Sunday, January 19, 2003

News.com: ISPs should pay for music swapping  "We will hold ISPs more accountable," said Hillary Rosen, chairman and CEO the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), in her keynote speech at the Midem music conference on the French Riviera. "Let's face it. They know there's a lot of demand for broadband simply because of the availability (of file-sharing)," Rosen said. I think holding service providers accountable for illegal activity performed when using their services is just goofy. What's next - having telcos be accountable for illegal fax transmissions of copyrighted material? 1:30:38 PM    comment [] News.com: Microsoft unveils new CD copy protection Microsoft believes it may have come up with a solution. The new software is called the Windows Media Data Session Toolkit. It enables music labels to lay songs onto a copy-controlled CD in multiple layers, one that would permit normal playback on a stereo and a PC. The PC layer, laid digitally on the same disc, can be modified by the content provider, so that they could prevent, for example, burning songs onto another CD, said David Fester, general manager, digital media entertainment for Microsoft. 11:26:08 AM    comment []

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