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o Bill Would Limit Liability of Labels, Studios Who Hack P2P Networks
o ACLU Sues Over DMCA Restrictions In 'Net Content Filtering Case
o Open Source Advocate Plans to Explain DVD Hack in Public DMCA Challenge
o Briefly Noted: New Digital Cinema - CEO, AT&T Comcast, Liberate -
Eurosport, Cybernet Systems - Sony Computer Entertainment, Macrovision -
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, Sirius Satellite Radio - George
Clinton, Ucentric, Ringtones - personality traits
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o Bill Would Limit Liability of Labels, Studios Who Hack P2P Networks

Washington -- Two lawmakers have followed up on a promise to introduce
legislation that would make it legal for movie and music companies to use
technological countermeasures to help stem the use of peer-to-peer
file-sharing networks for piracy of copyrighted works. The bill,
introduced on Thursday by Reps. Howard Berman (D-Ca.) and Howard Coble
(R-N.C.), would limit the liability of copyright owners who use
technological "self-help measures" to thwart file-swappers. "Copyright
owners could employ a variety of technological tools to prevent the
distribution of copyrighted works over a P2P network. Interdiction, decoy,
redirection, file-blocking, and spoofing technologies can help prevent
unauthorized P2P distribution," Berman said in a speech announcing the
bill. The full text of the bill is available as a PDF file through a link
below.
http://www.house.gov/berman/p2p062502.html
http://www.politechbot.com/docs/berman.coble.p2p.final.072502.pdf
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946316.html?tag=fd_top
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o ACLU Sues Over DMCA Restrictions In 'Net Content Filtering Case

Washington -- The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a federal
lawsuit that challenges the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA),
arguing that a computer researcher has First Amendment and "fair use"
rights to examine the full list of sites contained in an Internet blocking
program and to share his research tools and results with others. The ACLU
filed the suit on behalf of Ben Edelman, a researcher looking to examine
the list of "offensive" Internet content being blocked by software
developed by Seattle-based N2H2, which is used by several states on PCs in
their public libraries. The DMCA stipulates that anyone who circumvents
copy-protection technology on digital media, which would be necessary in
order for Edelman to conduct his research, is in criminal violation and
subject to fines and possible jail time. "Especially when governments in
the U.S. and abroad mandate the use of blocking programs, the public has a
right to know what is being blocked, and I believe I have a right to
uncover this information without being subject to a corporate lawsuit,"
said Edelman.
http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/Edelman_N2H2_feature.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-946266.html
http://www.n2h2.com
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o Open Source Advocate Plans to Explain DVD Hack in Public DMCA Challenge

San Francisco -- Open source software advocate Bruce Perens plans to mount
a challenge to the criminal aspects of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) on Friday, when he will demonstrate at a technology conference
how a hacked DVD player can circumvent the device's embedded "regional
coding" rules, technology news site InfoWorld reported. Perens said he
will show how the modified DVD player breaks the digital rights management
technology during his presentation at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention
in San Diego -- an act that got Dmitry Sklyarov, a Russian software
developer -- arrested for violating the DMCA at a technology conference
last year. "What happened to Dmitry could conceivably happen to me as
well," Perens told InfoWorld. "It is a political and social statement, and
the statement is that the people do not need to have a hall monitor living
in their stereo system and should be able to play any kind of media on the
device they wish." Perens said he was moved to pose the challenge the law
after purchasing DVDs in England that would not play on his U.S.-bought
DVD player.
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/07/23/020723hnperens.xml
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Briefly Noted:

(Los Angeles) NDC (New Digital Cinema), a consortium of Hollywood studios
working to implement technology standards for digital cinema, announced
that it has named Charles Goldwater as chief executive officer. NDC, which
counts studios including Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Bros., Paramount,
Disney, Sony, Universal and MGM among its members, was created to address
technical standards for digital film projection, and to help facilitate
the costly transition for theaters from film to digital projection. "It's
a little early in my tenure to be able to predict what will get
accomplished and when it will happen," Goldwater told Reuters.
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=search&StoryID=1247211

(London) Liberate Technologies, a provider of interactive TV software,
announced on Thursday that it has partnered with European digital TV
sports network Eurosport to develop interactive programming. Eurosport
reaches over 95 million homes and 250 million viewers in 54 countries, and
broadcasts sporting events including the Winter Olympics, Figure Skating
World Championships, Moto GP, French Open and U.S. Open Tennis, and the
Tour de France.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020725/sfth005_1.html
http://www.liberate.com
http://www.eurosport.com

(Ann Arbor, Mich.) Software developer Cybernet Systems announced on
Thursday that it has entered into a licensing agreement with Sony Computer
Entertainment. Under the agreement, Sony PlayStation 2 game developers
will be given access to Michigan-based Cybernet's OpenSkies massively
multiplayer network engine, for the purpose of developing multiplayer
online games for PS2. OpenSkies enables tens of thousands of players to
simultaneously interact in the same online environment. Cybernet will also
work with these developers and scale the OpenSkies network engine to their
needs.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/222060077&ticker=
http://www.cybernet.com
http://www.openskies.net

(Santa Clara, Calif.) Macrovision, a developer of copy-protection
technology for audio and video, announced on Thursday that Columbia
TriStar Home Entertainment, a division of Sony Pictures Entertainment, has
signed a multi-year contract renewal to utilize Macrovision's DVD
copy-protection technology. "By continuing to use our technology to thwart
unauthorized consumer attempts to make DVD-to-VHS and DVD-to-recordable
DVD copies, CTHE is making a very strong statement about protecting its
intellectual property and supporting the retail channels," said
Macrovision CEO Bill Krepick.
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020725/250017_1.html
http://www.macrovision.com

(New York) Sirius Satellite Radio, a provider of satellite-delivered
digital radio programming, said on Thursday that it has signed funk music
legend George Clinton to host music shows and provide other programming
input on its service. In addition to Clinton, leader of renowned groups
Parliament and Funkadelic, New York-based Sirius has recruited artists
including Richie Havens, Ray Manzarek and Grandmaster Flash to host
programming and promote its service.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020725/nyth034_1.html

(Philadelphia) Cable TV operator Comcast announced on Thursday that,
following the completion of its merger with AT&T Broadband, current
Comcast president Brian L. Roberts will serve as president and CEO of the
united AT&T Comcast. The company also named Stephen B. Burke, current
president of Comcast Cable, to head the new cable division of AT&T
Comcast.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020725/phth037_1.html
http://www.comcast.com
http://www.attbroadband.com

(Maynard, Mass.) Ucentric, a provider of video-on-demand delivery
software, announced on Thursday that it has named Michael Collette as its
CEO. Previously, Collette was senior vice president of marketing and
business development for interactive TV software developer OpenTV.
http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/f_headline.cgi?day0/222060163&ticker=
http://www.ucentric.com

(Redmond, Wash.) MSNBC.com recently published a feature article on cell
phone ringtones, and what they can say about a person. The author says
that the choice of a ringtone, with all of the different downloadable
songs and jingles becoming available in the U.S., is now "as distinctive
as the choice of a tie or hair cut."
http://www.msnbc.com/news/784909.asp?0dm=C11NT
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Director of Public Relations - Salary: $130k + DOE - San Francisco, CA

One of my top consumer tech clients has created a big name for themselves.
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