| Date: 01/04/2006 |
Author: C.M. |
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Some idiots are using our @dream-universe.com domain suffix in their spam reeling. These mails are not coming from dream-universe.com, or any part of the dream-universe.com network.
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| Date: 26/1/2003 |
Author: P.M. Greaves |
Some of you may have heard of a serious News website called CNN. If our 'borrowing' of their style for a satirical news website wasn't great enough... somebody has created a CNN fake news generator that means any grubby-handed Kevin can make their own news.
Ah well, only we do it like professionals:
Cliiiiick
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Boobie Licking Scandal (seriously!) |
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Audiogalaxy to do a Napster? |
| Date: 29/5/2002 |
Author: P.M. Greaves |
The Recording Industry Association of America on Friday filed a copyright lawsuit against file sharing community, Audiogalaxy.
Filed in federal court in New York, the suit charges that Audiogalaxy's efforts to filter access to copyrighted songs have been ineffective. As a result, free-ranging access to copyrighted works through the system has gone unchecked.
"If they had demonstrated the ability to filter, we wouldn't be here," said Matt Oppenheim, an RIAA senior vice president. "A first-year computer programmer could do better than they have."
Audiogalaxy is one of the oldest Napster clones and the "Satellite" program has been downloaded at least 30 million times.
Audiogalaxy filters some searches, but the blocking appears to be haphazard. A search for Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence" --one track cited by the RIAA-- came up with 41 matches. The first was blocked, and clicking on it returned a message saying: "SEARCH PROHIBITED. You cannot request this song due to copyright restrictions. Please try a different search." The remaining 40 versions of the song were not blocked, however.
(The RIAA also has copyright suits against Napster, StreamCast Networks and its Morpheus software, Amsterdam-based Kazaa BV, West Indies-based Grokster, MP3Board and Madster).
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Microsoft running out of their own ideas? |
| Date: 11/5/2002 |
Author: P.M. Greaves |
Microsoft together with BSA (Business Software Alliance) actively pursue people who make copies of their product.
Yet Microsoft itself was convicted of software piracy on September 27, 2001 by a French court. Commercial Court of Nanterre fined Microsoft 3 million francs (US$ 408,141) because it illegally included another company's proprietary source code in SoftImage 3D, a top-of-the-line animation package. The only person to have noticed this was Peruvian congressman Edgar David Villanueva Nuñez.
Good work that man!
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