Thursday, July 17, 2003

DIY CD piracy. Want to really piss off the RIAA? Just start up your own CD piracy business using Kanguru's new CD mass duplicator, which can burn up to 100 CDs at the press of a button. The Autoloader 100 has a 52x burner and can pump out a hundred discs in about five hours. Read... [Gizmodo] Wonder what the sentences would be for something like this? If you get 5 years for 1 song, you could go to jail for life for this... 12:03:59 PM    comment []

Upload a File, Go to Prison. Two congressmen introduce a bill to criminalize the uploading of copyright works to peer-to-peer networks. The penalty: five years in prison and $250,000 in fines. Critics say the law goes too far. By Katie Dean. [Wired News] OK, let me get this straight:  you upload a song on a P2P network and cheat some record company out of $1 worth of content and you get 5 years in the Federal Pen; you cheat thousands or hundreds of thousands of people out of BILLIONS of $$ (a la Enron/Worldcom/Tyco/<insert corrupt corporation here>) and you either get away totally clean (most likely outcome) or get the same 5 years in the Pen.  I'm glad to see that we're focused on the issues that really matter. [Jon Israelson's Blog] YES! Who says the recording industry isn't a powerful lobbyist? 12:00:21 PM    comment []

Severe Windows security hole patched. All versions, big trouble [The Register] Nice RPC bug. This affects the "Trustworthy" 2003 server, too. Hope the Homeland Security office uses a firewall on a different platform to protect all their new Windows machines. 8:40:34 AM    comment []

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