Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7 Released Wednesday September 21st, 2005

Mozilla Firefox 1.0.7, a security and stability update to the flagship Mozilla browser, is now available for download. Fixes are included for the international domain name (IDN) link buffer overflow vulnerability and the Linux command line URL parsing flaw. There are also other security and stability changes, including a fix for a crash experienced when using certain Proxy Auto-Config scripts.

In addition, some regressions introduced by previous 1.0.x security updates have been resolved. The Mozilla Foundation previously issued a patch for Firefox 1.0.6 that protected users against the IDN link buffer overflow flaw at the expense of removing support for IDNs. Firefox 1.0.7 has a more permanent solution that does not involve disabling IDN functionality and any users who installed the patch will find that IDN support is restored when they upgrade. Firefox 1.0.7 can be downloaded from the Firefox product page or the Firefox 1.0.7 directory on ftp.mozilla.org.

The Firefox 1.0.7 Release Notes have more details about this upgrade and we expect the Mozilla Foundation’s list of known security vulnerabilities to be updated soon. An equivalent update to the Mozilla Application Suite, Mozilla 1.7.12, is expected shortly.

download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0.7&os=win〈=en-GB

Slyck has reported since the RIAA began its “cease and desist” letter writing campaign that virtually any move a P2P developer makes is immediately associated this industry move. Such has been the case with Ares going open source, MetaMachine joining the DCIA, WinMX going belly-up and now, the purported closure of eDonkey’s MetaMachine.

If one conducts a search for “edonkey” on Google News, immediately the individual is confronted with headlines such as “WinMX and eDonkey cease operation” or content which implies that eDonkey’s MetaMachine has closed.

Most articles have closely associated the RIAA letter writing campaign and the closure of WinMX with the inability to contact MetaMachine. This has caused tremendous confusion, as it implies that MetaMachine has ceased operations due to the RIAA’s letter campaign.

Let’s clear this up immediately. eDonkey’s offices are open for business, and Sam Yagan is readily available, as Slyck spoke with MetaMachine’s President on these wild rumors.

“We haven’t been operating out of New York City since 2004,” Mr. Yagan told Slyck.com. “Our offices are in New Jersey now.”

MetaMachine is clearly open for business. While its narrowly true that MetaMachine’s New York representatives are unavailable as many news articles report, this has been the case for almost a year.
Via www.slyck.com

Look, guy, not everyone has GPS, ok? Plus you know how much we adore P2P-whatever. Enter Navizon, a GPS, WiFi, and cellular peer-to-peer based mobile positioning system for Pocket PC devices. Of course, this system (like all other peer-based mobile software systems) only works well when you actually have a lot of people running the software, but they also claim to have the cellular/WiFi triangulation thing down by having those users who do have GPS sync to their servers with varying coordinates. Sounds like it could work—anyone want to take it for a test drive with a few of their buddies?

Via engadget.com

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. digital media company, Snocap, run by Napster founder Shawn Fanning, said on Friday it signed deals with various independent labels.

Snocap said it reached agreements with V2 Music, Matador Records and the Beggars Group under which the labels will upload and register their music catalogs with SNOCAP’s database services, enabling the digital distribution of their content through commercial peer-to-peer services.

SNOCAP has already established relationships with three major labels, including Sony BMG, Vivendi Universal’s Universal Music and EMI Group Plc and has reached a partnership with Mashboxx, a soon-to-be launched service that will pay copyright owners for their songs.

Mashboxx is currently in discussions to buy Grokster, industry sources have said.

Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that online file-sharing services can be held liable for the copyright violations of their users, various peer-to-peer services are looking for ways to offer songs in a way that is deemed legitimate.
Via www.dose.ca

The Taipei District Court found Taiwan’s largest peer-to-peer (P2P) operator guilty of intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement Sept. 9. Three executives of the Kuro Web site were given jail terms in what is widely believed to be the first incidence of a criminal conviction for operating an Internet file-sharing service.

Kuro President Chen Shou-teng was given two years in jail. His sons, Fashionow Co. Ltd. CEO Chen Kuo-hua and General Manager Chen Kuo-hsiung, were each sentenced to three years in prison. Fashionow is the company that operates the Kuro Web site, located at www. kuro.com.tw. Each of the family members was fined US$91,000 in addition to their jail terms.

Having asked the court for a sentence of up to seven years in prison for the Kuro CEO, and to fine him US$15 million, prosecutors were reportedly unhappy with the short sentence and said they would appeal on the grounds that the US$91,000 fines were too low. Kuro likewise said it would appeal the verdict to a higher court.

“We wanted to cooperate with the record industry, but we were denied,” CEO Chen was reported as saying. The organization that initiated the prosecution was the Taiwan office of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), whose executives were pleased with the ruling.

“This is good news for artists and the music industry, particularly in Taiwan, which has had a history of piracy problems,” Lauri Rechardt, IFPI director of licensing and litigation, was reported as saying. “Kuro has received a criminal conviction, which sends a strong message that profiteering from infringement will not be tolerated,” she added.

In addition to the company executives, one of Kuro’s 500,000-800,000 members was also convicted of illegally downloading music in MP3 format. Chen Chia-hui, a 24-year-old woman who downloaded a reported 970 songs using the service, was sentenced to four months in jail and three years’ probation.
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“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.”

The Recording Industry Association of America sent letters to several P2P network firms last week to request that they stop allowing music files to be shared over their systems.

Even prior to the RIAA letter, some P2P firms already had curtailed their activities — or ceased them altogether — because of the Supreme Court’s Grokster decision.

With the legal winds currently blowing in its favor, the music industry is keen to crush the remaining file-sharing networks. Responding to the pressure, several P2P firms are talking now with record companies to realign their business models with the RIAA’s vision.

But experts say that while P2P networks with a presence in Western countries are feeling the chill of the Grokster ruling, piracy outside of the U.S. is expected to grow.
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Israel has become the newest battle ground in the war between the entertainment cartels and p2p communities, Nana Net-Life Magazine’s Nitzan Weidenfeld tells p2pnet.

“ALIS, the Israeli representative of the MPAA and RIAA, has taken a most aggressive approach to fighting piracy,” he says.

“Suing the most prominent P2P sites in Israel for 110k$ each, even those sites who dealt with release reviews only (and held no actual links to pirated material). Furthermore, ALIS has admitted to ‘monitoring the P2P networks for month, gathering information’ in order to ‘sue the sharers themselves’.”

Weidenfeld says it seems the RIAA and the MPAA are “using Israel as a test ground for their next acts around the world, it seems that the situation here is of much interest to file sharers everywhere.

“Four of the most popular file-trading websites were shut down yesterday after the court agreed to the request of the record companies and released a restraining order which ordered them to halt all activity,” he told us.

In an interview with Nana Net-Life, ALIS lawyer Eran Presenti who, with Sarah Presenti works for the cartels, “explains his world view and the arguments which convinced the court today to turn him into the official eliminator of some of the most popular file-trading websites in Israel”. And his observations include the hoary “it’s like drugs” line.

Meanwhile, eMule is apparently about to be singled out.
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Canada needs broadband across the country, especially in remote and isolated communities, says Canadian industry minister David Emerson.

Visiting Toronto as part of a speaking tour, yesterday, “Telecommunications and broadband technology are the most transformative technologies of our generation,” he said.

“It is the infrastructure that connects us with the global information economy. Canadians without high-speed access to the Internet will be increasingly out of the game… in terms of economic opportunities, education and even health care.”

ICT-related investments Canada and other countries are estimated to account for 75% percent of recent productivity improvements, said Emerson, but, “evidence shows we’re still falling short of the US.”

Broadband is already in hundreds of communities and the government has supported super broadband connectivity among schools, universities and research organizations in Canada and internationally, Emerson stated.

Unfortunately, however, “our high international ranking has begun slipping,” he said.

“It is absolutely essential that broadband access be extended further into remote and isolated communities. Without Internet access today, people and communities are simply not in the game. They’re not able to join the economic mainstream, or even to fully access opportunities for health care and education.”
Via p2pnet.net

While most audiophiles are only content owning gear by boutique manufacturers that no one has ever heard of, Sony is nevertheless making a play for high-end ears and their wallets with a new stereo component that can handle any shiny disc you shove in its mouth. With support for SACD, DVD Audio, and DVD Video (as well as that ancient relic, the CD), the new DVP-NS9100ES finally gives the millions of people (well, maybe not millions, but there are at least five that we know of) still sitting on the next-gen audio format fence yet another reason to take the plunge into surround sound music. The NS9100 will ship as a combo package with Sony’s new HDMI-compatible flagship receiver, the TA-DA9100ES, for the audiophile-friendly price of around eight-and-a-half large. Both units will be strutting their stuff in time for the holiday season.

Audio & Video online

Six major Hollywood studios have formed a joint venture to protect their movies from the threat of electronic theft. Motion Picture Laboratories will research and create new technologies to stop the unauthorised distribution of films, particularly via the internet. The company, also named Movielabs, will have offices in Los Angeles and a $30m (£16.6m) budget in its first two years.

The studios pooling their resources are Walt Disney, Sony, Paramount, Warner Bros, Universal and 20th Century Fox. Dan Glickman, president of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), called the venture “a smart investment”.

He said the non-profit company would “help the entertainment industry adopt new means of fighting piracy and protecting copyrights”.

Camcorder jam plan “There are thousands of new concepts floating around the hi-tech community about how to develop tools to fight piracy,” said Glickman. “Researching and developing these technologies now will help save the major studios and other motion picture producers and distributors money in the future.”

Planned projects include devising ways to jam camcorders being used to record movies in cinemas illegally, and developing methods of detecting illegal content sharing on peer-to-peer networks. The movie studios estimate they lose as much as $3.5bn (£1.9bn) a year due to the illegal copying of films.
Via ZeroPaid

LionShare 1.0, a p2p application dubbed the “academic Napster” and designed specifically to “promote responsible academic and research-oriented file sharing on a secure and private P2P network,” was released yesterday at the Internet2 meeting in Philadelphia.

It’s the “culmination of two years of Mellon-funded research and development by Penn State, Internet2 and Simon Fraser University in Canada,” says a Penn State post.

The university was the first to buy wholeheartedly into the Big Four record label cartel’s University Marketing Scheme whereby the cartel doesn’t sue students if they buy its product.

The idea is to turn the students into ‘consumers’ before they develop a liking for anything else; and, to scupper appplications such as LimeWire.

Penn emphasises that LionShare was funded by Mellon. However nowhere in its rambling report does Penn mention that LionShare couldn’t have been started in the first place without LimeWire GPL (General Public License) code.

“This shows there is a place for unconstrained file sharing,” LimeWire’s Greg Bildson told p2pnet a year ago.
“I’ve always been an advocate for using file sharing as a knowledge base in academic settings.”

“What is Google Secure Access? Google Secure Access is a downloadable client application that allows users to establish a more secure WiFi connection.”
That’s what Google says on its GSA FAQ.

But Inside Google begs to differ. “Google wants another crack at your entire internet traffic,” it says. “This time, its through the Google Secure Access client.”
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DRM can’t work, which isn’t stopping various companies one can only equate with the snake-oil salesmen of yore from peddling ‘copyright protection’ applications.
It’s really simple. Anything which can be seen and/or heard can be copied by one analog or digital means or another.
Period. Full stop.
The fact that members of the Big Four record label cartel are touting DRM (Digital Restriction Management) isn’t surprising. After all, they’re run by the same idiots who are suing their customers and refusing to accept p2p as a savior. And software giants such as Microsoft have to believe in it. They’re making it.

Now the movie studios have announced they’re going to throw $30 million down the drain, chasing DRM.

As we’ve observed before, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, it’s the unspeakable in full pursuit of the unattainable.

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It looks a little like a disposable gas lighter. Or maybe one of those candy dispensers with the funny heads, only without the heads.
But it’s neither. Instead, it’s Dell’s answer to Apple, and it’s called the DJ Ditty.

“Dell Inc. will start selling its first flash-based portable music player today, taking fresh aim at the popular iPods that dominate the market for digital tunes,” says the Cox News Service.

It’ll cost $100 with 512 megabytes of memory and works “most like the iPod Shuffle” but includes a menu screen “like the new iPod Nano”.

Dell also offers an FM tuner on its Ditty, something not available on either iPod model, and it works with subscription music services, adds Cox.

Mp3 rentals which disappear if you decide to opt out? Forget it.
Via p2pnet.net

P2PConsortium’s Roadblock will be a happy man today.
His favourite browser is now banner- and license-free.
Feeling the heat from Firefox, and on the heels of a one-day No Registration drive, Opera says the only money it’ll charge will be $29 for one year, English-only premium support via e-mail for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X.

Opera, which first made tabbed browsing popular, includes pop-up blocking, integrated searches, email, RSS Newsfeeds and IRC.

“Banner ads and user fees are estimated to have accounted for more than half of Opera’s revenues in 2004, but the company said it hopes to make that up through revenue-sharing arrangements with online giants like Google, eBay, and Amazon,” says Red Herring.

Every time an Opera user does a Google search and clicks on advertising posted by Google, Opera will get a percentage of the ad revenue, it says.
Via p2pnet.net

Some of you may recall a couple of HP rumor threads several days ago. The first post discussed an HP recall of the hw6515 and its lack of Windows Mobile 5 support and the 2nd post rebutted the recall. Both posts were based on external tips. Well, I just spoke with my contact with HP who told me that the hw6515 is set to be released at the beginning of October and it will NEVER support Windows Mobile 5… ever. As some of our own readers noted, the ROM limitations of the hw6515 were the constraining factor for WM5 support.

On the other hand, the hw6715 WILL ship with WM5, but instead of shipping at the beginning of next year, I’m now told that the release date has been broadened to “sometime 1st quarter of next year” which means we may not see the device until February or March.

PDAs / Handheld PCs OnLine

Six of the seven major Hollywood studios will jointly finance a multimillion-dollar research laboratory to “speed the development of new ways to foil movie pirates”.

Nonprofit (ahem) Motion Picture Laboratories “will begin operation later this year,” continues the New York Times. “According to Hollywood executives involved in its establishment, MovieLabs will have a budget of more than $30 million for its first two years. The idea arose out of Hollywood’s contention that the consumer electronics and information technology industries are not investing heavily or quickly enough in piracy-fighting technology.”

MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) boss Dan ‘Jedi’ Glickman is quoted as saying the new Wonder Organization will focus mainly on piracy prevention, “though it will be given some flexibility to expand its mission later”.
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The official download site for DVD ripper for Mac systems, MacTheRipper, is no more, says AfterDawn, quoting ripDifferent forums.

“The site hosting the official downloads, RipDifferent, received a ‘nasty letter’ from the Macrovision Corp threatening the site with legal action unless the download mirror was taken down,” says the post.

“The same fate happened to the developer of DVD Decrypter, but with his case, he signed a contract with Macrovision in order to cease the development of future versions of DVD Decrypter, whereas the author of MacTheRipper plans to continue his development efforts and is actively looking for new home to his product.”
AfterDawn points out the latest public version of the software is available from AfterDawn servers
Via p2pnet.net

Are Mashboxx and Grokster soon to be united to become Grockboxx?

Mashboxx, the much vaunted but so far unseen and untried corporate ‘p2p’ application, is reportedly making a move to take over the famous independent p2p application Grokster and it’ll be doubly ironic if the news is indeed true.

Not only did Grokster (almost as despised as Kazaa) star in the infamous Grokster vs MGM trial, but Mashboxx boss Wayne Rosso ran Grokster before he was lured away to become president of Blubster, based in Spain.

Soon afterwards, partnered by Madrid-based lawyers Ignacio Lucea and Lucas Sáenz du Buruaga, he jumped the fence to join the corporate music league with Mashboox, which also boasts Sony heavyweight Andy Lack as one of the core team members.

“Any deal would depend on the record labels dropping their pending legal claims against Grokster,” says the Wall Street Journal.

“To encourage the file-sharing companies and their users to go legitimate, the labels are seriously considering dropping such claims, some record executives say. In fact, say people close to the talks, Grokster is negotiating a settlement with the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America). The RIAA and Grokster declined to comment.”

We weren’t able to reach Rosso for a comment either.

But, “Even if the RIAA succeeds in shutting down or co-opting U.S.-based file-sharing services, illegal file sharing will likely continue,” the story correctly observes.

“Millions of users already have the software that allows them to participate in file-sharing networks, so even if the companies that distribute it close or start changing newly distributed copies of the software, it won’t necessarily affect those users’ habits.”

Meanwhile, in a far more important development than the possible Grokster Mashboxx deal, but which has so far received scant attention from the mainstream media, three American mothers have decided to defy the labels in their sue ‘em all product marketing scheme.

It’s a wave that could turn into tsunami.
Via p2pnet.net

Avaya this week bought Nimcat Networks, a maker of peer-to-peer IP phone software, for US$46 million.

The deal gives Avaya a different kind of telephony offering than its current IP PBX- and gateway-focused products, in that the Nimcat software runs only on IP phones. According to the companies, this technology allows desktop IP phones to communicate without the need for a centralized server or call-control box. The new technology could allow Avaya to integrate more peer-to-peer VoIP technology into its current product menu, while offering an uncomplicated VoIP package to smaller customers.

Phones running Nimcat’s nimX software include their own call-control, calling features and application software on the phone - such as call hold, forwarding, conferencing and voicemail. Most enterprise IP phones are required to connect to a central call server for call setup and access to voicemail. According to the company, setup of nimX phones only requires plugging them into the same LAN segment and configuring phone numbers and settings through a Web-based management interface via a PC.
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Tony Sanfilippo is of two minds when it comes to Google Inc.’s ambitious program to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet.

On the one hand, Sanfilippo credits the program for boosting sales of obscure titles at Penn State University Press, where he works. On the other, he’s worried that Google’s plans to create digital copies of books obtained directly from libraries could hurt his industry’s long-term revenues.

With Google’s book-scanning program set to resume in earnest this fall, copyright laws that long preceded the Internet look to be headed for a digital-age test.

The outcome could determine how easy it will be for people with Internet access to benefit from knowledge that’s now mostly locked up — in books sitting on dusty library shelves, many of them out of print.

To prevent the wholesale file-sharing that is plaguing the entertainment industry, Google has set some limits in its library project: Users won’t be able to easily print materials or read more than small portions of copyright works online.

But many publishers’ remain wary.
Via ZeroPaid

Red Hat Inc., an open source and Linux provider, said Friday it would join forces with International Business Machines Corp. to help accelerate the development and adoption of Linux-based solutions in emerging markets.

The two companies will provide software developers in China, India, Russia, Korea and other nations with the technical resources needed to help them port and certify their new applications on IBM software and hardware and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

As part of the move, Raleigh, N.C.-based Red Hat will provide independent software vendors with copies of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and will facilitate onsite registration for its technology partner program to help them certify their applications. Additionally, IBM will offer Linux skill-building tutorials on developerWorks.
Via ZeroPaid

The Motion Picture Laboratories Inc. (aka MovieLabs) will begin operation later this year as a nonprofit consortium later this year. MovieLabs will have a budget of more than $30 million for its first two years according to Hollywood executives. The idea arose out of Hollywood’s contention that the consumer electronics and information technology industries are not investing heavily or quickly enough in piracy-fighting technology.

Since 1988, CableLabs has spearheaded pivotal innovations in the cable television industry which quickened the adoption of fiber optics, cable modems, telephony and digital video. It is the CableLabs business model that MovieLabs wish to emulate. Dan Glickman, chairman of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) said, “Hollywood’s version will begin with a more modest mandate. It will focus principally on piracy prevention, though it will be given some flexibility to expand its mission later.”

“We’re not going to research how to make certain types of movies; that’s not what we’re talking about here. Our highest priority is protecting the integrity of our product.” Glickman stated. He had been pressed by the studio chairman to set up MovieLabs, an idea that had been on the drawing board for several years.

Thanks to the ways of delivering video to consumers proliferating at a rapid clip, MovieLabs will go into a broad range of study. Initial projects planned for MovieLabs include:

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In the growing attempt to convey legitimacy and wholesomeness to the powers that be, P2P developers have banded together to form two distinct lobby groups; P2P United and the DCIA (Distributed Computing
Industry Association.) Most of the major commercial P2P developers have aligned themselves with these organizations, while open source developers have not.

This has helped contribute to a rift in the P2P community – a tale of two cities if you will. On one side are the “P2P purists” who believe file-sharing should be in no way associated with commercialism, while on the other side are those seek fortune through P2P. This rift is further expanded by the fact that perceived untrustworthy P2P applications such as Kazaa and Grokster are members of the DCIA.

However many can appreciate the balance that a P2P company can strike by being commercialized yet still avoiding the evil pitfalls of Kazaa and Grokster. Lobby members such as MetaMachine and its eDonkey2000 software have replicated Google’s “do no evil” approach to promoting a free, commercialized product yet still making the experience enjoyable to the end user.

MetaMachine has also taken the unique approach of dual membership with the DCIA and P2P United. Although Grokster is also a member of both, its significance and importance in the P2P world has been reduced to providing legal precedent and being made an example of – not exactly a position a commercial enterprise wishes to be in. The move, according to MetaMachine president Sam Yagan, is aimed to foster cooperation between the two organizations and help promote P2P technology on capital hill.

“P2P United has accomplished a great deal in the two-plus years since eDonkey joined as a charter member,” Sam told Slyck.com. “I’ve always said that there’s no reason that P2PU and DCIA should be rival organizations — hopefully our cross-membership will lead to more cooperation and more synergies.”

The timing of this move is interesting, considering MetaMachine was the recipient of a September 13th RIAA letter writing campaign. Last week, the RIAA sent letters to several popular P2P companies, stating, “We demand that you immediately cease-and-desist from enabling and inducing the infringement of RIAA member sound recordings. If you wish to discuss pre-litigation resolution of these claims against you, please contact us immediately.”
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We’ve been hearing about the Motorola i930, Nextel’s way overdue Windows Mobile-powered smartphone, for literally years now, and it looks like we might finally be getting close to a release. Nah, Nextel hasn’t confirmed anything like a date or a price (unlike last May, when they seemed pretty sure it’d be out before the end of the year), but the phone did just score that oh-so-necessary FCC approval, something which usually (but not always) means a release is around the corner. In the meantime we can all just grumble about how this phone is probably going to be instantly out of date as soon as it hits retail.
Via engadget.com

Cellular Phones OnLine

The ability of IPv6 to allow worldwide, high-quality video communications is to be demonstrated in an experiment by China Netcom subsidiary Asia Netcom.

“The experiment, spearheaded by the WIDE (Widely Integrated Distributed Environment) Project, a consortium working on practical research and development of Internet-related technologies, will set up high-quality video links between Amsterdam, Aichi and Beijing,” says ChinaTechNews.

Asia Netcom will provide an end-to-end IPv6 link between Tokyo and Beijing using capacity on its own subsea network and through a 155Mbps circuit between Hong Kong and Beijing from its parent, says the story, adding, “Asia Netcom is one of the first operators in the region to launch commercial IPv6-based services and is offering an end-to-end IPv6 video streaming service with partner, NEC.”

Late last year, Communist China claimed a world-first with the largest Internet Protocol Version 6 network anywhere.
Via p2pnet.net

A bill for new copyright legislation that’s currently before the Finnish parliament wouldn’t make it illegal to copy music onto mp3 players for personal use, says the Helsingin Sanomat. However, if it’s passed, “it could set up a few obstacles,” it says, going on:

“Jukka Liedes, the Ministry of Education & Culture official who headed preparation of the proposed legislation, says that the breaking of copy protection for the copying of the content of a sound or video recording for personal use would be prohibited.

“At the same time, there would be no specific criminal sanctions for such an act, but a record company would be entitled to demand compensation for the illegal copying, if the matter came to light.”

But the “breaking of copy protection to allow the performance of an original CD or DVD (for example on another device in the home or car)” would be allowed.

Downloading “illegal music files” would be banned, “but once again this would not be subject to legal sanctions, according to Liedes,” says Helsingin Sanomatm adding”

“The copyright holder could nevertheless demand compensation from transgressors.”
Via p2pnet.net

by Drew Wilson
Some trends stick around while others undergo massive changes. Cachelogic released a study recently on just what is really going on in the world of P2P.

In the recent analysis, CacheLogic stated that they used a “unique, layer-7 Deep Packet Inspection”. They said that they provide “insight and analysis to industry leading analyst groups and press upon request” and “provides previously unseen Internet traffic analysis”.

Cache logic has noted that in 2004, and the first half of 2005, they saw a period of mass disruption and change in the P2P (Peer-2-Peer) world. The 2004 study showed:

BitTorrent as the largest P2P network, in terms of data transfer, after the legal pressure surrounding Kazaa.

A shift in demand away from music towards video.

They also noted the following:

By the end of 2004, BitTorrent was accounting for as much as 30% of all Internet traffic.

December 2004 saw a crackdown on the major BitTorrent sites (Suprnova and others).

Interestingly, the MGM vs. Grokster case did not result in a rapid decline in P2P usage.

Launch of numerous legal alternative services utilizing P2P technology, such as PeerImpact, Mashboxx and iMP.

P2P still represented 60% of Internet Traffic at the end of 2004. It outstrips every other communication and distribution protocol and is still growing. It was compared to E-mail, FTP and the Web in general. The report also had a breakdown of 29 countries in terms of P2P bandwidth usage by percentage.
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Artists earning their money in the corporate music industry are in dire straits because of file sharing, claim the members of the Big Four record label cartel.

But it’s now a given that when the labels say black, think white and to confirm that, the BMI, Big Music’s US performing rights organization representing more than 300,000 songwriters, composers and publishers, is reporting in excess of $728 million for fiscal 2004-2005, an increase of more than 8.3% over the previous year.

This marks the first time that any copyright organization in the world has crossed the threshold of $700 million in revenues in performing rights collections, brags Del Bryant, president and ceo.
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Album Beyond The Stars Ivory Tower (Ger)

Songs: Silence Secret In Me Foreboding Game Of Life Peeping Tom Beyond The Stars When Thoughts Are Running Wild Flight Into The Self Treehouse Theme Treehouse

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