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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

LimeWire sued by record companies

File-sharing site LimeWire is being sued by a consortium of the world's largest record labels.

Universal Music, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner Music Group are asking for $150,000 (£79,000) in damages for each song "willfully infringed" by LimeWire, claiming that the company has profited from unlawful music downloads.

The US-based lawsuit claims that LimeWire's executives "have had a direct financial interest in, and derived substantial benefit from, the infringement of [the labels'] copyrighted

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Morpheus makers file suit against eBay

StreamCast Networks, the creators of the Morpheus file-sharing software, is alleging in a lawsuit that auction house eBay is profiting from peer-to-peer technology that rightfully belongs to it.

More at CNET News.com

Sunday, August 28, 2005

King Kong vs. the Pirates of the Multiplex

By TIMOTHY L. O'BRIEN

SHORTLY before Christmas, Universal Pictures plans to unveil its $150 million remake of "King Kong," the 1933 sci-fi classic featuring an overgrown beast with a soft spot for blondes, a craggy, fog-shrouded island inhabited by dinosaurs and a squadron of biplanes buzzing the Empire State Building.

The new version, aimed squarely at the hearts, minds and wallets of the teenage-to-mid-30's set that Hollywood prizes, has blockbuster written all over it. Peter Jackson, the

Thursday, February 5, 2004

The file-sharing dilemma

Attempting to deny the undeniable has become the accepted practice for many file-sharing companies especially as it relates to the ability to filter.

As the former CTO of one of those companies, I know firsthand that there are no technical limitations to the ability to filter.So, the question is not whether file-sharing companies can filter, but whether they will.

The continued focus with regard to filtering copyrighted works by keyword filtering is intended to divert attention from the

Thursday, September 12, 2002

Slyck's Streamcast Morpheus Interview

To clear any remaining doubt about Morpheus, we were able to speak with Darrell Smith, the Chief Technology Officer of Streamcast Networks.

http://www.zeropaid.com/news/1710/target=_blank

Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Record labels launch assault on piracy networks

The practice is called spoofing and it's being used by major record labels to battle Internet piracy.

Thousands of fake songs from popular artists such as Bryan Adams, India Arie, Blink-182, and Mary J. Blige have begun to pop up on the Internet's hugely popular file-sharing services.

When these seemingly innocent looking songs are downloaded and listened to, all that's heard is the sound of silence. In some cases, the song plays fine for about 20 seconds before the chorus loops endlessly. The

Monday, May 27, 2002

Algorithm for ttl element

Mon, May 27, 2002; by Dave Winer. I'm working on a sample for the new features of RSS that I'm playing with.

For the sake of discussion, I'm assuming these will be part of a format called RSS 0.94.

Here's Scripting News, rendered in this format. This is the feed people should subscribe to. It updates every time I update the HTML version of the weblog.

I'm also maintaining, for now (not necessarily for perpetuity) a folder of archives for past issues of Scripting News in this format. (The

Saturday, May 25, 2002

Scripting News with Dave Winer

I had a great talk this afternoon with Darrell Smith, the CTO of Streamcast, the company that makes Morpheus. When we get together we talk for hours. Darrell just bought three Mac OS X machines.