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Just a day after filing 261 civil lawsuits against alleged music pirates, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) reached its first settlement Tuesday with a New York woman agreeing to pay $2,000 for the copyrighted songs distributed over Kazaa by her 12-year-old daughter. The settlement was reached between the RIAA and Sylvia Torres, mother […]

Representatives from Verizon and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) staked out familiar ground Tuesday when testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the subpoena powers of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), but the testimony also provided a sneak preview of next week’s court appearance by the two warring parties. In a case […]

The chief spokesman for peer-to-peer (P2P) network Kazaa told the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday that allegations of “strong linkage” between file-swapping networks and the distribution of child pornography were “vile and reprehensible.” Alan Morris, EVP of Sharman Networks, owner and operator of Kazaa, said the allegations amounted to nothing less than a smear campaign by […]

The nation’s wireless carriers Tuesday unveiled a 10-part consumer code in hopes of staving off federal intervention. According to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA), the cell phone industry’s major trader group and author of the plan, the voluntary code is to help wireless consumers to better understand their wireless services and rate plans. […]

U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.), who earlier this summer questioned the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) subpoena process in its ongoing war against music pirates, is urging caution for those tempted by the music industry’s new amnesty program. The RIAA on Monday said it is offering an amnesty program for those who voluntarily identify […]

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) launched its long anticipated legal assault on file swappers Monday by filing 261 civil lawsuits against individuals accused of illegally distributing copyrighted music through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. RIAA President Cary Sherman said the lawsuits were the first of “subsequent waves of litigation.” According to Sherman, the lawsuits were […]

A New York woman suspected of illegally downloading copyrighted music has gone to court to block the Recording Industry Association of America’s (RIAA) attempt to obtain her name through a subpoena issued under a controversial provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The RIAA claims the woman, whose online name is “nycfashiongirl,” illegally downloaded […]

Federal authorities have made the first arrest under the Truth in Domain Names Act, the legislation signed earlier this year by President Bush that makes it a crime to use a misleading Web address to direct children to pornographic Internet sites. John Zuccarini, 53, was arrested early Wednesday morning in Hollywood, Fla., and charged with […]

President Bush signed the Singapore-Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) Wednesday, the first such arrangements with a South American country and an Asian nation. Both FTAs, which were approved by Congress earlier this summer, will take effect on Jan. 1. U.S. technology companies exported nearly $6 billion in high tech goods to Singapore last year. Singapore […]

WASHINGTON — Identity theft is an even greater problem than initially thought by federal officials, but Internet sites that collect personal information are not a significant contributing factor, according to a new report released Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In what Howard Beales, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, calls the […]

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Michael K. Powell plans to change the FCC’s longtime policy of accepting travel and entertainment compensation from the industries and businesses it regulates. In May, the Center for Public Integrity issued a study showing FCC officials, including commissioners and staff, have accepted almost $2.8 million over the last eight years […]

Energy Department CIO Karen Evans will assume the government’s top IT position later this month when she takes over as administrator of e-government and IT at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Evans replaces Mark Forman, who resigned in early August. Evans is a 20-year veteran of government service with responsibilities ranging from GS-2 […]