I want to hear this!
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RIAA Must Divulge Expenses-Per-Download
Posted by kdawson on Tuesday November 27, @12:34AM from the treble-damages-are-for-wimps dept. The Courts Music
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "The Court has ordered UMG Recordings, Warner Bros. Records, Interscope Records, Motown, and SONY BMG to disclose their expenses-per-download to the defendant's lawyers, in UMG v. Lindor, a case pending in Brooklyn. The Court held that the expense figures are relevant to the issue of whether the RIAA's attempt to recover damages of $750 or more per 99-cent song file, is an unconstitutional violation of due process."
It all comes down to one man who says, “No!”
Why the RIAA may be afraid of targeting Harvard students
By Eric Bangeman | Published: November 26, 2007 - 10:46PM CT
Earlier this month, the RIAA announced that it had sent off yet another wave of prelitigation settlement letters to college campuses across the US. This time, the recording industry targeted 16 schools, including almost the entire membership of the Ivy League. There was one notable Ivy school missing from the roster, one that has failed to appear in any of the RIAA's press releases: Harvard.
... There may be another factor at work here: hostility towards the RIAA's campaign on the part of Harvard Law School professors Charles Nesson and John Palfrey, who run the law school's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Responding to the RIAA's claim that its litigation strategy has "invigorated a meaningful conversation on college campuses about music theft, its consequences and the numerous ways to enjoy legal music," the profs called on Harvard to not betray the "trust and privacy" of its students.
... Should the RIAA decide to send prelitigation settlement letters to Harvard, chances are good that 1) the letters will not be passed on, and 2) some of the best and brightest at Harvard Law School will get involved in a big way. That doesn't look too appealing, especially when the campaign isn't going as smoothly as the RIAA would like.
Automating “cooperation”
http://techdirt.com/articles/20071126/031729.shtml
MPAA Trying To Rootkit Universities?
from the how-nice-of-them dept
Just as the MPAA is strongly pushing for a new law that would require universities to take proactive measures to prevent unauthorized file sharing from happening on university networks, the group is also apparently pushing certain universities to install some MPAA-sponsored software to monitor network usage. However, after examining this "toolkit" some are noticing that it appears a lot more like a "rootkit" than a "toolkit." Depending on how a university's network is configured, it could actually reveal a lot of private info to the outside world. The software also phones home to the MPAA, despite promising not to report back any information. There are a few other oddities as well. While it could password protect some of the exposed content, it never prompts the user to do so -- and, at the same time, it disables logging who accesses the pages revealing all the info. While it could all be a coincidence, effectively the MPAA has made it so that it (and others) can spy on university network usage without being tracked in many cases. People in the article note the similarity to the Sony rootkit situation, where software designed to "protect" actually opened up huge security vulnerabilities.
Also points to several videos...
http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20071126182853855
Recent Research Commissioned by Microsoft on Data Governance and Role Collaboration
Monday, November 26 2007 @ 06:28 PM EST Contributed by: PrivacyNews News Section: Internet & Computers
Hi, I am Brendon Lynch, Director of Privacy Strategy in Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group. Among other things, my team’s work includes engagement with external privacy stakeholders and advising Microsoft product groups on data governance strategies.
I wanted to highlight some interesting research we recently conducted which explores how different roles within organizations are collaborating to protect personal information.
Source - Microsoft Privacy Team: The Data Privacy Imperative (blog)
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