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 Apr 24 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld
Want to know the biggest problem with the RIAA’s relentless pursuit of file swappers? In the age of the Internet, the courts are decades behind the times.
dan tynan on Apr 20 2009 | Filed under: Copyrights and wrongs, Cringley, Infoworld
Despite big fines and prison time, the Pirate Bay four remain defiant. Even if Hollywood manages to sink these Bit Torrent trackers, there’s an entire fleet waiting to take their place.
dan tynan on Jul 07 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field blog.)
The Bush Administration’s anti-recession tactics have given rise to an unexpected beneficiary: the Internet pørn industry. According to the Adult Internet Market Research Company, adult sites have been engorged with sales during the normally limp summer months. One popular clothing optional site surveyed its members [...]
dan tynan on Jun 01 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Da Web, Infoworld, Privacy
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld’s Notes From the Field Blog.)
Throttle this. Bit Torrent blocking Comcast got an education in the ways of the Net this week when hackers gained access to the ISP’s domain name records and redirected Comcast.net traffic to a vandalized site. Teenage hackers with the handles "Defiant" and "EBK" pwned the [...]
