AT&T commits censorship on a Pearl Jam concert, and then tries to allay concerns over the need for net neutrality.   AT&T’s webcast of Lollapalooza on Saturday included a performance by Pearl Jam that was somewhat abbreviated. The band was doing a rendition of Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall” and Vedder threw in some ...

It's hackers latest gift to Microsoft and the DMCA.   The next cycle in the game between hackers and Digital Rights Management is finally here. Hackers created a program called FairUse4m that cracks Microsoft’s Digital Rights Management. This is the second (or third?) time it’s been cracked. The first version of FairUse4M came out and ...

Yesterday US based Internet Radio stations staged a day of silence in protest of a new royalty rate hike. But the rate increase really exists for the sole purpose of killing Internet radio and has been approved by the US Copyright Royalty Board. The scheme was masterminded by Sound Exchange a group that works in conjunction with the RIAA to ...

  Tanya Andersen is an single, disabled mother of a nine year old girl from Oregon. Blamed for downloading some gangsta’ rap back in ’05 on Kazaa she was promptly sued by the RIAA. This particular lawsuit of the RIAA’s was widely seen as a sort of rallying cry for the Fair Use crowd in search of digital sanity. The RIAA took a ...

Beware the Best Buy boy.  The massive electronics “big box” chain is on the wrong end of a lawsuit this morning, the result of allegations that the store used an imitation web site to deceive customers and reap higher profits for its wares.  The Connecticut attorney general has called Best Buy’s activity “a bait-and-switch-plus ...

Everyone’s favorite right-wing lawyer Jack Thompson is at it again.  This time the rather infamous anti-video game violence crusader is attacking Microsoft over its mega-anticipated Halo 3, set for release this September.  Thompson is most “fired up” over the game’s “Mature” ESRB rating and the threat of sale to gamers under the age of ...

Apple, Microsoft and Adobe were served Cease and Desist orders from Media Rigths Technologies (MRT) and BlueBeat.com. The companies that brought us iPod, iTunes and Windows Vista Operating System are accused of failing to include copy protection measures in their products.   Adobe is being added to the C and D and potential litigation ...

Digg continues to risk a lawsuit from the AACS-LA by keeping the HD content hacking code up for over five days. The offending hex code appearing in the title of a blog post by Kevin Rose and has had over thirty six thousand diggs. But the real story transcends Digg and the AACS-LA’s cease and desist order. Digg and Kevin Rose have stood up for a ...

For those cubicle creatures stuck in front of a computer all day – a la Office Space – online radio has become a buffer between the worker and monotony, even insanity.    One of the most popular streaming music sites is the bandwidth baron Pandora.com, which allows users to build custom playlists by first entering an artist or ...

Gizmo is calling it the Digg Riot, the AACS calls it illegal. Articles on the Internet are publishing hex codes that compromise HDCP, the content protection DRM lorded over by the committee known as AACS. Digg pulled a story that had published the codes and saw its user base go crazy. Digg users responded by posting and digging pages worth ...