The European Commission dealing with the issue of file trading presented a draft of a proposed directive last week. Looking to find a balance between copyright holder's right to control the content they own and the fair use rights of consumers the most distinct aspect of the directive is that it lets file traders off the hook for criminal liability when they trade.
Thomas Mennecke of Slyck and MP3newswire.net notoriety has posted this interview on both sites with Frontcode Technologies President Kevin Hearn about the future of WinMX . Overall a number of refinements due for the coming year including URL linking and a new network protocol.
What caught my eye when I first read about the record industry's attempt
to ID and prosecute a KaZaa user for trading music files is how average he or she seems to be. The profile that Declan McCullagh offers on the individual in his article "RIAA wins battle to ID Kazaa user" is quite sparse, and yet is still telling.
Hilary Rosen, the U.S. recording industry's head lobbyist who waged a high-profile battle against Napster and music piracy, is resigning at the end of the year.
Check it all out here.
KaZaA Lite has always been a popular force in the FastTrack community. However, its presence has been somewhat troublesome for Sharman Networks, the spearhead of this enormous network.
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the brainchild of the Big Five American record labels and enacted to serve them, the movie studios and book publishers, will be radically amended to protect users if US representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA), John Doolittle (R-CA), Spencer Bachus (R-AL) and Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) have their way.
Source: RT NEWS
Claims that the music industry hired a group of hackers to create a worm to infect peer-to-peer networks are being dismissed by security experts.
The first of a two part year in review, MP3 Newswire is running their annual winners list in digital media. Part two covers the year's losers and will be out next.
Source: The Register
According to an official statement issued by the Recording Industry Association of America today, "I wish I were an Oscar Meyer Weiner … do you eat cheese?"
Which is pretty bizarre even by the standards set by the RIAA's recent communications.
