Posts Tagged ‘legal’

Is Qtrax free or what?

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 13:06 No Comments

A couple of days ago I was writing about Qtrax, a P2P service that announced a deal with the 4 major record companies for freely distributing songs, legally, over the Internet.
This revolution apparently scared many people. The record companies now deny ever making such a deal. Qtrax people are rushing to say that they are [...]

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New US e-passports with RFID

Saturday, January 5, 2008 15:37 3 Comments

Apparently the US government in an effort to speed up the security checks in airports, decided to implement a system with RFID tags on passports readable from 20 feet away. This will benefit those traveling from the US to areas near by such as Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and it will come in [...]

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Copy your CD in your PC and get sued by RIAA

Wednesday, January 2, 2008 20:40 2 Comments

There is a story moving about in internet lately about a guy called Jeffrey Howell from Scottsdale, Arizona who was sued by the RIAA for ripping his own CD’s. This truth was that he was accused of illegal downloading. Nevertheless the fact is that according to RIAA “it is illegal for anyone to transfer music [...]

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