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------- Forwarded message follows ------- Date sent: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:12:13 -0500 To: politech@politechbot.com From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Belgian police raid online music traders; MS on open-source Copies to: andyring@inebraska.com Send reply to: declan@well.com
Related news:
Senate to Hold Hearings on Napster Ruling www.latimes.com/print/business/20010215/t000013691.html
Video Game Firms Sue Over Online Piracy www.latimes.com/print/business/20010215/t000013677.html
Belgium cracks down on file swapping news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4838654.html?tag=owv
Police go after Belgian Napster users www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/internet/02/15/belgium.napster.ap/index.html
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Subject: Arresting Napster users - Politech Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:24:38 -0600 From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring@inebraska.com> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-UIDL: 365fe6adce2a274991f617ee98dca129
Declan, since this has been posted on Slashdot, I'm guessing you've seen it already, but according to salon.com, Belgium police are arresting Napster users.
-Andy Ringsmuth andyring@inetnebr.com
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/02/15/napster/index.html
Associated Press
Feb. 15, 2001 | BRUSSELS, Belgium --
Acting on complaints from the music industry, police have raided the homes of users of music-sharing websites looking for evidence they infringed copyright rules, the prosecutors' office said Thursday.
Police searched the home of a first suspect in late December and two more in January, Olivier Bogaert, a prosecution spokesman, told Belgian news media.
He said the searches were part of an investigation of the Internet site mp3blast.com, but added four cases against Napster users were currently under review.
Marcel Heymans, general director of the Belgium branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, said he warned police of alleged copyright infractions.
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Subject: Also.... (Politech) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 22:29:41 -0600 From: Andy Ringsmuth <andyring@inebraska.com> To: "Declan McCullagh" <declan@well.com> Mime-Version: 1.0
Also, in other news, Microsoft wants Open Source illegal, Cnet says.
-Andy Ringsmuth andyring@inetnebr.com
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-4825719-RHAT.h tml?t ag=ltnc
Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation (Update1) 2/14/01 4:57 PM Source:Bloomberg News
Redmond, Washington, Feb. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating-system chief, Jim Allchin, says that freely distributed software code such as rival Linux could stifle innovation and that legislators need to understand the threat.
The result will be the demise of both intellectual property rights and the incentive to spend on research and development, he said yesterday, after the company previewed its latest version of Windows. Microsoft has told U.S. lawmakers of its concern while discussing protection of intellectual property rights.
Linux is developed in a so-called open-source environment in which the software code generally isn't owned by any one company. That, as well as programs such as music-sharing software from Napster Inc., means the world's largest software maker has to do a better job of talking to policymakers, he said.
''Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer,'' Allchin said. ''I can't imagine something that could be worse than this for the software business and the intellectual-property business.''
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