Parents might want to tell music fans heading off to school this fall that universities don't necessarily protect them from anti-piracy lawsuits. "A federal judge has ordered Michigan State University to produce the identities of nine people accused of using the campus computer system to illegally make music available to others via the Internet," the Detroit Free Press reports, and MSU has made no … [Read more...] about File-sharing at school
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What our kids could’ve taught the media industry
Correction: What our kids could've taught the media industry if it had been listening rather than suing them, that is. In his keynote at the Edinburgh International Television Festival (edited video from The Telegraph), Kevin Spacey – star of House of Cards, the first digitally distributed drama series to earn a major Emmy nomination (it got nine nominations, Variety reported) – referred to … [Read more...] about What our kids could’ve taught the media industry
Supreme Court justice’s P2P security breach
No, Justice Breyer wasn't using a file-sharing network himself. But a guy at his investment firm was on LimeWire and inadvertently shared "the names, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of about 2,000 of the firm's clients, including a number of high-powered lawyers and Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer," the Washington Post reports. This isn't just about file-sharing in the … [Read more...] about Supreme Court justice’s P2P security breach
Generation gap on copyright, P2P
When New York Times tech writer David Pogue gives talks on copyright law and ethics he has a little interactive segment where he describes lots of situations involving copying songs, CDs, DVDs, broadcast movies, etc., and asks for a show of hands from people who think this or that situation is ok, Pogue writes. He's illustrating all the shades of gray - or at least people's perceptions of the … [Read more...] about Generation gap on copyright, P2P
MPAA’s college black list
The film industry’s trade association has announced its Top 25 movie piracy schools, as well as its support for the Curb Illegal Downloading on College Campuses Act of 2007, ArsTechnica.com reports. “This is a page straight out of the RIAA’s playbook,” according to ArsTechnica (see the RIAA’s latest anti-student-file-sharer news here). Columbia, Penn, B.U., UCLA, and Purdue top the MPAA’s … [Read more...] about MPAA’s college black list