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MediaSentry and Harry Potter

MediaSentry has been discredited so many times in so many ways by so many people in so many countries it’s hard to believe it’s still around. But it is — just like some quack medical practitioner or snakeoil salesman who simply moves on somewhere else every time he’s found to be a fake. Fired by the RIAA, it showed up in Australia where, thanks to its ‘evidence,’ a Brisbane student was thrown out of his dormitory.

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Friday, November 6th, 2009 P2P News 1 Comment

CBS gave RIAA Last.fm user data: report

“Last.fm didn’t hand user data over to the RIAA. According to our source, it was their parent company, CBS, that did it.That corresponds to what our original source said in conversations we had after our initial post and before CBS lawyers became involved. But we didn’t want to update until we had an independent source for that information, too.

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Saturday, May 23rd, 2009 P2P News No Comments