Last month, Michael Brown received notice that the recording industry was suing him in federal court for allegedly trading copyrighted music illegally on the Internet. Brown, 56, sitting on his front porch in Clifton, says he didn't do it. And for good reason...

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050724/NEWS01/507240393

Court nominee Roberts' panel rejected P2P ruling

President Bush's pick to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was part of the three-judge panel that threw out a section of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that would have given entertainment companies an expedited way to identify alleged copyright pirates on the Internet...

http://zeropaid.com/news/5570/Court+nominee+Roberts%27+panel+rejected+P2P+ruling/

Family Guy: the Untold Story

The Untold Story! has leaked onto file sharing networks two months before the set release date. The movie studios received one of their biggest blows today with the news that a high quality copy of the Family Guy movie is spreading rapidly around P2P networks, months before its home theater release...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=865

Music Industry Wins Suit - Linking to Pirated Content Illegal!

THE music industry has claimed a big win against piracy in the Australian courts last week. Thirty-one applicants, including seven international music labels successfully sued the operators of MP3s4free.net for breaching the Australian Copyright Act. The Age newspaper claims the win is significant because the case determined that linking to pirated material, and not just downloading it, is an infringement of copyright under Australian law...

http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news005_20050725.html

More SNOOPWARE pushed by the MPAA?

The Motion Picture Association of America this week announced the availability of its Parent File Scan software. The Windows-based application helps users identify illegal files stored on their computers. In light of the MGM v. Grokster Supreme Court case and recently launched PauseParentPlay coalition campaign, the MPAA said it is working to provide parents with the tools and technology needed to detect and delete illegal multimedia files and P2P (peer-to-peer) file-sharing applications that have been downloaded to the family computer...

http://boycott-mpaa.com/modules.php?name=News &file=article&sid=153

BearShare - the Bastard Child of Gnutella

[BearShare] just never quite reached the heights of its brethren, LimeWire. In fact, it's never come close. Let's start off with the obvious comparisons between BearShare and Limewire - third party software. Now, there is a raging debate as to the difference between "adware" and "spyware", and we could waste paragraphs of content describing the two. However for the purposes of this article, we will refer to these entities as third party software...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=863

MP3 Turns Ten!

It was ten years ago that just another file format was introduced. Few would have suspected that it was destined to change the entire world of entertainment. Consider the upheaval that has followed: Napster. Kazaa. BitTorrent. The RIAA and MPAA wars. The iPod and iTunes. All of these areas -- and many more -- were heavily influenced, if not directly related to, the MP3 file format...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=857

Sony BMG to Settle New York Payola Investigation

Sony BMG Music Entertainment, the nation's second-largest music company, is expected as early as Monday to agree to a settlement with New York Atty. Gen. Eliot Spitzer in an ongoing payola investigation, said sources familiar with the talks...

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-payola2 3jul23,0,4233398.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Beethoven's Rarest Works Online

In a little-trafficked corner of the Web, a pair of classical music enthusiasts has spent half a decade obsessively re-creating hundreds of obscure pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven...

http://news.com.com/Beethovens+rarest+works+re-created+online/2100-1027_3-5793835.html?tag=nefd.lede

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