Grex Music3 Conference Item 142

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krj

The Fourteenth Napster Item

Apr 4 06:51 UTC 2003

I'm still obsessive; this item is back.      
 
Napster the corporation has been destroyed, but the Napster paradigm
continues.  This is another quarterly installment in a series of weblog 
and discussion about the deconstruction of the music industry and 
other copyright industries, with side forays into 
"intellectual property, freedom of expression, electronic media, 
corporate control, and evolving technology," as polygon once 
phrased it.
 
Several years of back items are easily found in the music2 and music3
conferences.
 
Linked between the Agora and Music conferences.

154 responses total.

krj

response 1 of 154:

Apr 4 06:56 UTC 2003

The RIAA has sued four college students: two at RPI, one at Princeton
and one at Michigan Tech.  The complaint is that the students ran 
a program to make indexes of what was available on their local
networks through Microsoft Windows filesharing -- essentially 
automating the process of looking up this public information.
 
The RIAA compares this to Napster; the Cnet story points out that 
the students are not providing the software which exchanges the files,
as Napster did.  Any file trading is done on through the standard
Windows software.
 
http://news.com.com/2100-1027-995429.html

jazz

response 2 of 154:

Apr 4 14:20 UTC 2003

        So, essentially, the RIAA needs to sue Microsoft for writing the Server
Message Block protocol?

        Sweet.

gull

response 3 of 154:

Apr 4 14:38 UTC 2003

The Norwegian government is appealing the aquittal of DeCSS writer Jon
Lech Johansen.  This is thought to be due to pressure from the MPAA;
they really need this legal precident to go the "right way". 
Prosecution is apparently complicated a bit by Norway's lack of anything
like the US's DMCA.  I'm not clear on exactly what the formal charges
are, mostly because I can't read Norwegian.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/30062.html


Also, an article on Security Focus about the FBI lobbying for "plug and
play" wiretapping capability on VoIP services and broadband Internet
connections, much like phone companies are currently legally required to
supply for ordinary phone service:

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/3466

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