Jun 21, 2003 | audio, DRM, file_sharing
Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said at a hearing on Tuesday that he would favor legislation authorizing copyright holders to engage in wide scale destruction of computers that have downloaded music files or other copyrighted...
Mar 10, 2003 | audio, DRM, file_sharing
A quick followup to my item on March 1. You’ll recall that the RIAA had placed its heavily attacked web site in the hands of a disabled individual doing his first web hosting from his house. Not surprisingly, it was immediately taken out of commission by hackers. It’s...
Jan 26, 2003 | DRM, file_sharing
At the end of the year Hilary Rosen will step down as chief of the Recording Industry Association of America. She bears a great deal of responsibility for its reign of terror, but there’s no particular reason to think that it will behave itself any more after she’s...
Jan 10, 2003 | DRM, file_sharing, law
The Digital Millennium Copyright Act was passed in 1998 after strenuous lobbying by Hollywood studios, record labels and other intellectual property holders. They argued that new copyright protections were necessary to prevent the Internet from becoming a forum for...
