Wednesday, October 08, 2003

Napster set to replay Thursday, for pay. Roxio Inc., the company that bought the remnants of fallen song-swapping service Napster Inc., is preparing to relaunch the service, dubbed Napster 2.0, on Thursday. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:24:35 PM    comment []

State of the Practice of Computer Security Incident Response Teams. On [NewsIsFree: Popular Items] 10:22:13 PM    comment []

Apple releases Mac OS X Panther, Server. Apple Computer Inc. Wednesday announced the release of Mac OS X Panther and Panther Server, the latest major updates to its Unix-based operating system. The releases come just four months after Steve Jobs, the company's chief executive officer, demoed the new operating system during his keynote address at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco. Both versions will be available on Friday, Oct. 24, beginning at 8 p.m. [InfoWorld: Top News] 10:20:56 PM    comment []

remix: code is law. Dave Winer has remixed the "code is law" meme. Nicely, unsurprisingly. [Lessig Blog] 10:20:06 PM    comment []

Intuit to TurboTax users: We're sorry. In an open letter to customers to be published Thursday, the company plans to apologize for its product activation experiment, saying the antipiracy measure was a mistake. [CNET News.com - Front Door] 10:09:42 PM    comment []

Joe Conason's Journal. Should California Demos try to recall Arnold Schwarzenegger? [Salon Headlines] 10:08:39 PM    comment []

R.I.P., Neil Postman: Neil Postman, 72, Mass Media Critic, Dies. Neil Postman was best known for his warning that an era of mass communications is stunting the minds of children as well as adults. By Wolfgang Saxon. [New York Times: Business] 10:06:20 PM    comment []

Hacker victim files lawsuit blaming Microsoft security, by Byron Acohido, USA Today. An Emmy-winning film producer whose life was disrupted after hackers stole her Social Security number has become the champion for computer users frustrated by software security breaches. . . . Designed to form the basis of a class action, Hamilton's first-of-its-kind complaint argues that the majority of cyberattacks trace back to vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. It further alleges that Microsoft's disclaimers, which absolve it from any responsibility for security flaws, constitute an unfair business practice under California law, because consumers have little choice but to use Microsoft products. 2:28:03 PM    comment []

Rock ' n' Roll Is the New Hip Hop, by Russell Morse, Pacific News Service. 12:27:52 PM    comment []

Five From BNA News: APPEALS COURT STAYS DECISION TO BAR DO-NOT-CALL REGISTRY A U.S. federal appeals court has stayed a Denver judge's ruling and has given the FTC approval to finally start running its national do-not-call list, pending a constitutional challenge from telemarketers. Oral arguments are scheduled in Tulsa, Oklahoma for Nov. 10. Decision at http://www.ck10.uscourts.gov/circuit/031429.pdf Coverage at http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/business/08CALL.html http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/6955894.htm EXPERTS RAISE NEW SITE FINDER ISSUES Experts said yesterday at a special ICANN meeting that technical problems were created when VeriSign instituted its controversial SiteFinder service. The concerns suggested that VeriSign could run into difficulty reintroducing the modifications it made weeks ago to the Internet's architecture. VeriSign made clear during the open meeting that it had no intention of turning Site Finder off for good. http://log.does-not-exist.org/archives/000808.html http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5088128.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57670-2003Oct7.html JURY AWARDS $20 MILLION IN E-NEWSLETTER COPYRIGHT CASE A federal jury has ordered Legg Mason, a financial services firm, to pay a newsletter publisher $20 million after the firm emailed unauthorized copies of a daily email newsletter to its network of broker-dealers. Three employees of Legg-Mason paid for the annual subscription but over 1,500 people received it through the unauthorized distribution. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53416-2003Oct6.html TAIWAN PLANS TO PUSH INTERNET LICENSE FOR MUSIC DOWNLOADS An official with Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs says that the government is targeting peer-to-peer operators as it seeks to deal with online copyright issues. The official said that they plan to force popular online music service kuro.com.tw and the music industry to sit down to discuss cooperation and Internet licensing. The IFPI filed suit against kuro.com.tw in August. http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2003/10/08/2003070891 NO SHIFT IN CD COPYING A Princeton graduate student says he has figured out a way to defeat the MediaMax CD3 software, which is supposed to keep music CDs from being copied on a computer. John Halderman said the MediaMax CD3 software could be defeated on computers running the Windows operating system by holding down the Shift key, disabling a Windows feature that automatically launches the encryption software on the disc. http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5087875.html http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,60734,00.html 12:27:46 PM    comment []

Myths and Facts about the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Some common myths regarding the Rule and the facts about what the law actually says. Health Privacy Project. (Also available as a PDF download.) 11:27:34 AM    comment []

Music industry moguls have only selves to blame for sagging sales, by Dave Allen, in Oregonlive. Here's why the industry is in its precarious position: 9:27:16 AM    comment []

Salon: E-mail is broken. Q&A with Dave Farber, Brad Templeton and Jakob Nielsen. You can't go home again, or at least, you can't go back to a home without spam. The questions now are: Can e-mail be saved? How bad is the problem, really? And what can be done to fix it? [Tomalak's Realm] 7:30:53 AM    comment []

Two from Dan: Do Not Call List Still Alive. It's worth cheering a federal appeals court's ruling on Tuesday to revive the telemarketing Do-Not-Call registry. But even if this... Warning: Be Careful of Latest VirtualPC. UPDATED: I just installed Microsoft's "upgrade" of VirtualPC on my Mac, then attempted to run a Windows session. Result: a... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 7:29:26 AM    comment []

Schwarzenegger Wins [Washington Post: Front Page] 7:23:27 AM    comment []

Half a month 'til the deadline for proposals for Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2004 -- the Fourteenth Conference on Computers, Freedom, and Privacy. The Student Competition deadline is December 12. 3:26:19 AM    comment []