Michael Robertson, CEO of software company Lindows, has revealed himself as the formerly anonymous donor of $200,000 in prize money in a contest to translate the Linux operating system to Microsoft's Xbox video game console.
posted by cheapprick on January 03, 2003 @ 12:26pm
Studio execs remain on the warpath. As movies are increasingly broadcast and sold in digital format, Tinseltown execs are panicked that consumers will make infinite numbers of perfect digital copies and share them over the Internet.
posted by cheapprick on January 03, 2003 @ 08:20am
"It's obvious that they don't get the Web, and they don't get technology, or they'd understand how to protect their own website," said Wall Street systems administrator Anthony Negil.
posted by cheapprick on January 03, 2003 @ 08:25am
The do-gooders have found a new cause for 2003: Saving the Internet from the private interests intent on mucking up the cyber landscape. Considering that 40 percent of all U.S. citizens have been online for more than three years and that most are able to find the information they seek when surfing the Web (according to a Dec. 29 Pew study on the Internet and American life) that's a curious cause.
posted by cheapprick on January 02, 2003 @ 09:59am
Microsoft is set to release its first mainstream consumer software application protected by product activation, in what could be a first step toward expanding use of the antipiracy technology.
In anticipation of the release of the Gnutella2 specs, I've dusted off the cover of my old C manual and begun work on Shinobu, which is indeed a Gnutella2 client for Linux. I'm in no way planning a Shareaza clone; heck, the thing won't even run in X11, it uses the ncurses library (visit the website below to see what ncurses looks like).
Anyone who can program in C is invited to help work on the project. Bonus points if you actually use Linux.
posted by cheapprick on December 31, 2002 @ 01:51pm
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor granted a Christmas wish to Hollywood last week when she issued a stay temporarily halting a California Supreme Court decision that limited the jurisdiction of a lawsuit filed against a Texas programmer who posted to the Web computer code designed to bypass copyright protections of DVDs.
posted by Anonymous on December 30, 2002 @ 11:51pm
Two weeks ago, Ian Clarke, creator of Freenet, quietly released an early-prototype of a new file-sharing application which appears to be quite a departure from his previous work.
Ever wish you were an Oscar Meyer Weiner? Do you like cheese? Then you have much in common with the RIAA, at least according to their website earlier today.
Just short two years in existence, JXTASun's peer to peer project has become a enterprise developers dream. XML-based protocols make-up JXTA, creating a wealth of possibilities for developers interested in creating complex P2P systems. (JXTA Protocols Specification)
posted by HeadHunter on December 25, 2002 @ 12:58pm
The Recording Industry Association of America has been nominated for the Internet Villian award by the Internet Service Provider Award Association "for supporting 'right to hack' proposals and other unworkable solutions to curb copyright abuse"
