Prepare for some serious escalation on both sides of the file sharing issue. This doesn’t end the debate, it just upgrades the weapons on both sides. It’s going to be ugly, and neither side is totally in the right. Try not to let yourself become a legal casualty.
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The Pirate Bay Guilty; Jail for File-Sharing Foursome
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, April 17, 2009 @ 11:02 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Inside the Attack that Crippled Revision3
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, May 29, 2008 @ 11:17 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Over Memorial Day weekend, Revision3’s servers were brought down benenath the weight of a Denial of Service attack. The culprit? None other than MediaDefender, an anti-piracy service that specializes in disrupting P2P traffic.
Apparently, MediaDefender was abusing Revision3’s Bittorrent tracker (which they use to distribute legal copies of their own shows), by “injecting a broad array of torrents into [Revision3’s] tracking server.” When Revision3 deauthorized those torrents, MediaDefender’s servers “initiated a flood of SYN packets attempting to reconnect to the files.” Approximately 8,000 packets per second, by Revision3’s logs. MediaDefender claims that this was not an attack aimed at Revision3, but a natural consequence of losing contact with the torrents they had improperly injected into Revision3’s tracking server.
DoS attacks are illegal, and even if this wasn’t a targeted attack, you would think MediaDefender would still be liable for any financial losses Revision3 suffered as a result of the attack, as well as illicit profits MediaDefender earned through the unauthorized use of their server. However, I am not a lawyer. I’m hoping that Revision3 will take action, because this is really just the tip of the iceberg for MediaDefender, and they need to be brought in line.
Little Orphan Artworks
Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @ 10:18 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Lawrence Lessig weighs in with a well thought out criticism of the proposed changes before Congress dealing with “orphaned works.” His argument is that the proposed reforms are attempting to solve the right kinds of problems, but are attempting to do it in the wrong way, using a method that places an undue burden on copyright holders.
Download Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use - washingtonpost.com
Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, December 31, 2007 @ 07:52 CST by Daniel Andrlik
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Now the RIAA is filing suit for people making “unauthorized copies” of their music, by which they mean ripping a legally purchased CD to mp3 for personal use. Don’t let the Jammie Thomas photo fool you, the aspect of the suit the article is talking about does not involve her and does not involve file sharing, but rather the thing that millions of people do with their CDs every day. The RIAA has said in the past that this type of use (I really don’t know how this could be anything but fair use, but I’m not a lawyer) is okay, however of late they have been making threatening noises at the practice of making copies for personal use. Apparently, now the RIAA intends to charge ahead and see if they can push this issue in the courts. I can’t see them winning this point, but stupider things have come out of the courts before, and I have little faith in the state of copyright law in this country.
This post is for you, Robert Tourtelot
Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, June 23, 2007 @ 10:17 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
A comedy of legal errors as Travis Corcoran is repeatedly harassed by an incompetent and ignorant lawyer, with hilarious results.
Internet radio dealt severe blow as Copyright Board rejects appeal
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, April 17, 2007 @ 09:32 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Very sad news. It doesn’t mention it in this particular article but the royalty increases are also retroactive back to the beginning of 2006.
Listening Post
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, August 29, 2006 @ 17:44 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Napster CTO muses on the future of DRM
EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, May 10, 2006 @ 16:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Boing Boing: Patent office will ask the public to “peer review” inventions
Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, May 8, 2006 @ 16:14 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Patent office will ask the public to “peer review” inventions -> Smartest thing they’ve done
Amazon.com: Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity: Books: Lawrence Lessig
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, May 5, 2006 @ 11:49 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
