LimeWire Works to Block Unlicensed Material

on September 13, 2005, the RIAA sent several letters to various P2P developers. The letter, which LimeWire is believed to have been a recipient of, demands that P2P developers prevent their users from infringing on copyrights or face litigation. It now appears that LimeWire might bow to this demand. Approximately 3 to 5 days ago, LimeWire developers began working on two new branches...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=927

The Customer Is Always Wrong

There is an increasing variety of options for purchasing music online, but also a growing thicket of confusing usage restrictions. You may be getting much less than the services promise. Many digital music services employ digital rights management (DRM) — also known as "copy protection" — that prevents you from doing things like using the portable player of your choice or creating remixes. Forget about breaking the DRM to make traditional uses like CD burning and so forth. Breaking the DRM or distributing the tools to break DRM may expose you to liability under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) even if you're not making any illegal uses...

http://www.eff.org/IP/DRM/guide/

Big Music fires back at Apple

The gloves are off in the battle between Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the music industry over the price of downloaded songs. On Thursday, one of the music industry’s highest-profile executives responded publicly to Mr. Jobs’ charges, made earlier in the week, that they were “greedy” when they requested a price hike for downloaded songs. At an investors’ conference in New York, Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. said the price of downloaded songs should vary depending on the popularity of the songs and the artists...

http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=13702&hed=Bronfman%2BFires%2BBack%2Bat%2BApple

P2P Networks Face Uncertain Future

"This is obviously hard for P2P developers," said Fred von Lohmann, who represented StreamCast before the Supreme Court as part of the Grokster case. He said the Supreme Court left key questions unanswered. "There's really no roadmap for legality today; there's no clear way that you can be sure as a P2P that you're off the hook..."

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11300002KQTH

New Breed of Corrupt Torrent Infiltrates BitTorrent

Although false and corrupt files have been a part of the BitTorrent community since its beginning, a new kind is emerging that aims for maximum exposure... According to Rex, about 50 new torrents have been released from what he calls "fake" trackers (~31 in total.) These trackers are seemingly part of an elaborate plot to infiltrate the BitTorrent community with intentionally corrupt files...

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=926

Patent: ID physical address of Web surfers

Patent 6,947,978, granted this week, describes a process based on latency, or time lag between computers exchanging data, of "numerous" known locations on the Internet to build a "network latency topology map" for all users. Identifying the physical location of an individual user, reports CNET News.com, could then be accomplished by measuring how long it takes to connect to an unknown computer from numerous known machines, and using the latency response to display location...

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46501

Patching Firefox, ignoring Internet Explorer

The folks at Mozilla have responded to the report of a serious flaw in their browsers, including Firefox. The vulnerability relates to the handling of 'International Domain Names' (IDNs), which use local language characters. The browser's handling of these characters can be exploited to run malicious code on a user's PC. One of the neat things about Firefox, however, is its ability to control all sorts of settings that lie just underneath the covers...

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2005/09/patching-firefox.html

BitTorrent gets $8.5 million

Om Malik heard a rumor last month that P2P digital content company BitTorrent had raised some venture dollars from DCM-Doll Capital Management. BitTorrent poobah Ashwin Navin, however, said that while his company would be "opportunistic," it had not taken any outside money. Well, opportunity has now formally knocked...

http://www.tjacobi.com/50226711/bittorrent_with_85_million_round.php

Detecting and fighting phishers

The scary thing is that, according to the Houston Chronicle, about 5% of adults receiving a phishing email provided some sort of personal information to the phisher. Want to fight back? We'll break this phishing scheme down, show you how to trace back a phishing email, and -- in some cases -- alert the parties who, wittingly or unwittingly, provide phishing infrastructure...

http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2005/05/detecting-and-fighting-phishers.html

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