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20020903

"Delaware judge blocks sale of Napster to Bertelsmann." ... "" -AP via -MercuryNews

20020727

"The Dark Side of Hacking Bill." ... "Watch as they rifle through your files, dismantle your network, and delete all those songs and movies you can't prove have a legal right to exist on your hard drive. Hope the special effects don't include the accidental destruction of your data when your computer becomes a stunt double in Hollywood's latest blockbuster attempt to protect its copyrighted material." ... ""Basically, [California's Congressman] Berman is going to legalize all of the antisocial Internet activities that we have been trying to stamp out for the last decade," said Paul McNabb, chief technical officer of security firm Argus Systems Group." (1, 2) -By Michelle Delio -Wired

20020726

Messaging - "Music Bill Is Bully on IMs." California's Democratic Congressman Howard Berman has submitted legislation that permits copyright owners to hack citizens private computers. ... "If the attack was somehow a case of mistaken identity, recourse would be difficult. Individuals would have to petition the Attorney General for a private investigation. After the initial request, the agency would have four months to look into the matter." ... "Along with making it open season on individual users, open-source programs and decentralized networks, the bill also gives a free pass to chat applications run by the very media companies that would most benefit from open-source networks being shuttered." (1, 2) -By Brad King -Wired

20020725

"Bill would allow hacking of P2P services: Media companies could thwart users from swapping files." ... "The bill would permit recording companies and other copyright holders to hack onto networks to thwart users looking to download free music, and would protect them from lawsuits from users." -Reuters via -CNN

20020723

"Could Hollywood hack your PC? Congress is about to consider an entertainment industry proposal that would authorize copyright holders to disable PCs used for illicit file trading." ... "Sponsored by Reps. Howard Berman, D-Calif., and Howard Coble, R-N.C., the measure would permit copyright holders to perform nearly unchecked electronic hacking if they have a "reasonable basis" to believe that piracy is taking place. Berman and Coble plan to introduce the 10-page bill this week." ... "The legislation would immunize groups such as the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America from all state and federal laws if they disable, block or otherwise impair a "publicly accessible peer-to-peer network."" -By Declan McCullagh-CNET /News

20020703

"Music labels go after song-swappers [lawsuits planned against individual peer to peer users]." "... top record-label executives agreed in a trade association meeting a few weeks ago that they would move toward preparing suits that would focus on individuals who supply the biggest amounts of music, as well as so-called “supernodes,” or people who provide the centralized directories that enable online music-sharing. According to people with knowledge of the matter, two of the strongest backers of the tough tactics have been the biggest music companies, the recording units of Vivendi Universal SA and Sony Corp." -By Anna Wilde Mathews and Bruce Orwall -WSJ.com via -MSNBC

20020603

"Napster files for bankruptcy." ... "Napster, the Californian company that pioneered the mass-market swapping of music online, has filed for bankruptcy protection from its creditors."-BBC /News
Discussion - "Napster files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy." -Slashdot

20020525

"Audiogalaxy hit by RIAA suit: The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against Audiogalaxy, adding another front to the industry's legal battles against post-Napster file-swapping services." -By John Borland -ZDNet>News

20020519

"Paid content comes to Kazaa: Paid content will invade the Kazaa file-swapping network Monday in a major commercial test of a service that until now has lured millions of people with free music, video and other digital files." ... "The move is fraught with controversy as it is the first application of Altnet, a service from Kazaa partner Brilliant Digital Entertainment that came to light amid a Web privacy storm last month. Some Kazaa users reacted with outrage when they discovered that bits of Altnet had been quietly installed on their computers, creating a network to be manipulated by a little-known company whose ambitions were unknown." -By John Borland -CNET /News

20020430

"MP3 viruses could play with Winamp: A glitch with the popular Winamp software for playing digital music files could allow an attacker to embed malicious code into an MP3 file, potentially damaging the user's PC and infecting other MP3s." ... "The glitch does not affect the newest version, 2.80, which was released last week. In the older version, the problem can be fixed by disabling Winamp's mini-browser." -By Matthew Broersma -CNET /News

20020424

"StrangeSearch [file sharing program] liability issues unclear: Popular online index raises questions about copyright responsibilities at Iowa State [University]." ... "Every day StrangeSearch has 100,000 hits from more than 2,000 different computers, resulting in an immeasurable number of copyrighted downloads. Peterson [one of the programs users] alone has more than 80,000 MP3s." -by Kara Kranzusch -IowaStateDaily
Google Search: <StrangeSearch>

20020228

"Morpheus' File-Trading Fiasco." A software 'upgrade' shutdown the Morpheus P2P file-sharing network -- the upgrade apparently 'centralizes' the previously decentralized service making it potentially vulnerable to legal attacks. -By Brad King -Wired

20020114

"Is your computer inviting voyeurs? Embarrassing, private text files find their way onto the Net." Inexperienced users using file sharing programs sometimes share more than they intended to. -By Bob Sullivan -MSNBC

20011212

"Huge [global software] piracy ring raided." -BBC /News

20011106

"Napster's keeper [Bertelsmann] makes big Net bet." -By Jim Hu-CNET /News

20011015

"RIAA Wants to Hack Your PC." ... "It's no joke. Lobbyists for the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) tried to glue this hacking-authorization amendment onto a mammoth anti-terrorism bill that Congress approved last week. " (1, 2) -By Declan McCullagh -Wired

200109(10)--

"Future Boy: The Napster Legacy: It's a bigger problem than the music industry realizes." -By Erick Schonfeld - 200110-Issue -Business2.0

20010906

"Napster Eclipsed by Newcomers" -Wired

20010904

"PluggedIn: In Napster's wake, new services take off" X-Reuters via - FindLaw>LegalNews

20010827

"Campus Music Trades Continue" -By Brad King -Wired

20010815

"Genie is out of the bottle for recording industry" -By Tom Regan -CSMonitor

20010802

"Worker fired over MP3 music files" ... she was "told that ex-Beatle George Harrison's music publishers had traced illegal downloads to [her] ... computer." - SunTimes

20010726

"The 'Net After Napster: New File-Sharing Systems Begin to Fill the Void" + "How It Works: A Visual Primer for Sharing Files " -NPR / ATC

20010725

"Morpheus: The Better Napster TIME.com's Silicon Valley columnist dubs this file-swapping Napster successor 'The One.'" -By Chris Taylor Time.com

20010720

"Revenge of the file-sharing masses! By smashing Napster, the music industry has pushed its customers to seek alternatives that won't be so easy to shut down." (1, 2) -By Scott Rosenberg -Salon/-news

20010517

"House Subcommittee Holds Hearing on Compulsory Licensing of Music on the Internet" -TechLawJournal

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