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o FBI
Arrests Suspected Hollywood Movie "Screener" Pirate
o Judge
Says Kazaa Can Sue Record Labels for Copyright Infringement
o Chief
Commentator for MarketWatch.com Resigns Amid SEC Probe
o FBI
Raids Programmer's House in "Half-Life 2" Code Theft Investigation
o
Google Tests Online Social Networking Waters with Orkut.com
o XM
Satellite Radio to Sell 20 Million Shares
o Internet Portal Yahoo to
Decamp from Nordic Region
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Briefly Noted: Macrovision
CDS-300, AOL - CBS - Super Bowl ads, SunnComm Technologies - Quiet
Tiger, Interplay Entertainment - "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II,"
Eidos - Ion Storm - "Thief: Deadly Shadows," Gaming Open Market
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o FBI Arrests Suspected Hollywood
Movie "Screener" Pirate
Los Angeles -- FBI agents have arrested an Illinois man they
believe was responsible for posting several "screener" copies of
Academy Award-nominated movies to the Internet, the Associated Press
reported. Russell Sprague, 51, was scheduled in court Friday to face
criminal copyright infringement charges, after a search warrant
executed at his house Thursday turned up hundreds of copies of
screeners, for films including "The Last Samurai" and "Shattered
Glass." The FBI told AP these screeners have been traced back to
Academy member and actor Carmine Caridi, who it was revealed several
weeks ago was the source of the copy of "Something's Gotta Give"
that was found online by Sony Pictures. Caridi, who has not been
charged as of yet, told investigators he has mailed his screener
movies to Sprague the past three years, believing he was simply a
film buff. Caridi's attorney Richard Millard told the Los Angeles
Times that Caridi, "was embarrassed to learn that his name was
associated with the film that was being improperly distributed." The
Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) declared a ban on the
distribution of screeners late last year, citing piracy concerns,
but that ban was later overturned by a federal court order.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-arrest23jan23,1,4614018.story
http://makeashorterlink.com/?A35313B27
http://www.salon.com/ent/wire/2004/01/23/oscar/index.html
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o Judge Says
Kazaa Can Sue Record Labels for Copyright Infringement
Los Angeles -- A federal judge has cleared the way for
file-sharing network Kazaa to pursue its own copyright infringement
suit against the same record labels that have sued the company in an
attempt to shut the service down. U.S. District Judge Stephen V.
Wilson said last week that Kazaa parent Sharman Networks may pursue
its claims, which allege that the Recording Industry Association of
America (RIAA) used unlicensed versions of Kazaa to monitor the
network for infringers; and also violated the Kazaa license
agreement by sending Kazaa users unsolicited instant messages, and
seeding the file-sharing network with bogus music files. "What's
sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," Michael Friedman, an
attorney not involved with the case, commented to the Los Angeles
Times.
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-kazaa23jan23,1,2476555.story
http://www.kazaa.com
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o Chief
Commentator for MarketWatch.com Resigns Amid SEC Probe
San Francisco -- MarketWatch.com, a San Francisco-based
multimedia publisher of business news and financial information,
said on Thursday that Thom Calandra, the company's chief commentator
and author of The Calandra Report, has resigned. Calandra is being
informally investigated by the SEC relating to his trading practices
dating back to October 2002. MarketWatch.com also said that it is
conducting its own internal investigation to see if he violated
company policy. "Thom was required to abide by our internal trading
policies and fully disclose his activities to his readers and
subscribers," said Larry Kramer, the chairman and CEO of MarketWatch.
The company said that it is fully cooperating with the SEC in
turning over pertinent documents and has terminated The Calandra
Report. Subscribers will be given pro-rated refunds.
http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=Cqa9y0bKbmdiYyJu4nJe
http://www.marketwatch.com
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o
FBI Raids Programmer's House in "Half-Life 2" Code Theft
Investigation
San Francisco -- In efforts to find those responsible stealing and
posting online part of the code making up the anticipated PC game
"Half-Life 2," the FBI raided San Francisco programmer Chris
Toshok's home last week, seizing computer hardware and software, the
BBC reported. Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve Software, which spent five
years developing the game -- arguably the most popular title
previewed at last year's Electronic Entertainment Expo -- said that
the source code was stolen following an incident in September where
the company's own servers were hacked. Toshok, who denied any
wrongdoing, told the BBC the agents questioned him about a group
called the Hungry Programmers, with whom he previously shared a
house.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3414157.stm
http://www.valvesoftware.com
http://www.hungry.com
http://squeedlyspooch.com/blog/archives/000072.html
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o Google Tests Online Social
Networking Waters with Orkut.com
San Francisco -- Google quietly launched its own social networking
site on Thursday, Orkut.com, in a potential bid to enter the
burgeoning space occupied by sites like Friendster, Tribe.net and
MySpace.com, CNET News.com reported. The site is an independent
project of Google engineer Orkut Buyukkokten, who created it during
the past several months utilizing the one day per week that Google
asks its engineers to spend working on personal projects. However,
the company said that Orkut.com is only affiliated with Google, and
not an official Google feature at this time. "We're always looking
at opportunities to expand our search products, but we currently
have no plans in the social networking market," Google spokeswoman
Eileen Rodriquez told News.com.
http://news.com.com/2100-1026_3-5146006.html
http://www.orkut.com
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o XM Satellite Radio to Sell 20
Million Shares
Washington -- XM Satellite Radio, a provider of satellite-delivered
digital radio programming, said on Friday that it and certain of its
shareholders will raise a total of $520 million through an offering
of 20 million shares. The company, which is selling 7 million of the
shares, with the remainder being sold by current stockholders, said
that it will sell the shares for $26.50 each. In addition, one of
the selling shareholders has granted the underwriters an option to
purchase up to 3 million additional shares. The offering is expected
to close on Jan. 28. Washington-based XM had more than 1.36 million
subscribers at year's end.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040113/dctu061_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040123/dcf012_1.html
http://www.xmradio.com
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o Internet
Portal Yahoo to Decamp from Nordic Region
Stockholm -- AFP reported on Friday that Internet portal Yahoo plans
to shut its branch in Copenhagen and pull out of the Nordic region
by month's end. The news echoes a similar report published in Danish
daily Jyllands-Posten, which says that Yahoo has decided to lay off
its 20 employees in Copenhagen and shut down operations there
because the Nordic branch -- which covers Denmark, Norway and Sweden
-- has been losing money. Yahoo's Danish branch reported a
$3.6-million loss in 2002, twice the losses reported the year
previous, Jyllands-Posten reported.
http://www.jp.dk/itogc/artikel:aid=2228352/
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March 1, 2004 | New York City
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CONFIRMED SPEAKERS
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David Del
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Music Choice
Derek Broes - EVP, Worldwide Operations,
Altnet
Ted Cohen - SVP, Digital Development & Distribution,
EMI Music
David Card
- VP & Research Director,
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Peter Csathy
- COO, MusicMatch
Maureen
Dorney - Partner, Gray
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Roy Elkins
- CEO & Founder, Broadjam
Mark
Frieser - CEO & Founder,
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Brian
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Billboard Magazine
Jim Griffin
- CEO, Cherry Lane
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Ellie
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Jeff Howe -
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John
Kilcullen - President & Publisher,
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David Kusek
- Associate VP, Berklee
College of Music
Steven Marks - SVP, Legal and
Business Affairs, RIAA
Tim Nilson
- VP, Mobile Technology,
Sony Music
Jonathan Potter - Executive Director,
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Sean Ryan -
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Howie
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Bob Struble
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Nikke
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o Briefly Noted: (Santa Clara,
Calif.) Macrovision, a developer of CD and DVD copy-protection and
other digital rights management technologies, has announced the
release of the latest version of its CD copy-protection system,
which now allows users to burn a limited number of digital tracks to
CD and transfer them to portable devices. Unlike previous versions,
which included one session of tracks playable on any CD player and
another set intended for playback only on the PC, Macrovision's new
CDS-300 system uses a feature in Microsoft's Windows Media format
that allows content providers to determine the usage rights for the
digital versions of the tracks on a CD. "With the flexible usage
rights permitted with the Windows Media DRM, the average consumer
should not even notice that their CD is copy protected," said Adam
Sexton, Macrovision's vice president of music marketing.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040122/216111_1.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5145961.html
http://www.macrovision.com
(Dulles, Va.) America Online announced on Friday that it has
partnered with CBS on a Super Bowl commercials promotion. AOL
members and AOL.com visitors will be able to view online and vote
for their favorite past Super Bowl ad, with the winners announced
during a CBS special, "Super Bowl's Greatest Commercials," airing on
Jan. 31. Past Super Bowl ads featured will include Apple's "1984"
ad, "Jordan vs. Bird," and "Mean Joe Greene." AOL and CBS will also
co-host an online vote for the best ad from the current year,
offering streaming replays of ads immediately following the game.
http://media.aoltimewarner.com/media/press_view.cfm?release_num=55253737
(Phoenix, Ariz) SunnComm Technologies, a developer of CD
copy-protection and digital rights management technologies,
announced on Friday that it has entered into a marketing agreement
with Quiet Tiger, an international sales and marketing group for
digital content security products. Under the terms, Quiet Tiger will
become the sales and marketing arm for SunnComm's MediaMax M4 suite
of products that provide copy-protection and enable added content
features for CDs. Additionally, SunnComm board member William H.
Whitmore Jr. has been named president and CEO of Quiet Tiger.
http://www.quiettiger.com
http://www.sunncomm.com
(Irvine, Calif.) Game developer Interplay Entertainment has
released its "Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II" for PlayStation 2 and
Xbox. Developed under a license from Atari and Hasbro, and based on
the "Dungeons and Dragons" role-playing game created by Wizards of
the Coast, the game will be co-published by Vivendi Universal Games.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040122/deth020_1.html
http://www.interplay.com
http://www.wizards.com
http://bgda2.blackisle.com
(San Francisco) U.K.-based video game publisher Eidos said on
Friday that it will publish Austin-based developer Ion Storm's
"Thief: Deadly Shadows" for Xbox and the PC in the spring of 2004.
The game is the third installment in the action stealth series
originally created by Looking Glass Studios.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040122/sfth076_1.html
http://www.eidos.com
http://www.ionstorm.com
(San Francisco) Wired News on Friday reported on the Gaming Open
Market, a recently launched website that allows players of online
games like "The Sims Online," "Ultima Online," "Second Life" and
others to trade the game currency used in the online virtual worlds
for actual U.S. dollars. While such transactions have become common
on eBay, Gaming Open Market hopes to draw users by providing
purchase protection for buyers, and eventually enabling trading of
virtual currencies across different online games.
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,61999,00.html
http://www.gamingopenmarket.com
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