In what’s definitely a “News of the Weird” piece the RIAA is going to actually sue the deceased. Couldn’t make that one up if I tried.
RIAA defendant dies, heirs given 60 days to grieve before depositions

And here I thought we staties were the ones on the cutting edge of cruel and unusual copyright penalties!
Seems that the French Parliament bowed to corporate interest and enshrined their 180 degree turn from their anti-discriminatory copyright stance I talked about a bit earlier.
The long and short of it is that the lawmakers in France […]

Ever see that nifty law that states you can’t sell someone a Bill of Sales? I can’t recall which one it is right now (if you’re aware, please share it). I’m assuming there might be laws against selling someone a document stating you’ve sold them nothing in other places, too.
Anyway. How’s this relate […]

The RIAA is claiming victory on it’s running war with it’s own customers.  They’ve finally vanquished the beast of possible purchasers, and with CD sales declining feel they’ve won.
I’ve got to say, I’m sure all the label artists now making less money have to feel vindicated that they’ve paid for this.  Nothing like paying someone […]

Looks like AllofMP3 (popular, legal Russian music download site) suffered some downtime over the weekend.  It’s come back up now, but there’s rumors floating of a Russian crackdown on anything the IP markets don’t like.  Civilizing or somesuch, I’m sure.
At any rate, El Reg is covering the story and promises to update once they’ve got […]

Basically, the French lawmakers have dropped all the provisions of the law that made it fair and left in all the provisions that make it utterly draconian.  I say we should skip all the dressing and go straight to corporal punishment for copyright infringment.
Who needs to imprison or execute rapists and murderers when there are […]

I’m starting to get back into the swing of writing with a bit of the op-ed on Linux.  This piece goes into why Freespire doesn’t pose a moral dillema and why no one really seems to care one way or the other.
PCBurn - PCBurn Editorial: Are Freespires Proprietary Packages a Problem?

Chalk up a loss for the RIAA in their fight against America.  Seems they didn’t even bother responding to a court order in the case against Brittany Chan to provide a functional way to get her the Guardian Ad Litem they insisted on.
In light of the inexplicable lack of response from the RIAA on the […]

Microsoft has a surprise for “pirates” alright.  It’s a surprise involving the fact that there’s nothing to “pirate” in Vista.
If you were trying to stop people from infringing on your licensing scheme, what would you do? You’d disable the ability of said people to use your software, right? Or at least give it […]

It seems that John Doe defendents are banding together to respond to the RIAA’s scattergun lawsuits.  If enough people jointly file in defense it might be cost effective enough to actually fight the overly litigious recording industry.
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