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Warner: No More Ad-Supported Music Deals
Warner Music Group CEO Edgar Bronfman Jr. recently stated that the company would not sign any new licensing agreements for ad-supported music. “Free streaming services are clearly not net positive for the industry, and as far as Warner Music is concerned will not be licensed,” Bronfman announced in a phone interview.
Continue reading »Feds Charge 3 With Comcast.net Hijacking
Three alleged members of the hacker gang Kryogeniks were hit with a federal conspiracy charge Thursday for a 2008 stunt that replaced Comcast’s homepage with a shout-out to other hackers. Prosecutors identified Christopher Allen Lewis, 19, and James Robert Black Jr., 20, as the hackers “EBK” and “Defiant,” known for hijacking Comcast’s domain name in May of last year — a prank that took down the cable giant’s homepage and webmail service for more than five hours, and allegedly cost the company over $128,000. Visitors to Comcast.net had been redirected to a simple page reading “KRYOGENIKS EBK and DEFIANT RoXed COMCAST sHouTz To VIRUS Warlock elul21 coll1er seven.” A third man, Michael Paul Lebel, 28, was also charged with helping the duo, though his alleged handle “Slacker” was not credited in the defacement message.
Continue reading »P2P Blog at Newteevee Live
I’m at Newteevee Live today, doing some live blogging for Newteevee.com , as well as the occasional interview for the live stream . Go check out the stream and the many posts that will go oup throughout the day, or stop by and say hello if you’re there! Tags: newteevee , newteeveelive , ntvl
Continue reading »Mark Cuban on net neutrality: ‘Flat out wrong’
“The moment you hear someone warning about stark changes as a consequence of net neutrality, you know they’ve got it wrong,” says networking and protocol expert Robb Topolski. He was talking about recent remarks from Mark Cuban who apparently believes the net will slow to a pinful crawl if net neutrality becomes the accepted norm. “Net neutrality is about preserving the Internet’s design for ISPs to forward packets toward their destination as fast as they can, without first inspecting the content for ‘management’ purposes,” Topolski told p2pnet.
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