RIAA declares war on US Navy

Posted on Sunday November 24, 2002 in Internet | Media | Law & Crime
A US newspaper said that an RIAA inspired raid lead to the seizure of 100 US Navy midshipmens' computers at the Naval Academy which allegedly contain copyrighted music and films. If any of the computers do contain illegally copied material, the midshipmen may face a court martial. Come on, this is insane!
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MTV producing movie on Napster founder

Posted on Friday October 04, 2002 in Movies | Internet
MTV said it's struck a deal with Shawn Fanning to produce a movie telling the tale of Napster's rise and fall. I love those post-teenage computer genius stories like Antitrust!
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Guide to Instant Message

Posted on Friday September 27, 2002 in Humor | Internet
A funny guide to Instant Messaging.
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UPC-chello knows about broadband

Posted on Monday September 09, 2002 in Humor | Internet
The happy folks at UPC-chello belgium obviously know that broadband connectivity is just like many other good things in life : size matters! (Thanks PAC)
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XBox online 3 months early with Linux

Posted on Monday August 26, 2002 in Internet | Games & Toys | UNIX
Microsoft's XBox Live service has been pre-empted by a Linux-based web-server invented by a group of European programmers.
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Anti-Spam Legislation Opposed By Powerful Penis-Enlargement Lobby

Posted on Wednesday July 17, 2002 in Humor | Internet
Efforts to pass legislation restricting Internet "spam"óunsolicited mass e-mails usually for advertising purposesóare meeting with strong resistance from the nation's powerful penis-enlargement lobby. Fantastic!
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A Guide to File-Sharing Alternatives

Posted on Tuesday July 02, 2002 in Music | Internet
How to survive without AudioGalaxy?
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AudioGalaxy R.I.P.

Posted on Thursday June 27, 2002 in Music | Internet | Web
A programmer of AudioGalaxy (RIP) tells the whole story on the best music sharing network ever created until now. (via YABON)
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Les opÈrateurs craignent que les WLAN concurrencent l'UMTS [fr]

Posted on Tuesday June 25, 2002 in Technology | Internet
Could WLAN technologies kill UMTS?
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Audiogalaxy runs up white flag

Posted on Friday June 21, 2002 in Music | Internet | Software
The RIAA finally took down AudioGalaxy, it looks like this is the end of the one of the best music sharing network. One solution could be to join the freshly created AudioGalaxy room on the SoulSeek P2P network. The soulseek seems to be down at the moment so use the Google cache.
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Fascist Spam (in french)

Posted on Friday May 03, 2002 in Internet | Politics
Those french fascists guys are not just mean motherf*ckers, they're also rotten spammers! And I even received one... All DNS admins should just dd lepen.tv from their name database...
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