Word: downloaders
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...Supreme Court ruling against Grokster gave record labels and movie studios the green light to sue file-sharing services, the RIAA has been busy with a letter writing campaign to shut down these services. Though file-sharing services are only guilty of a crime if they encourage illegal downloading (and Yagan steadfastly holds that eDonkey did not), these services lack the resources to fight the RIAA in court. Driven by an arrogance born of its deep corporate coffers, the RIAA is muscling legitimate startups out of business because some users are using the software to commit copyright violations. By doing...
...advertising, it might be worth considering the possibility that there are more sinister forces in play.Apple, it turns out, has other products and services, among them the well-regarded and quite successful iTunes Music Store—a haven where music-lovers can, for just a dollar per track, download major label songs which they can burn to CDs or load onto their iPod. Those tracks, it further transpires, have an interesting feature: they can only be loaded onto an iPod—not a Sony “Network Walkman,” nor a “Dell...
...last month. Defendants in the new round of litigation include 64 users of university networks including the three from Harvard, RIAA spokesperson Jenni R. Engebretsen said. The lawsuits accuse all of the university-network defendants of using i2hub—a software program that allows users to upload and download files over the intercollegiate network Internet2—to illegally share copyrighted music. “These lawsuits are part of our ongoing enforcement efforts, and part of our overall efforts to encourage students and music fans everywhere to turn to legal services” for downloading music, Engebretsen said...
...order to quickly remedy these glaring mistakes and others (such as listing “periodic abstinence” as a form of contraception), the Freshman Dean’s Office e-mailed every freshman, instructing them to download replacement planner pages. UHS also received permission to distribute these replacement pages to all freshman mailboxes. Because upperclassmen had not yet received their planners, the new contraception table was included as an insert and the offensive pages ripped out. Now, the table refrains from comment upon the attractiveness and embarrassment factor of any contraceptive method...
...never had ads saying ‘download Britney Spears here’,” Yagan said. “We never did that...