Potential Landmark Decision In TorrentSpy VS. MPAA Infringement Battle
Judge Jacqueline Chooljian of the Central District of California in Los Angeles, issued a landmark decision while presiding over the battle between the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and TorrentSpy. Last year the MPAA sued TorrentSpy, a BitTorrent search engine, for copyright infringement. On May 29, Chooljian ordered TorrentSpy to begin logging user activity from a server’s Random Access Memory (RAM), including IP...
Universal To Join iTunes Plus DRM-Free Party?
Universal is currently in negotiations with Apple about participating, on a limited scale, in their iTunes Plus service that sells DRM-free, higher-fidelity songs, albeit with the buyer’s identification watermarked into each individual track purchased. Apple’s iTunes Plus only features music from EMI. It’s being reported that a number of sticky issues remain to an official announcement including the well-worn...






