August 01, 2003

Cable or Satellite? Stay Tuned

NY Times on cable, satellite, TiVo and video on demand.

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RIAA's Most Wanted

Here are the screen names of some of the people hit with subpoenas by the RIAA:

Aab@Kazaa
Aboggs2@Kazaa
allstatetide@Kazaa
Amissann2@Kazaa
AngelaMikesell@Kazaa
anon39023@Kazaa
anthonybotz@Kazaa
aoster1@Kazaa
Ariel167@fileshare
asheejojo@Kazaa
Ashley@Grokster
azn_bahamut@Kazaa

B.B.C@Kazaa
badandy@Kazaa
Benchy987@Kazaa
Bigeasssy24@Kazaa
Bigpimpinitopey187@Kazaa
bigjohnhc@Kazaa
blazel@Kazaa
bluemonkey13@Kazaa
Boilermaker1214@Kazaa
brentandjonna@Kazaa
brich410@Kazaa
budman5000@Kazaa
Bush323@Kazaa
cado@Kazaa
Carolyn@fileshare
Casal@Kazaa
cbegalle@Kazaa
cherriie@Kazaa
CLOVER77@Kazaa
Corky101@Kazaa
Cortez1023@Kazaa
CowgirlMDR@Kazaa
crazyface@Kazaa
d-dubb@Grokster
dallass@Kazaa
dambroja@Kazaa
daredevil@Kazaa
DEFAINCE357@Kazaa
definitely_ditzy@Kazaa
dimples0530@Kazaa
dmadigan@Kazaa
dotzbadger@Kazaa
dubcha@Kazaa
dulfingurl2@Kazaa
Dyellagurl22@Kazaa
Dziion@Kazaa
eddieh@Kazaa
emmi4@Kazaa
enbbarnes@Kazaa
ERIKA@Kazaa
felicia_alvarado@Kazaa
flowerpower0818@fileshare
fox3j@Kazaa
freckles72587@Kazaa
fritzbuilding@Kazaa
Generalby@Kazaa
Ghettobootybabe8@Kazaa
h2ochamp@kazaa
harris@Kazaa
heather_thee_amazing@Kazaa
hoami316@Kazaa
hooterzzz@Kazaa
hottdude0587@Kazaa
HyDang@Kazaa
ilovemydez@Kazaa
indepunk74@Kazaa
inthisroom@Kazaa
IYIaC@Kazaa
jamonie@Kazaa
JE_WV@Kazaa
Jeff@Kazaa
Jessica@Kazaa
jim@Kazaa
joanjett@Kazaa
joe@Kazaa
jomada@Kazaa
JustineRiot@Kazaa
kelney12@Kazaa
kenne007@Kazaa
KrAyZiE@Kazaa
ktgurl13@Grokster
kunstrukter@Kazaa
ladypimp8669@Kazaa
laurelbean@Kazaa
leahpate@Kazaa
LiLHuNnIe1480@Kazaa
Lisweet@Kazaa
Lyssy348@Kazaa
madkirk@fileshare
Marge4131@Kazaa
Marla262@Kazaa
mgokey@Kazaa
mike@Kazaa
Motivator@Kazaa
munkeyspanker21@Kazaa
nikki@Kazaa
Niltiak@Kazaa
Nodopefor2@Kazaa
paulina@Kazaa
pdia@Kazaa
PDJ1846@Kazaa
Playgirlmama@Kazaa
Prtythug23@Kazaa
qjade512@Kazaa
rebecca_m_122@Kazaa
rips42@Kazaa
rochelle@Kazaa
RockOn182@Kazaa
samlionofzino@Kazaa
shakobe@Kazaa
shonga84@Kazaa
sk8boyben@Kazaa
sneil@Kazaa
soccerdog@Kazaa
StolenSi@Kazaa
sus@Kazaa
Sweet3114@Kazaa
sweetthang1421@Kazaa
TheLastReal7@Kazaa
TMONEYNDHIZOUSE@kazaa
Tyler@Kazaa
Unit984@Kazaa
Westly_NoGood@Kazaa
wilkes223@Kazaa
willow@Kazaa
witch_au@Kazaa
www.k_lite.tk_Kazaa_Lite@Kazaa

Posted by jdlasica at 01:03 PM | Permalink | Conversation (2) | TrackBack (0)

anthony said:

JD, You know better than posting information without citing a source! Well, I'm sure it was just a mistake... unless you have a PACER account and researched the list like TechTV did. :)

JD said:

Actually, I tried for 5 minutes to get through to techtv.com so that I could get the proper url, but the either the servers were overloaded or the site was down yesterday.

And it's stilldown.

Colleges warn students on sharing music

Front page story in today's Boston Globe: Some colleges warn students on sharing music.

Boston College, DePaul University, and several other US schools are laying down some entertainment law as part of freshmen orientation this summer: If the recording industry catches you sharing copyrighted music files, they say, we won't protect you.

As the recording industry deepens its crackdown on Internet music piracy, administrators at several major universities said they are now spending an unprecedented amount of orientation time educating students about copyright infringement and fielding questions from an increasing number of parents who are concerned about file-sharing. And their message to students and parents is stark.

''They said, `If the record industry comes here with a list of addresses, we're going to have to turn them over,' '' said Michael Trapanese, 18, a student from Kinderhook, N.Y., who will attend Boston College in the fall. ...

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Doubts still plague online music

IDG News Service:

Despite the fact that major music companies have finally joined Internet services to offer a much greater variety of authorized online music than a year ago, market growth is sputtering as the industry remains mired in legal and business problems, judging from what entertainment and Internet insiders had to say at the Jupiter Plug.IN Conference & Expo in New York this week.

Contention over publishing contracts, debate over how restrictive to make digital rights management, or DRM, copy controls, continuing use of unauthorized file-swapping sites, and failure to capitalize on new marketing techniques made possible by the Web continue to curb growth, according to speakers here. ...

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the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow said:

Lucas Gonze: EMusic is a freedom-proof business model

Hackers get lesson in the law

Declan in News.com: The director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society warns attendees of the Black Hat security conference that publishing information on flaws could lead to legal woes.

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Study: U.S. swappers shrug off copyright

CNET News.com: Study: U.S. swappers shrug off copyright.

More than two-thirds of Americans who swap songs online don't care whether the music is copyrighted, according to a study, despite the record industry's antipiracy crackdown.

The Pew Internet and American Life Project study, released Thursday, found that 67 percent of U.S. Internet file swappers are indifferent to copyright concerns, a jump from 61 percent in a survey from the summer of 2000. The survey, of 2515 adults in the United States, took place from March through May--just a few months before the recording industry began gathering evidence to sue individual file swappers. ...

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How the digital revolution is changing us

Steve Lohr in the NY Times looks at how the digital revolution is changing middle-class America.

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Rush Limbaugh is always right

In the LA Times' CalendarLive: Rush Limbaugh -- whom I watched jump from the Sacramento radio market to national fame -- is marking his 15th year in the big leagues. We have him to thank for the coarsening of public debate on the airwaves.

Thanks to IWantMedia for the pointer.

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Web site begets newspaper

Portland (Maine) Press Herald: While many news Web sites have grown out of newspapers, local news site Villagesoup.com is spinning off its own weekly newspaper. Thanks to IWantMedia for the pointer.

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News media too soft on White House

In today's Newsday, Norman Solomon of the Institute for Public Accuracy says that journalists have shown a reflexive deference toward the Bush administration since 9/11.

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Senator wants answers from RIAA

Katie Dean in Wired News: Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., calls on the music industry group to clarify just whom it is subpoenaing and why. He's worried that innocent people might be sued for copyright infringement by the music industry.

Amy Harmon in the NY Times has a similar story.

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'Copying is theft ... and other legal myths'

Mark D. Rasch, J.D., former head of the Justice Department's computer crime unit and now a security executive, writes in SecurityFocus: Copying is Theft ... and other legal myths in the looming battle over peer-to-peer.

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Robust interaction on a news site

Well, the readers comments section on Dan G's eJournal is certainly getting a workout, such as these comments in reaction to this posting.

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EFF chairman on Usenet, spam and phones

GrepLaw interviews EFF chair Brad Templeton on Usenet policy, spam and reinventing the phone.

Of course, Slashdot weighs in, as well.

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An Illegal Artist speaks

Lisa Rein interviews Laura Splan, Illegal Artist.

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Weddings in IP land

I leaped to a wrong conclusion about IP stars Donna Wentworth and Siva Vaidhyanathan, who are both getting married -- but not to each other. Apologies ... and many congratulations on your independent nuptials.

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Donna Wentworth said:

Oh dear me, did I give the impression we were a couple?

No, no, I simply stole a *headline* from Siva! Because I noted we were similarly blessed in finding partners-in-life at roughly the same time.

Joe said:

Neither of you guys (Siva and Donna) name your mates... Siva does say, "Hook 'em Horns" which is usually reserved to refer to the Longhorns of UT (Austin).

Donna Wentworth said:

I could see only afterward that I'd implied something there, but no harm done--none at all! I was amused/bemused.

For the record, my mate's name is Jarrod. He doesn't run in IP circles--and hopefully, not many circles at all ;-)

How to improve the Net, in 200 words

Mitch Ratcliffe offers a 200-word essay in Britain's Copydesk on how to improve the Internet.

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Glenn Reynolds and Instajournalism

Christopher Lyndon interviews Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds, calling Reynolds' blogging "instajournalism."

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Howard Dean's Internet advisor

David Weinberger comes out of the closet and announces for Howard Dean. In fact, he has become the Dean campaign's "Senior Internet Advisor." Nice going, David.

Me? I'm still on the fence, and will probably remain so until early next year. I like Dean and John Kerry but I also like John Edwards, who hasn't gotten much media attention but may be Bush's toughest opponent.

I would like to believe David's suggestion that energizing the disenfranchised to vote is a superior strategy to appealing to centrist voters, but in the post-9/11 world, I'm not convinced that's a winning strategy. And the latest polling seems to bear that out.

Damn, what's the deal with white men, anyway?

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