Copyright Infringement In the News

Lots of newsbits about copyright infringement today - let's mash them all together with some egg whites and breadcrumbs and see what we get. marklyon writes "The DOJ announced that they are planning to prosecute filesharers under the The No Electronic Theft ("NET") Act. John Malcolm, a deputy assistant attorney general, made the pronouncement at the Progress and Freedom Foundation's annual technology and politics summit Tuesday. Cnet has extended coverage." Reader M_Talon writes "According to this article on ZDNET the RIAA is using one of the DMCA's more nasty clauses...the right to subpoena an ISP for a suspected pirate's personal information. They want to force Verizon to reveal the customer's information, and Verizon is refusing on the grounds that the pirated material isn't on their servers." Reader MattW writes "Apparently some theaters are consenting to run anti-piracy ads before movies. After all, these are not a bunch of fat cats we're talking about -- piracy now threatens the livelihood of the rank and file workers of Hollywood. After all, the movie studios are having a terrible year, right?" Finally, the Washington Post (probably one of the last articles we post from their site, as they go registration-required) discovers spoofed files on Gnutella, and public radio is reporting that the RIAA will drop their suit against listen4ever.com, since it's, uh, gone.

Comments

Washington Post also mozilla-unfriendly

[Isaac-Lew]

I don't mind registering for the Wash. Post (after all, it's local to me & my father worked as a press operator there for almost 30 years). However, apparently mozilla has a problem with the new format (even after registering, when going to some pages either you get a blank page or it continuously tries to connect). I wrote them - I received a reply that mozilla wasn't supported (changing the User-Agent in konqueror to IE allowed me access, and I pointed that out in my re-reply).

Re:Washington Post

[Target Drone]

For the NYT you used to be able to use the Random Login Generator. Unfortunately it seems they fixed that little loophole.

Perhaps all those first posters could actually make themselves useful and kindly create a new account and post a user name and password for the rest of us.

Re:Under the NET Act...

[geekoid]

The Bionic man, ahhh the memories...
I watched a couple of episodes recently, I noticed a funny thing.

In the early seasons, they died Rudy's hiar to make him look older, but later they died it to make him look younger.
by latter, a mean the specials that came out after words.