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15 October 2002
Filed under:Copyright,problems with technology at12:36 am

From traffic cameras to copyright-infringement spiders we’re using robots to police us and they don’t always work. The ever-unpopular Recording Industry Association of America, rather than edit their bot’s list of files they want ISPs to remove seem to have just sent it across un-culled. As a result, files like “harry potter book report.rtf” (1k in size) are flagged as copyright infringement.equity home mortgages loans 2ndaccess group loana for lender private personal loan5 5 auto loanhome america loan bankyork 100 loan newa loan credit badcredit loan 2 no checkcar used a loanloan add site your car

13 October 2002
Filed under:Copyright at4:48 pm

According to news.com , “the new Kazaa allows searches by “playlist,” letting groups of songs be downloaded as a single item. The company touts this as a way for people to share diverse lists of songs by different artists, while warning against trading copyrighted works. In reality, this new option provides a new, simple way to download albums all at once instead of song by song.”

Likewise, “Kazaa’s new software allows people to rate files so that corrupt or false files will quickly collect ratings poor enough to warn people away from downloading them. It also comes with a setting called “filter bogus music and video files” that is set by default as active. ”

Of course most bogus files will be put there by copyright owners who want to frustrate people trying to pirate their music.

16 July 2002
Filed under:Copyright at6:30 pm

Janis Ian has written a lengthy but interesting defence of MP3 sharing (saying, amongst other things, it helps smaller artists get exposure) and attack on the music industry.

It’s true that the music industry does not seem interested in using the Internet effectively as a promotional tool or to cut out the cost of distribution. But it is also true that 1) it is hard for the industry to figure out how to “cut the cake” of earnings in this new business environment, so “official” music sharing software tends to be experimental and offer only fragmentary access. And unfortunately 2) a widespread and well-marketed move to paid-for music downloading even at low cost might not stand much chance of success if a parallel system of easy to use totally free music download software exists alongside it. Some say that this would not be a problem, but if I was a music executive I would not be much interested in betting my company on it!

(Thanks to Harald for the link)

4 July 2002

The BBC reports, “Californian congressman Howard Berman has drawn up a bill that would legalise the disruption of peer-to-peer networks by companies who are trying to stop people pirating copyrighted materials…”

…”The law would also allow the record companies to place programs on the machines of peer-to-peer networks to let them trace who is pirating pop.”

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4 May 2002

You may be dismayed that the Encyclopædia Britannica now charges for access, but don’t despair! Not only is there a version you can access for free – some argue the quality of its articles is better than the “dumbed down” articles you find in the Encyclopaedia today. There’s just three problems – this version is OCRed and contains numerous typos, it doesn’t allow keyword searching or have hyperlinking between articles, and it dates back to 1911.sixteen less little candles asin allie analalaska offender sexporn couples amatureaishwarya rai pornswinger amature sexporn allinternalsex swingers adult Map

29 May 2001
Filed under:Copyright,Humour & Entertainment at5:14 pm

Mathematician humour: “WARNING: Do NOT calculate Pi in binary. It is conjectured that this number is normal, meaning that it contains ALL finite bit strings…

“If you compute it, you will be guilty of:

* Copyright infringement (of all books, all short stories, all
newspapers, all magazines, all web sites, all music, all movies,
and all software, including the complete Windows source code)

* Possession of everyone’s SSN, everyone’s credit card numbers,
everyone’s PIN numbers, everyone’s unlisted phone numbers, and
everyone’s passwords

Also, your computer will contain all of the nastiest known computer
viruses. In fact, all of the nastiest POSSIBLE computer viruses.”

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