Non-P2P DRM / Copyright News Comments 2006-12-08
Apple is trying to patent a menuing scheme!! Don’t expect me to buy an Ipod. I guess that, if the patent is issued, you can expect to hear from apple’s lawyers if your software uses a menuing scheme with a similar flowchart and involves automated transfer of content between devices.
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I really don’t care if the allofmp3.com site lives or dies. AllOfMP3.com is Piracy-4-Money, unlike the PirateBay who is Piracy-4-Free (Their donation income bobs above and below their operating expenses).
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Lawsuits against linkers to pirated content is not new. It appears the rate of secondary scatter-sueing over copyright infringement (sueing linkers to a host of infringing conent) is on the rise. I’m not sure if P2PNet is being threatened over links to a site with warez or links to a site with a commercial product that is accused of infringing copyright or maybe just to a site or article accused of libel or something? Only details given is “In August, a heavyweight associated with a major Canadian political party threatened p2pnet with a nasty lawsuit unless we took down links to a site mentioned in another law suit. This person also demanded information about the publishers of the site we’d pointed to.”. The rest, including the reference links, is just tangent-filler. It does appear to be libel or political rather than piracy, patents, and copyright by this – “p2pnet refused to cooperate. We can’t for the moment go into more detail because we haven’t yet had a response to our refusals and we mention it only because demands being made by individuals and companies wanting to censor the Net by forcing sites to take down links look like becoming a major issue.”. They are probably better off not responding to the ‘legal threats’ and throwing them in the garbage. Look at the Pirate Bay. They ridicule them and then put them up in a mockery exhibit (‘the legal threats page’). I’d probably publish them with less mockery if i’m not lazy, otherwise just thow them away, but either way never actually officially reply.
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They cracked TivoToGo’s DRM!!! Yeah! If you didn’t have DRM in the first place (A custom PC-DVR kit) you wouldn’t even need to crack the DRM to begin with! PCSurveillance is just from a quick google search. I didn’t do any price shopping yet. These guys appear to sell spy cameras (cops / PIs / digruntled spouses / paranoid people) too and the DVR cards are design for security camera footage, but they should work for DRM-free TV-Ripping too though I knot sure if these hardware-compression hardcore cards will work with PVR/DVR tv-guide software. But if normal PC-PVR cards will be forced to listen to broadcast flags, these security-camera designed DVR cards will be overlooked by the law.
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The only thing that the German and British Football authorities have to become as bad as the RIAA is to start sueing video posters, bloggers, and file sharers with an automated ’sue em all’ campaign with semi-precise targeting with no target circumstance discrimination (some signs of income discrimination though, prefering upper-lower to middle-middle class who both will be too collectable to let the case go to default judgment without fear and decent lawyers will be unaffordable unless very long payment plans are involved) with a totally currupt subpoena system (process of converting IP/Filename to name/address), followed by no-mercy pre-litigation settlement ‘collections’, and finally, no-mercy but bully-cowardish litigation (They quickly back down and run if anything that looks like a meaningful defense is demonstrated).
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Free (Beer + Freedom), Open Source. Good top 10. Creative Commons is not a software work though. They are an organization like the FSF.
