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Last updated: April 6, 2007 6:15:48 PM Pacific Time
News.Com: Australian high court: PS2 chip mod OK. But the Federal Court ruled in favor of Stevens in a 2002 decision, which found that mod chips were not in breach of copyright because they did not circumvent measures Sony had put in place to prevent illegal copying of their games. Simply put, while mod chips could allow you to play copied games or overseas titles, they did not actually make the copying of PS2 games possible. PC World: SanDisk Puts Copy Controls on Flash Cards. Adding DRM will motivate providers of music, games, movies, and other content to sell those products for mobile phones, either as cards sold in retail stores or as downloadable files that can be put on a TrustedFlash card, said Eli Harari, president and CEO of SanDisk. PC World: Nokia Puts Music Phone on Hold. Nokia had originally planned to launch the N91 for the Christmas season with DRM software from the Open Mobile Alliance, upgrading to the Windows DRM next year. However, instead the company began accelerating the inclusion of Windows DRM into the device... Wired News: A Sci-Fi Future Awaits the Court. Bruce Schneier. Privacy questions will arise from government actions in the "War on Terror"; they will arise from the actions of corporations and individuals. They will include questions of surveillance, profiling and search and seizure. And the decisions of the Supreme Court on these questions will have a profound effect on society. NY Times: File-Sharing Services Seek Pact With Record Studios. At least five online file-sharing companies have started trying to reach an accord with the music industry to convert the free trading of copyrighted music on their networks to paid services, according to several recording industry and file-sharing executives. Technology Review: Will Windows Upgrade Hand Power to Big Media? The idea is to make it easier to download HDTV-quality video to your desktop or laptop. But, in the process, critics fear you will lose something: the freedom to use whatever hardware or software you want. So what you'll hear about Vista depends on whom you ask. EE Times: COW-ing the public with a broadcast flag. The Federal Communications Commission was planning to insinuate this copy-protection software into all new broadcast content until a federal court this year said they lacked jurisdiction. This ruling has only redoubled COW efforts to enlist regulatory agencies in its sacred mission of squeezing every quarter 'til the eagle grins. NY Times: Australian Court Rules Kazaa Has Violated Copyrights. The ruling culminates an 18-month legal battle between the recording industry and the Australian-based owners of Kazaa, who said they planned to appeal. The ruling also complemented a United States Supreme Court ruling in June that Internet file-sharing companies like Kazaa could be held liable for copyright piracy. NY Times: Google Library Database Is Delayed. But a publishing trade association called the opt-out offer inadequate, saying it did not address the main concern of its members: the belief that the entire program, the Google Print Library Project, is built on a foundation of purposeful copyright violation. Schneier on Security: More Lynn/Cisco Information. By attempting to muzzle Lynn, the two companies ensured that 1) the vulnerability was the biggest story of the conference, and 2) some group of hackers would turn the vulnerability into exploit code just to get back at them.
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