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Audiogalaxy settles with recording industry
News Audiogalaxy, a popular Internet file-swapping service, agreed Monday to filter copyrighted works as part of a legal settlement with the recording industry. Under the settlement, Audiogalaxy is required to obtain permission or consent from a...
[June 18, 2002, 9:30]
Panasonic promises longer DVD-DVR recording
News Panasonic is bumping up the storage limit in its line of combination DVD-digital video recorders, promising longer recording times that could help the company hang onto its market lead. Shipments are expected to rise significantly as manufacturers...
[July 15, 2003, 9:59]
Lone file-swapper takes on recording industry
News An anonymous California computer user went to court on Thursday to challenge the recording industry's file-trading subpoenas, charging that they are unconstitutional and violate her right to privacy. The legal motion, filed in Washington, D.C...
[August 22, 2003, 10:25]
Perpendicular recording promises roomier iPods
News Both use a storage technique called perpendicular recording, first proposed nearly 30 years ago. In normal longitudinal recording, these areas lie flat on the surface of the disk: in perpendicular media, they are stacked on end like straws in a box.
[December 14, 2004, 15:30]
ICO warns against sound-recording CCTV
News The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has launched a new CCTV code of practice that describes the use of sound recording as "highly intrusive" and warns organisations that its use would only ever be justified in highly exception circumstances.
[January 28, 2008, 13:51]
Pioneer cuts the cost of recording DVDs
News Pioneer Electronics is spinning out a faster and lower cost version of its popular DVD-recordable drive. The electronics device maker announced on Tuesday that it plans to replace its DVR-A03 with the next-generation DVR-A04 DVD-R (DVD-recordable...
[March 21, 2002, 10:32]
Entertainment industry joins Internet2
News The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) will join the Internet2 network coalition, Internet2 officials announced Friday. The coalition's ambitions sparked concern in the movie and...
[September 12, 2005, 10:45]
EMI: We don't use rootkits
News The EMI Group, one of the world's largest recording companies, has distanced itself from the controversy surrounding digital rights management (DRM) software used by Sony BMG by stating that it does not use rootkits on its own products.
[November 7, 2005, 9:35]
Jobs promises OS X updates
News Although CD recording and other features aren't ready yet for Mac OS X, updates are coming soon, according to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs. CD recording will come in an update next month, and DVD playback will be available sometime in the...
[March 22, 2001, 7:45]
A Year Ago: Net music will change
News On Tuesday, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), whose members sell more than 90 percent of the recorded music in the US, along with the five biggest recording companies, unveiled an initiative to create a secure format that will...
[December 16, 1999, 6:01]
RIAA hits back at 'Nycfashiongirl'
News The Recording Industry Association of America levelled a full legal barrage at the sole Kazaa user fighting its attempts to identify file swappers, saying she was indisputably a major copyright infringer.
[August 28, 2003, 11:30]
RIAA presses court for swappers' names
News The Recording Industry Association of America is pressing a federal court to ignore cable Internet provider Charter Communications' attempt to keep private the names of 93 subscribers who allegedly traded songs online illegally.
[October 15, 2003, 13:20]
RIAA draws civil liberties opposition
News The Recording Industry Association of America is facing a legal challenge to its anti-piracy tactics, even as it announces that it has reached settlements in dozens of lawsuits against individuals. The recording industry's subpoenas, filed under...
[September 30, 2003, 12:40]
Disk storage climbs perpendicularly
News Perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) technology, which can make hard drives with up to ten times today’s capacity, will be widespread in 2007 and ubiquitous in 2009, according to analyst firm IDC. PMR works by aligning the magnetic zones used to...
[June 27, 2005, 17:10]
Anti-P2P lawmaker given top IP position
News Orrin Hatch, the senator who once said the recording industry should be able to destroy music pirates' PCs, will be in charge of a new Senate panel responsible for writing copyright laws. A few years ago, Hatch was one of the more vocal Washington...
[March 18, 2005, 8:55]
Maxtor loads up disk platters
News Disk-drive company Maxtor says it has reached a milestone in devising cost-effective platters for a next-generation recording technology called perpendicular recording. With the new media and perpendicular recording technology, Maxtor said it is...
[October 13, 2003, 13:20]
RIAA sues 261 swappers
News The Recording Industry Association of America said it has filed 261 lawsuits against alleged file swappers on Monday, charging the computer users with "egregious" copyright infringement potentially worth millions of dollars.
[September 9, 2003, 10:10]
Poor IT hindering crime fighting
News Police forces in England and Wales are suffering from "outdated and overstretched" crime recording systems, with many failing to meet Home Office data standards, according to an Audit Commission report.
[December 23, 2004, 15:30]
Seagate sends perpendicular drive to market
News Seagate, the largest hard-drive manufacturer in the world, has started to ship its first drive for notebooks based around perpendicular recording techniques, a shift that increases capacity by percent.
[January 17, 2006, 7:50]
Child's mother pays RIAA to drop suit
News Barely 24 hours after suing alleged file swappers around the US, the recording industry has settled its first suit, agreeing to drop the case against a 12-year-old New York girl in exchange for $2,000 (£1,258).
[September 10, 2003, 8:55]
