Jun 26, 2002 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law
Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., whose district includes part of Hollywood, is preparing a bill that would let copyright owners, such as record labels or movie studios, hack into your computer or effectively disable your Internet connection if you use a file-sharing...
May 28, 2002 | law, security
Gotta love this story. In 2000, the FBI apparently used Carnivore electronic surveillance in an attempt to collect information on Osama bin Laden’s network. Unfortunately they screwed up and also collected a whole bunch of e-mails exchanged by “non-covered...
May 24, 2002 | audio, DRM, file_sharing, law
More developments in the recording industry’s relentless war to make sure we can’t actually hear any music. Yesterday KaZaA, the Dutch software and products company which founded KaZaA.com, announced that it intends to shut down because it can’t...
May 10, 2002 | law, Microsoft
The states in the Microsoft trial screwed up in a big way yesterday. The lawyers blew it, and the states may have blown a hole in their case. The states have been insisting that Microsoft be ordered to produce a stripped-down “modular” version of Windows...
