Everyone knows the risks of working on an open Wi-Fi connection. Everything can be stolen from your security to your bandwidth. But the courts in the US have been historically unaware of the implications of an open Wi Fi connection. Finally, though, there appears to be one judge that understands that an IP connection does [...]

Categories: P2p, The Web

TechCrunch ran a story back in February were they claimed that Last.fm data was handed over to the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The data dump in question was being analyzed to find information about unreleased music tracks that have been played by users. They received lots of fire for that article from Last.fm [...]

Categories: Security, The Web

The RIAA, that is the Recording Industry Association of America, has claimed another victim in its fight against any form of music exchange that users and providers do not pay for. It hit Muxtape this time, a website that was reviewed not long ago here at Ghacks. Muxtape provided a great way to upload mp3 [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry

I just send a letter to your ISP telling them that you are sharing files. I did not have to prove my claims because I’m in high standing. Your Internet Service Provider is now sending a DCMA takedown notice / a warning letter / a three-strikes-and-you-are-out letter to the owner of the IP that has [...]

Categories: Music Industry, The Web

Paramount apparently decided that it would be a great idea to deter and track piracy by silencing random parts of the movie Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. This seems to be a sort of watermarking technique to be able to identify the cinema the copy of the movie was made.. if [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry

Can you please hand over all electronic devices that you carry with you, Sir ? I need to check them thoroughly for copyright infringing material, terrorist activity and pornography. Is that a video of you and your wife, wow that looks hot. Is that the new song of Madonna ? Do you have a receipt [...]

Categories: Music Industry

There is undoubtedly a trend of releasing music albums for free / for donations / for what individuals are willing to pay on the Internet. The last months were full of stories about bands like Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails who managed to create lots of publicity by using these new distribution methods that would [...]

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry, The Web

Have you ever asked yourself how it is possible that users are tracked over months in P2P networks although their IP address is changing regularly ? We only hear reports about session based user identifications. Session based means that shared files of this session are analyzed and recorded opposed to tracking a user over months.

Categories: P2p, Security, The Web

In a move that can only be described as desperate the RIAA, or better Cary Sherman, its President, suggested at the State of the Net Conference to bundle filters that check for copyrighted data with programs that would benefit the user such as antivirus applications to counter the problem with encryption that they are currently facing. He did not stop there though and suggested that the ISP would monitor, ehm, filter, the user as well through the likes of the modem for instance.

Categories: Music and Video, Music Industry, Software, Tools