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No grandparent poster is right. No one wants to use a computer to serve video from an iPod to a TV. Too many components. These small cables are much easier.

On the other side I doubt this is what apple wants people to use the iPod for. P2PNet has a good post listing why this isn't what you think. Apple knows a video iPod would get hacked to play nearly anything (though any mpeg4 video like xvid/divx is probably too cpu intensive to work) to play on it. This functionality will be for crap quality .mov music videos.

The quality will be crap so that no one feeds it to a TV, so you don't need a fast processesor to run it, and so file downloads and transfers to iPod don't take forever. Uploading higher resolution video won't play, not because of codecs, but because there won't be enough cpu cycles.

Continuing the DRM happy news, Microsoft wants to end hardware copyright circumvention with Longhorn. This scheme would require new monitors, and entirely different hardware requirements.

Best case scenario: this is great because it will this be a nail in the coffin for widespread Longhorn adoption. Thus companies like Dell may sell computers equipped with Linux to avoid higher hardware fees. I wrote about this while back.

Worst case scenario: this is a brick wall for Linux drivers. Linux will be reduced to working only on specialty or old hardware.

No one wants to buy into a crippled system and consumers are getting more savvy to these type of things. I hear enough complaints about the regional encoding in DVDs and players and the market found a way aroud that (region 0).

Sadly, while people are too lazy to vote/voice against things like DMCA, they still vote with their dollars.

iTunes is an example of a system that provides assurance to the music industry while being flexible enough for consumers to use - like being able to share music with friends.

Napster on the other hand is a more inflexible model and also seems like a traitor in some respects:
http://p2pnet.net/story/5521

The thing also with HD DVDs is that right now the DVD is an entrenched market that's good enough for most people. Most people don't even own the right TVs to make use of the enhanced resolution. So what is the incentive to move away from DVDs? Hell, VCR's had good enough resolution but the killer was the ability to go anywhere in the movie like a CD (and the smaller size of discs).

If people percieve that HD DVD's or PAIDFOR online downloads are severely restricted, what incentive do they have to move away from DVD?

Resolution they can't take advantage of/notice in most cases? 1 hour wait times until the hour long FBI warning goes away because it stops all those pirates? Compulsory previews?

Well,

Both threads about me were brought to my attention and I have to say (despite the minority difference of opinion) my faith in people has been even more re-inforced by these threads.

Aside from the fact that I am a geek and thus being /.'d is a great honour (let alone being /.'d twice) my fight is one about the fact that my human rights were blatantly abused by firing me for my opinion.

Article 9 and Article 10 of the European Human Rights Act state that all individuals are entitled to and opinion and they are also entitled to impart that opinion (which is exactly what I did with my interview with the BBC). Furthermore, the employment law of this country specifically states the same (in fact it is one of the very few scenarios where you do not have to have worked for a company for 12 months in order to protect your employment rights).

I am a socially concerned person and have fought against social issues all my life, from running a charity for abused children, doing research and working with law enforcement around the world tracking down pedophiles and child porn traffickers. I have also had to have corrective surgery to my face after being assaulted for spearheading a campaign against low pay and exploitation of students. I have also spend most of my adult life helping others with the computers (as well as teaching in a university). So this is just the latest in a long history of me fighting for what I believe to be right.

It means a great deal to me to see so many people on a site I thoroughly respect, trying to instill social morals into others (with excellent and valid examples of the dangers supporting bad companies).

For anyone who is interested, here is a brief overview of who I really am (not the thief, funder of terrorism etc etc etc the MPAA would make me out to be):

http://p2pnet.net/story/4528

Again, thankyou all for the tremendous support.

Alexander Hanff
Owner of DVDR-CORE.ORG / Future Father

It's already been shown that the record industry is not losing money because of p2p. That's accepted as fact by everyone who's looked at the numbers except the RIAA, because admitting that efffectively admits that they were wrong in the first place. Regardless, I believe in the inherent goodness of most people and that people will pay for what they feel is worth their money. I don't download music via p2p very often but when I do, it's to decide whether or not I want to buy music or not. I've purchased many CDs recently directly because of songs I downloaded and liked.

First Post?

Solipsis is a infinitely scalable virtual world, p2pnet and smartmobs have stories on Solipsis..

NB : The name 'Solipsis' comes from Solipsism, a philosophical doctrine that claims that reality only exists in one's mind.

No, they are not an arm of the govt. They do however own some of the politicians in it...

Does anyone else think it's strange that there are so few US new agency reporting this, and the OP is quoting a Canadian agency??? There are a few national reports, but mostly local reports. It sure isn't seeming to get much attention...

Comcast deserves to get sued for caving in to the RIAA. Both Verizon and Charter fought the DMCA subpoenas in court and won.

The RIAA says music sales are down, more specifically they say sales of the top 100 cd are down and this is DUE TO PIRACY.

Well by Sales the Mean "Items Shipped to Stores" !

So all they Really Mean is Stores Stock Less.

In the US Nielsen Ratings are based on "Individual Sales to Customers" so are these REAL sales down?

"Soundscan recorded 146 million CDs sold in Q1 2003, against 160 million in Q1 2004 - an increase of nearly 10%. Figures for Q2, released this summer are expected to show yet another increase. The RIAA, on the other hand, are claiming a 7% decrease in revenue - but that's purely through managing shipments and returns."

Nope, Sales are up !!!
By this more realistic definition Music Sales are up.

=> Therefore if we are to believe the RIAA but use a more realistic definition of sales then :
FILE SWAPPING HAS INCREASED POPULAR MUSIC SALES.

Here is a Link with the sources http://digital-lifestyles.info/display_page.asp?se ction=distribution&id=1222

People listen to more music than they buy.
The More Music People Listen to, the more they buy.

ADD in the spectacular rise of iTunes and Music Sales are through the roof.

File Sharing promotes music and increases sales.

Artists Win, The RIAA, wins, File Swappers Win, P2P wins - Everyone Wins !!!

It is about controlling the means of distribution.

Here is an Very Rigorous Academic Study of File Sharings Effect on Record Sales.
The Conclusion:"File Sharing Has A Negligable Satistical Effect on Sales".
http://www.p2pnet.net/zero/FileSharing_March2004.p df
Here is A Japanese Study with much the same conclusion.
http://www.iir.hit-u.ac.jp/file/WP05-08tanaka.pdf
So the Lies are exposed, the **AA are just out to keep cartel control, make sure we only watch and buy what they have.
Read How Exhorbitant Liscense Fees for Samples have crippled Modern Music in the excellent fast paced read.
http://kembrew.com/documents/mcleod-freedomofexpre ssion3.pdf
Freedom Of Expression by Kembrew McLeod also details many other ways in which Irresponsible Litigous Intellectual Property stifles research, innovation, cost millions of lives worldwide due to drug patents and holds back the development of important medicines for breast cancer due to human genome patents.

I think that P2P has revitalised Culture and learning, it has made the world a richer place and everyone has benefited from this, leechers, artists and business' alike.

That sounds like "authorized distribution" to me. In that case, can somebody please post a list of the files on that server as they have deliberately been authorized for royalty free public use by the respective organizations that funded the APB.

Further, if their mole distributed files under copyrights owned by organizations that did not fund the APB, is the APB (or its funding organizations) liable for infingement? For instance, would the MPAA have to pay damages to the RIAA for not paying for the files the APB actively and admittedly [1] uploaded to the Internet for public distribution?

In short: Is this a case of the MPAA violating the RIAA's (or some similar organization's) copyrights?

MPAA Responsible for RIAA Woes... News at 11.

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From: peter@anti-piracy.se
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:29
To: Tilbury, Chad; Seymour, Dan; Winter, Craig
Subject: Swedish pirates busted!



Hi guys!

After 2 years of infiltrations our work finally paid of today with a successful raid on Sweden's oldest and largest ISP named Bahnhof. Bahnhof has been a source for top level piracy for several years and hosting some of the biggest and fastest servers in Europe.

CEO Michael Thomas of Colossal Storage says not impressed with WORM technology.

Radical disc storage increase

http://p2pnet.net/story/3769/

Episode V

The Spammer Strikes Back

It is a dark time for the Internet. Although Spamford Wallace has been shut down, Atriks spammers have driven the irate users from their inboxes and pursued them into court.

Evading the dreaded Distributed Mail Corporation, a group of freedom fighters led by Jay Stuler has established a new secret base on the remote ice world of Ohio.

The evil lord Darth Haberstroh, obsessed with harassing young Stuler, has dispatched thousands of spambots into the far reaches of the Internet...

Out of the blue, he heard from Gabe Newell, the managing director of Valve Software, based in nearby Bellevue, Wash. Valve is developing what gaming experts anticipate will be a blockbuster video game, Half-Life 2, but it is also creating an online distribution network that it calls Steam. Because of Mr. Cohen's expertise in just that area, Valve offered him a job. He moved to Seattle and started work in October (2003 !).

To the comment of Shadow, that Bittorrent is designed for offloading traffic from web servers. You are quite right, that was the original story, but currently we see both wide-spread illegal copying and significant non-infinging uses. A lot of People seem to want to download movies/games/TV shows/music digitally. SuprNova is the clear market leader on the black side of things. Bittorrent is a neutral technology which can be used illegally. Please read my position statement on that at P2PNet.net

A good quote in this context is "The Street finds its own uses for technology", William Gibson.

Another example is Freenet which would give freedom of expression back to the Internet.

Greetings, Johan.

Here's a link for the central internet exchange for Finnish ISP's to link together. Coralized FICIX stats.

Compare the stats from week ago, and today. Guess what changed?
Most telling is the last graph indicating traffic for the whole year.
The largest Finnish torrent site, Finreactor got busted by Keskusrikospoliisi (roughly the same as FBI of USA).

I guess they weren't sharing just Linux images ;P

http://p2pnet.net/story/3082

...IBM has a different platform in mind?

While Lycos was on unsteady legal footing in terms of their targets (i.e. it's often tough to connect a web site to the spam sender) the MPAA and RIAA can easily prove that a particular user or BitTorrent link site is sharing/hosting/providing copyrighted material. It may be just a matter of time before earlier efforts to legalize RIAA and MPAA DDOS attacks are resurrected.

Red Hat just announced the purchase of the Netscape Directory Server and Certificate Management System from AOL, which seems to be a slight departure from the usual business plan.

What I don't get is if Red Hat acquired Netscape Directory Service why are they still claiming to be focusing on the "desktop" when Novell's NDS is Linux-friendly. Is it mostly because of the proprietary nature of NDS? I just hope there isn't too much duplication of effort with the directory services biz.

Your pipe dream is in progress:

http://p2pnet.net/story/2749

Nashville Times

Engadget

P2P Net

Variety

Burst.com with no product and no employees has investors who have managed to push a penny stock up to $1.28 a share solely on the basis of the lawsuit. Burst Investors.com

It seems a shame not to include this choice example of investment strategy:

When the share price dropped from $8 to $2 in October 2000, I started buying shares, confident that Burst.com's technology would eventually prop the price back up. Like many other investors in this new century, I decided to average down and purchased more share as the price declined steadily to four cents in August 2003. Second Act of an Internet Play: the Fall and Rise of Burst.com

They are confiscating peoples computers.
http://p2pnet.net/story/2590
Copyright infringemnt, well really no harm done its not like they are pirates selling it for money.
But CONFISCATING SOMEONES COMPUTER, all your files, your essential tool for work, all your software.
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This is a civil liberties issue. Confiscating your computer is way too much - supose your vision imparied - or essential to society - suppose you run a business from home.

Seems with such the over 50% M/F gender ratio, they'd _want_ such content to be available instead of having a bunch of frustrated guys running around causing trouble.

Yes I know it's Internet2 and only links universities, industry and goverment for research purposes but still I'm sure the MPAA got their panties in a bunch over that qoute. Couldn't they use the standard measurement for data transfer speeds like how many times it can transfer the entire Library of Congress in a second?

It's the distributors' movie, And they don't want it downloaded.

Isn't there more important news to be reporting?

He's been one of the big supporters of the Pirate Act (allowing the DoJ to file civil suits against file swappers) and the Induce Act (blog) which seeks to hold those that "induce" copyright infridgements criminally liable.

Here's some more information on him. I guess some people should just not be reelected...

Those Cary Sherman and Gary Shapiro letters are getting so much traffic that P2Pnet has posted them here and here, and run a longer version of my article here.

Those Cary Sherman and Gary Shapiro letters are getting so much traffic that P2Pnet has posted them here and here, and run a longer version of my article here.

Those Cary Sherman and Gary Shapiro letters are getting so much traffic that P2Pnet has posted them here and here, and run a longer version of my article here.

The problem is the traditional distinction between the FBI and the RIAA is rapidly disappearing. Unfortunately, there are bills in Congress to turn the FBI into an extension of the RIAA. Even a letter by one congressman recommends permitting the FBI to go after 15,000 or so file sharers to set an example, and to permit the FBI to pursue civil as well as criminal punishment so it could more easily help corporations pursue individuals.

Sasser was intended to be a helpful virus and remove mydoom and bagel infestations...

What next? Will your house be raided on suspection of IP infrigement?

Software giant threatens mikerowesoftZDNet.co.uk,UK-8 minutes agoMicrosoft has set its lawyers onto a 17-year-old software writer from Vancouver, called Mike Rowe, because he has registered MikeRoweSoft.com, which the

Microsoft not pleased about mikerowesoft websiteAnanova,UK-3 hours agoA Canadian teenager called Mike Rowe who added the word soft to his name for his website title, has been ordered by Microsoft to hand over the domain.

Microsoft won't go soft on Mike RoweLondon Free Press,Canada-4 hours agoVANCOUVER -- Like any good fledgling businessperson, Mike Rowe knew

Microsoft lawyers threaten Mike Rowe (17)The Register,UK-5 hours agoIn what could easily be mistaken for an Onion story, Microsoft has unleashed the full fury of its lawyers on 17-year-old Canadian high-school student, Mike Rowe

Mike may be Rowe, but 'soft' is troubleSeattle Times,WA-7 hours agoBy The Associated Press. VANCOUVER, BC - Mike Rowe knew he needed a catchy name for his Web-site design company. But the folks

Big bully Gates targets teenTimes of India,India-8 hours agoVANCOUVER: No matter what Shakespeare said on the theme of nomenclature, Microsoft has thought it fit to sue a teenager whose domain name is a lot like the

Microsoft vs MikeRoweSoftIndependent Online,South Africa-10 hours agoVancouver, British Columbia - Mike Rowe thinks it's funny that his catchy name for a website design company sounds a lot like Microsoft.

Microsoft takes on teenNEWS.com.au,Australia-10 hours agoMIKE Rowe thinks it is funny that his catchy name for a Web site design company sounds a lot like Microsoft. "Since my name is Mike

Langford student battles tech giant over use of his domain name: Canada.com,Canada-Jan 17, 2004Mike Rowe, a Langford high school student who does Web site design part-time, is locked in a legal battle with one of the world's biggest companies.

Microsoft vs. Mike Rowe SoftWIS,SC-47 minutes ago(Vancouver, British Columbia-AP) Jan. 19, 2004 - It's Microsoft versus Mike Rowe-soft. Mike Rowe, 17, wanted a catchy name for his Web site design company.

Support CD Babyp2pnet.net,Canada-1 hour agoBecause Mike, who lives in Victoria on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada (and a short drive from p2pnet.net's thriving central base : ) makes a

Microsoft Talk Legal to 17 Year-Old Owner of MikeRoweSoft DomainShortNews.com-2 hours agoMike Rowe, 17, from British Columbia, Canada decided to start up a small web business and called his domain MikeRoweSoft. Smart

Microsoft Corporation vs MikeRoweSoftOfficialSpin-3 hours agoVictoria, British Columbia -- (OfficialSpin) -- 19/01/04 -- A 17 year-old high school student, Mike Rowe, who just so happens to earn a few extra bucks...

Microsoft demands teen to give up domain nameSalem Statesman Journal,OR-7 hours agoVANCOUVER, British Columbia - Mike Rowe knew that he needed

The EFF has taken on defense of another alleged filesharer. Here is a snippet:
Los Angeles, California - EFF today announced that it will defend Ross Plank of Playa Del Rey, California, against a wrongly filed complaint, among the 261 copyright infringement lawsuits the recording industry has filed against individuals.

The federal lawsuit filed against Plank in Los Angeles accuses him of making hundreds of Latin songs available using KaZaA filesharing software earlier this summer. Plank does not speak Spanish and does not listen to Latin music. More importantly, his computer did not even have KaZaA installed during the period when the investigation occurred.

More articles on Ross Plank and his 'wrongful accusal' at Wired, The Reg, The Inq, DSP Reports, and p2pnet.net.

SunnComm came to it's senses.

Enough people will be prosecuted and then people will stop.

But the more people they sue, the more people will start paying attention to boycott the riaa stickers. Yes, there will always be people that still go to the music stores, but numbers have been dropping already. 1 2

I mean, you define market forces with litigation. The whole point of this 'capitalism' thing is that people do what they want to, and it's businesses job to figure out how to make money off of it. I think that's what people are reacting to.

People wanting to do a quick search and then download the tunes they want to hear is a market force. Napster's cat is out of the bag, and there's no putting it back in. Now it's the industries job to figure out how to profit from it. If they don't, we will do it anyway.

I for one just want to see the penalty fit the crime. It would be easier, cheaper, and safer to just shoplift the CD's from the store. There's something wrong with that.

I also refuse to feel sorry for the media companies. They have been destroying and bakrupting artists LONG before I was born. They have delayed technology and purchased their laws long before I had a computer. All for their bottom line.

Hon. Senators & Representatives,

I thought it wasn't frowned upon for corporations to sue every company in a business market (that being P2P). In a sole bid to dominate said market by introducing their own product (Code-named B5).

The RIAA has initiated litigation against Napster, Morpheus, Grokster, Audiogalaxy, KaZaA users, college students, ISPs, and many more individuals. Settling most of these lawsuits for substantial sums of money, far exceeding the damages any reasonable person could associate with the 'illegal' activities. Even more remarkable was the defaming of this whole market of P2P ("Peer-to-Peer") by calling it "Peer-2-Porn" and suggesting child pornography is the primary use of these networks.

After all these efforts to end ALL successful P2P software programs, the RIAA then proceeds to introduce their own product after having done significant harm to the market.

Certainly this behavior should be looked into and your constiuents recommend a Congressional Investigation.

Here is an interesting article on Canadian copyright: Will Canada become THE file sharing nation?

Here is what the Copyright Board's decision stated in regards to "Private copying":

On March 19, 1998, Part VIII of the Copyright Act dealing with private copying came into force. Until that time, copying any sound recording for almost any purpose infringed copyright, although, in practice, the prohibition was largely unenforceable. The amendment to the Act legalized copying of sound recordings of musical works onto audio recording media for the private use of the person who makes the copy (referred to as "private copying"). In addition, the amendment made provision for the imposition of a levy on blank audio recording media to compensate authors, performers and makers who own copyright in eligible sound recordings being copied for private use. The Copyright Board's decision issued today sets a levy for this purpose.

- from Copyright Board's Decision Private Copying 1999-2000

4) Learn about and use additional tools that may be useful for blocking "enemy" scans of your system.

Something like Peer Guardian

From the site:

PeerGuardian is a simple P2P-enemy blocking program. It was initially just made for a few friends on XS.

It has aggression control so users can control the CPU versus their connection (dial-up users can use it with 20% aggression) and works in conjunction with the PG IP Database, an on-line database of P2P-enemy IP addresses which users can submit to, vote on submissions or add comments on existing ranges. Latest version is compatible with the 'Bulk Update' feature of the WWW-based PG2-IP-DB.

PeerGuardian is freeware.

There is an interesting review of Peer Guardian that also highlights some interesting points regarding blocking "enemy" IP scanning.

From the review:

"PeerGuardian blocks out known IP ranges used by MediaForce, MediaDefender, BayTSP, Ranger, OverPeer, RIAA, MPAA & NetPD by default," says Method on the app page."

Also, the PeerGuardian site also has a listing of "enemy" IP's that is updated periodically (not sure of the frequency).