dan tynan on Aug 12 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Recent rulings against Real Networks and Microsoft reinforce a painful truth: The law can no longer keep up with technology.
dan tynan on Jul 31 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
File swapper Joel Tenenbaum fought the law, and the law won. Now a jury must decide how much he owes the RIAA.
dan tynan on May 01 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Google, Infoworld, Twit or Tweet
Got an opinion on Google profiles, Swedish pirates, our antiquated legal system or Twitter’s swine flu obsession? You’re not alone. Here’s the best of what Cringesters had to say on these and other topics.
dan tynan on Jan 05 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
The recording industry has fired some of its online spies — but that doesn’t mean they’re about to get all warm and cuddly. Cringe has the scoop.
dan tynan on Dec 15 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Harvard Law School is taking on the recording industry in a case that challenges the constitutionality of their legal tactics. So long, RIAA, it’s been lousy to know ya.
dan tynan on Nov 20 2008 | Filed under: Computerworld, Copyrights and wrongs, DMCA Madness, Music, politics
Your tax dollars are not only saving billionaire bankers from their own bad habits, they’re also helping to bail out the recording industry. Does the RIAA really truly need our help? To quote Amy Winhouse, “no no no.”
dan tynan on Oct 08 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Don’t expect to be making legal copies of your DVDs any time soon. A judge has extended the order banning sales of the RealDVD copying software. Hollywood is happy, but are consumers getting a raw deal?
dan tynan on Oct 02 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, DMCA Madness, Video
Well, that didn’t take long. One day after RealNetworks releases its DVD copying software, lawsuits are filed. Who’s right, who’s wrong, and where do movie fans fit in? Cringely has some thoughts.
dan tynan on Sep 26 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, DMCA Madness, Infoworld
Regular readers will remember Jammie Thomas, the Minneapolis mom who was ordered to pay $222,000 in damages to the RIAA last October – the only case to ever reach a jury in the recording industry’s ongoing war on its own customers.
That ruling made everyone look bad: Thomas and her attorney, the judge and [...]
dan tynan on Aug 28 2008 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, DMCA Madness, Da Web, Infoworld, Things that suck
The feds have arrested a 27-year-old blogger for posting unreleased Guns N’ Roses songs to his site, and Cringely is steamed. Read on to find out what’s making him so mad.
dan tynan on Jul 21 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, DMCA Madness, Da Web, Infoworld, Music, Video, Web 2.0, youtube
After years of terrorizing its best customers, the RIAA may soon be brought to its knees — by a handful of angry moms. Would you mess with them? Cringely advises against it.
