster Comes Back To Life

Patents: Rewarding Innovation

Hackers Defacement Challenge: a Hoax

Technology Meets the Mob

PC Viruses 625 Times More Likely than on Macs

Holland's 1000 Foot Blogger

Scientists pick the G5

A.C. Clark - Advanced Technology

[Hoax] Hackers Offered Most Points to Hack a Mac

Laptop Sales Beat Desktops For The First Time

New 'TV's': Project into 'Thin Air'


JUNE 2003

World's Fastest Personal Computer

"Video-Phone's" Time Has Come -- Video Conferencing Made Easy

Net Identity -- Feature-Rich Email and Web Services

64 Bit Macs & Mac OS X

Best of The Web

Weblog-O-Rama, Hi Profile Bloggers, & David Winer

Cebuano Anyone? Translation On-The-Fly: Hindi to English

100% Up-Time DNS

What's a Blog? (Part I)

U.S. Computer Coach

Moving to India

The Land of Blog -- Sudden Impact

Dot Pro - Confidential Quid Pro Quo



 

zazoodles
Everything You're Looking For ...
     @ 4oodles.com

Arts
Business
Computers
Games
Health
Home
Kids_and_Teens
News
Recreation
Reference
Regional
Science
Shopping
Society
Sports
World


Search:



 

Links

zaz.com
encyclopedia.to





Top Search Results

"File Swappers Beware - Legislation & Legal Action - Zaz News"

ZazNews on
Google

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.


Top

© Copyright 2004 Kevin JT Binder, kevinbinder.net