Tag Archives: Sci/Tech

Following up on the case we mentioned yesterday, a Maryland court ruled a notorious spammer may remain outed: An Internet site that provides personal information about an alleged purveyor of mass e-mail is not harassment and does not need to be removed, a Maryland district court judge ruled yesterday. Francis …

Billboard relates Pat DiNizio’s subscription plan: New Jersey-based artist Pat DiNizio, lead singer/songwriter of the Smithereens, has founded Patrons & Artists Together, a boutique entertainment partnership meant to fund his recording and touring projects and reward participants with a unique music experience, as well as provide free music via the …

Nice overview of Napster history – did it really happen? – in LA Times excerpt from new book All the Rave: The Rise and Fall of Shawn Fanning’s Napster by Joseph Menn: It all began with a poor Boston-area kid who came west to Silicon Valley and started a revolution. …

We have written about the multi-billion dollar lawsuit the RIAA just filed against four college students – copyright activist and Stanford professor Lawrence Lessig weighs in on the situation: They say I’m a pessimist about the future of freedom on the net, and they’ve got two books of mine to …

Spam scum George Allen Moore Jr., “Dr. Fatburn,” didn’t like being outed by angry geek and went to court: Francis Uy, a self-described computer geek from Ellicott City, decided to fight back by employing a tactic increasingly used by a small cadre of e-mail users fed up with spam: Outing …

They’ve been talking about this for 20 years, but now real time translation is “good enough“: Most Americans likely have difficulty understanding the broadcasts of Al Jazeera, the Arab news network, but several government agencies now can watch it while simultaneously receiving an English translation of the programming. Virage Inc., …

Declan McCullagh on the Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference: At the 13th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy (CFP) conference, attendees fretted about shrinking privacy, growing online censorship, and their reduced ability to make “fair use” of music, video and software girded with anticopying technologies. Events included panels with titles …

Additional wireless access in Manhattan parks: downtown business improvement district is planning to establish free high-speed wireless Internet access in six parks and public spaces in Lower Manhattan next month, significantly expanding the availability downtown of wireless connections to the Internet. Officials of the Alliance for Downtown New York, the …

The RIAA is doing itself a grave disservice by calling public attention to its battle against file sharing: by employing increasingly aggressive tactics against sharers they run the risk of inflaming the public at large against them, which may force politicians – heretofore largely in the industry’s pocket – to …

New tentative deal between RIAA and webcasting reps (Digital Media Association) on webcasting royalties: SUMMARY OF DiMA-SOUNDEXCHANGE PROPOSAL FOR INTERNET RADIO ROYALTY RATES & TERMS Scope: Covers digital audio transmissions of sound recordings by commercial webcasters (“eligible nonsubscription transmission services”) and subscription services (“new subscription services”), subject to the statutory …