So Ars Technica had an article on a recent conference hosted by Vice President Biden. The conference brought together content companies and federal law enforcement to discuss “ways to combat piracy in this rapidly changing technological age”. Interestingly enough no one from the community or academics where invited. It seems every time [...]

The RIAA in a recent court case reiterated their past claims that ripping songs or making a copy of a CD for your own use that you own is stealing. Clearly this seems wrong to me. The RIAA chooses to live in this pretend world where the recording industry can make music on [...]

I was listening to TWiT 105 and Leo brought up a great point that maybe the only way to get record companies to understand the importance of Internet radio is to let it die. Clearly the music companies or at least the brain dead lawyers they have collecting for them do not understand or [...]

Slashdot has a story that Sony is suing the vendor that supplied the root kit that caused a media firestorm in 2005. Seems they want back the $12 million they spend fighting off all the states and other costs. It will be interesting to see if anything comes out of this trial that [...]

The Attorney General Albert Gonzales is proposing that we should start punishing people for “attempted” piracy. What is attempted piracy? Is it attempted piracy if I rip a DVD or CD so that I can place it on my personal video/audio player? Is it piracy if I violate the DMCA by circumventing [...]