Central District Court Magistrate of Los Angeles Charles F. Eick has ordered SonicBlue to spy on its ReplayTV users, invading their privacy by supplying all available information pertaining to how consumers use the appliance. Required to monitor every show recorded by every user, this information is to be turned directly over to the film and television industries.
Radio streams will go silent Wednesday May 1st to protest the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel's (CARP) idea of fair royalty fees for the young webcasting industry. The problem with these fees is that it will put out of business all US Net radio streams that do not have deep pocketed corporations behind them to front the expenses.
L33tdawg: Hmmmz -- it's 7:53pm on the 1st where I'm at, and most of the radio streams that I listen to are still going. Anyone find a silent stream yet?
Source: CNN.com
Four years ago the record industry and some technology companies banded together to match wits in a combined effort to stamp out Internet music piracy.
Their goal: to usher in an age of secure digital songs wrapped in unbreakable code.
The Secure Digital Music Initiative was supposed to be just the medicine to marginalize the Napster phenomenon. Soon, there would be SDMI protected CDs and SDMI digital music downloads playing only on SDMI-compliant devices.
Source: CNN.com
Vivendi Universal will launch legal action on Monday against suspected hackers who allegedly interfered with votes at the company's annual shareholders' meeting last week.
The world's second-largest media company said its board would also meet on Monday to call for a new shareholders' meeting for early June. That would give shareholders another opportunity to vote on issues that were voted down.
Team Xolox posted the official news on their website:
For those who don't want to spend time ripping all the Spyware/Adware junk from KaZaa, a parasite-free version of the program called KaZaA lite 1.6.0 Final is available.
The recent Dutch court decision that ruled Kazaa is not responsible for the illegal actions of people using its software has had a positive effect already. Xolox, one of the simplest and best P2P programs that shut down last year due to litigation fears, is coming back.
Source: Wired.com
Jean-Olivier Lanctôt-David is a 14-year-old hacker who has figured out a way to display online news headlines on Apple's iPod digital music player.
Lanctôt-David, who has been using Macs since he was 4 and programming since he was 11, was given an iPod for Christmas and immediately wanted to make it do more than just play music.
So he whipped up PodNews, a program that fetches headlines from the Web in XML format and displays them on the iPod's small screen.
Source: Wired
Who but a jewelry designer could create a computer product that seems useless but is fast becoming a hit based on its good looks?
Takahiko Suzuki, a jewelry designer from the industrial city of Nagano, Japan, designed the PowerMate, a volume control for computers.
The PowerMate is being sold by Nashville, Tennessee-based Griffin Technology and costs about $40, which sounds like a lot for a simple volume control.
