U.S. wants end to Allofmp3 spinoffs
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Politicians and trade officials are still pressuring the nation to shut down "illegal" Web sites and to align its intellectual property laws with "international standards."
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AllofMP3.com will likely be shut down by Russian authorities as part of its entrance into the World Trade Organization (WTO). But the site is fighting back, providing a legal argument for its continued operation.
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Update: The Recording Industry Association of America purges nasty file-sharing clients' ads from a recent site reportedly planned as part of a new anti-piracy campaign. In Listening Post.
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BRUSSELS : The United States wants Europe to end all future government support for Boeing&#39;s arch-rival in commercial plane-making, Airbus Industrie, or face legal action, a senior official said.
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A revolutionary plan that would  effectively legitimize file-sharing here has been slammed as "a  pipe dream" by Canadian labels.
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All for one A community driven project for Ruby source code to run natively on Microsoft's .NET framework has shut down, faced by progress from an official Microsoft effort.â¦Learn &amp; Contribute, Live &amp; Online - The Register Debates Green Computing
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Blog: In an Internet interview, a programmer says increased media attention may force the MPack project to shut down.
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UK mesh pioneer taken out of administration
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NBC Universal is ready to kill off digital distribution of its programs through iTunes.
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'Vertical integration' and cross-promotion in the TV landscape is prompting calls to limit media consolidation.
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(InfoWorld) - U.S. government antitrust regulators have asked Intel Corp. and STMicroelectronics NV to provide more information about theirÂ plan to spin off their flash memory unit into a new company, the vendors said Thursday. The U.S. Federal Trade Commission made the request as part of its regulatory review in an effort to ensure the deal does not violate antitrust laws, according to Intel. If FTC investigators approve the terms, Intel and ST will be able to close the deal after a 30-day waiting period, the company said. "These kinds of transactions are reviewed by the FTC and it's not unusual for them to come back and ask for more information," said Intel spokesman Tom Beermann. Intel plans to comply with the request, but gave no deadline for providing the new information. "As part of the regulatory review, they do look at antitrust issues. This is a fairly complicated deal because there are three partners and there are different types of technology, and it is a fairly large deal," Beermann said. Intel and STMicroelectronics will share ownership of the new semiconductor business with ST holding a 48.6 percent stake, Intel owning 45.1 percent and private equity firm Francisco Partners LP holding 6.3 percent. The new company will be based in Switzerland and incorporated in the Netherlands. It will compete against flash vendors including Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Spansion Inc. Intel's main chip rival AMD spun off its flash unit in December 2005 to create Spansion. Intel and ST announced plans for the new business in May and expect it to employ about 8,000 staff. They will make NOR and NAND-type flash chips, which are typically used for storing data in consumer and industrial products such as cell phones, MP3 music players and digital cameras. Intel has struggled for years to make a profit from its flash business, and earlier in May said it would lay off as many as 1,000 workers when it closed an outdated flash plant in New Mexico. A spokeswoman for ST said the company also planned to comply with the FTC request, but would not confirm whether it was related to antitrust concerns. "We will provide all the information they need. The FTC needs it by the second half of 2007," said ST spokeswoman Carol Brown. "This is just part of the approval process." Â
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A consortium of technology companies hopes to create a common antipiracy language, ending the Babel of copy-proofing technologies that has rendered much digital content and hardware incompatible.
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Warner Music CEO Edgar Bronfman isn't singing the same tune as Apple Inc. Steve Jobs when it comes to protecting digital music. Jobs wants to end digital rights management; Bronfman flat out rejected the idea yesterday.
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OTTAWA (CP) - An American company&#39;s pitch to Canadian doctors to write prescriptions for Internet pharmacies in exchange for big bucks is further evidence the government must shut down the industry, Liberal MP Don Boudria said Tuesday.
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Sony has decided to give up on the music and video download business, choosing to focus on its struggling PlayStation group instead. The closing of Connect would also mean the loss of at least 20 jobs, paidcontent.org reported over the weekend.
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(InfoWorld) - The CEO of Japan's leading social networking site, Mixi Inc., said Wednesday he hopes the country's law will be changed to allow users more freedom in sharing and viewing copyrighted content on the Internet. Mixi is Japan's third largest Web site in terms of traffic and enjoys more than 8 million users, two-thirds of whom log in at least once every four days to update their online diary, share pictures with friends and participate in group discussion forums. "Presently it is very difficult to upload any film that was shown on TV and distribute that over the Internet," Kenji Kasahara said at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo. "I do hope that will change because I believe that it is natural that people want to see and listen to music and video on the Internet. I do hope that it will become easier and the law will offer a legal way to do that over the Internet." "In the end I hope we will have a situation where the copyright holders, the people who view and listen to music and the people who provide that content can all be happy together," he said. Kenji Kasahara's comments come a day afterÂ YouTube's top executives met with Japanese copyright holdersÂ to hear complaints about the amount of Japanese content on YouTube. They also follow Apple CEOÂ Steve Jobs' open letterÂ for music companies to abandon the idea of digital rights management for downloaded music. To date Mixi hasn't had to contend much with the need to police its user base for copyrighted content. Much of the site consists of user-generated content, of which the vast majority is text and photos. On Monday Mixi started allowing users the ability to upload videos, but in an attempt to head-off copyright violations is limiting single clips to either five minutes in length or 50MB in size. It also requires users to click an agreement that they won't upload copyrighted content. However most Web sites take this same step and it generally doesn't stop users uploading whatever they want. "We hope that we can prevent any violation of copyright," said Kasahara. He said he believes most users want to upload personal content to show to friends and the number of people that might use the platform to share copyrighted content is low.
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StopBadware.org and Center for Democracy and Technology file FTC complaint against FastMP3Search.