Source : Afp

L'Union des producteurs phonographiques français indépendants (UPFI) et la Société civile des producteurs de phonogrammes en France (SPPF) se sont félicités mercredi de l'arrêt des activités du site d'échange gratuit de fichiers musique et vidéo Grokster."Les producteurs de musique espèrent que cette décision va constituer un tournant positif par rapport à la circulation massive de musique enregistrée via les réseaux P2P, rappelant que les ventes de disques ont chuté de près de 35 % depuis fin 2002", ont estimé dans un communiqué commun l'UPFI et la SPPF (qui regroupent majoritairement des producteurs indépendants).

Les producteurs indépendants estiment cependant que s'il est "nécessaire de mettre un terme au trafic illicite", "la technologie P2P ne doit pas être condamnée en tant que telle".

Ils se disent prêts à expérimenter des modèles "basés sur des échanges de titres", comme l'est la technologie P2P (d'ordinateur à ordinateur), mais "dans un cadre payant et sur la base d'accords de distribution".

Lundi, les industries américaines de la musique et du cinéma ont annoncé avoir conclu un accord à l'amiable avec les exploitants de Grokster, aux termes duquel l'activité du site va s'arrêter.

Le 27 juin, prenant le contre-pied de décisions précédentes, la Cour suprême des Etats-Unis avait estimé que les exploitants des logiciels P2P du type Grokster étaient susceptibles de poursuites pour avoir encouragé leurs usagers à se partager des copies non autorisées de chansons, films ou encore logiciels.

Source : Pc Inpact

Les autorités sud-coréennes viennent de fermer le plus gros réseau P2P du pays, Soribada. La décision date du mois d'août dernier, la justice coréenne avait alors donné l'ordre de fermer le service Peer to Peer définitivement.

La fermeture de Soribada est intervenue hier (mardi 8 novembre), le jour même de la fin de Grokster, son homologue américain. Le 31 octobre dernier, la justice avait imposé une astreinte à Soribada, ne voyant pas les choses bouger. Le service P2P coréen devait alors 10 000 dollars de plus pour chaque journée d'activité supplémentaire.

L'industrie du disque coréenne avait porté plainte contre le service et remporté son procès, 810 000 preuves de téléchargements illégaux à l'appui. La plupart des fichiers concernés étaient des chansons protégées, distribuées gratuitement aux clients P2P de Soribada.

C'est John Kennedy, président de l'IFPI, l'association mondiale de l'industrie du disque, qui s'est particulièrement félicité des derniers évènements. Selon lui « les tribunaux sur trois continents américain, australien et asiatique ont tous rendu des jugements clairs contre les services P2P qui ont construit leur activité commerciale sur la violation des droits d'auteur ».

Alors que le service en lui-même avait clairement été reconnu coupable de violation de droits d'auteur, les dirigeants ont en revanche échappé à une telle condamnation lors d'une décision plus ancienne encore, en janvier dernier. Parrallèlement, en septembre 2005, la Corée avait déjà fait fermer le plus grand service de streaming du pays sur les mêmes accusations.

eMarketing Association Announces 6th Annual eMarketing Conference in

San Francisco

 

Westerly, Rhode Island (PRWEB) November 8, 2005 -- The eMarketing Association (eMA) today announced that Murray Gaylord, Vice President of Brand Marketing for Yahoo! would be the keynote speaker for day one of the eMarketing 6 Conference in

San Francisco, April 25th and 26th, 2006. The conference which is held twice a year for senior marketing executives will focus on email marketing, search, integration of on and offline marketing, banner advertising, pod casting, blogs and ecommerce site marketing. In it's 6th year, the conference has attracted delegates from over 30 countries and such companies as Google, Microsoft, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, The Coca Cola Company, Marriott International, AT &T, Abbott Laboratories, Nokia Corporation, Bristol Myers Squibb, General Motors Corporation, Wells Fargo & Company, Capital One, Sony Corporation, Texas Instruments, CitiGroup, Inc., FedEx, Southwest Airlines, 3M Company, Intel Corporation, MBNA, AOL Time Warner, Inc., Discover Financial, InterContinental Hotels Group, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., General Mills and hundreds of Fortune 1000 firms.

 

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/11/prweb307559.htm

 

Yahoo! VP of Brand Marketing to Speak at eMarketing Conference

 

Westerly, Rhode Island - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - November 8, 2005 - The eMarketing Association (eMA) has announced that Murray Gaylord, Vice President of Brand Marketing for Yahoo! will be the keynote speaker for the eMarketing 6 Conference in

San Francisco, April 25th and 26th, 2006.

 

http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-yahoo-vp-of-brand-marketing-to-speak-at-emarketing-conference-1563.html

Caspian, Verilink Team

Caspian, the leading supplier of advanced policy-based traffic management solutions for IP networks, and Verilink (Nasdaq:VRLK), a leading provider of broadband access solutions, today announced that they have partnered to develop a new approach for deploying converged IP multimedia services. The joint Multimedia Service Assurance Architecture (MSAA) will combine technology solutions from both companies, and will enable service providers to deploy next-generation multimedia IP services on access networks with guaranteed end-to-end quality of service (QoS).

http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=84015&WT.svl=wire1_1

EBay Has Eye on Payments Business

You may not have noticed yet, but online auction giant eBay Inc. has set its sights on the payments space. Earlier this month PayPal, eBay's unit specializing in online payments (mostly person-to-person, or P2P, transactions), agreed to purchase the payment gateway operated by VeriSign, a name that's practically synonymous with the Internet.

PayPal said it will pay about $370 million for VeriSign's payments business, which last year processed more than $40 billion in transactions. And eBay said it will combine VeriSign's payment operations with its own merchant services platform. "PayPal plans to accelerate its merchant services business by expanding its customer base to tens of thousands of new small- and medium-sized business customers online," the two companies said in a statement announcing the deal.

http://www.greensheet.com/PriorIssues-/051002-/11.htm

Sony BMG rootkit DRM is Spyware

Italy's ALCEI-EFI (Association for Freedom in Electronic Interactive Communications - Electronic Frontiers Italy) has complained to the head of

Italy's cyber-crime investigation unit, Colonel Umberto Rapetto of the Guardia di Finanza, about the Sony BMG rootkit DRM.

http://p2pnet.net/story/6925

Stealing content

The RIAA and to a lesser extent the MPAA would like us to believe that every song or movie illegally downloaded equates to a lost sale for that product. Of course that is not true.

http://p2pnet.net/story/6926

Head of Engineering Leaves Skype

Toivo Annus, the head of engineering at Skype is leaving the company. This has been confirmed in Estonian press reports while Skype-News is first to announce to the world.

Toivo is head of engineering in the Tallinn office in

Estonia where Skype is engineered and is guardian of the P2P (peer to peer) secrets of Skype. He will stay on until December 31st to assist new head of engineering, Ott Kaukver.

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=429436

Why the New Crop of Downloadable TV Services from CBS and NBC Suck

Like a deer caught in the headlights, so are the days of our lives.

Om Malik is out with a post on the recent CBS and NBC download announcements and states: "They want to allow downloads of their popular television shows like CSI and Law and Order: SVU. For 99 cents they will make these shows available for replays on (CBS) Comcast/ (NBC) DirecTV. CBS will allow you to have the privilege of paying a buck for watching the shows with commercials after they have aired. No you cannot take it to go like ABC shows on Video iPod. No it won't playback on your PC. So in essence you are paying for something you can currently do for free if you own a TiVo/DVR, or even use one of the DVR set-top boxes sold by either Comcast or DirecTV."

http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/1622/why_the_new

DRM maker denies plans to shatter iPod users' eardrums

DRM maker SunnComm has denied that it is behind a new form of technology that would paralyze iPod users downloading illegal songs with high-pitched screams pumped through their headphones.

SunnComm on Tuesday issued a statement that "published reports circulating online that state SunnComm is creating a new kind of DRM under a joint venture with a competitor named Macrovision" are "absolutely not true." The "reports" or rather report in question claimed that SunnComm and Macrovision had teamed with Apple and Microsoft to create a DRM system that would scorch the earbuds of naughty P2P users with 250 decibels of screams. Of course, 250 decibels would be quite the accomplishment since a rocket firing from a launching pad comes in at 180 decibels and a shotgun reaches just 170 decibels. You can see where this is going.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/09/sunncomm_drm_ear/

'I'm not a sucker ...

The audio module on one of my VCRs blew yesterday. I know because every time I record a show the video portion records fine, but the audio comes from the existing program I had taped over. My house is filled with used tapes. I have saved older programs on a few of them, but the rest are just copied over again and again. As I understand it this is how everyone else records broadcast entertainment, to time shift.

http://p2pnet.net/story/6920

Video iPod May Find New Fans

Apple has maintained an impressive success story with its iPod MP3 player. By far the most popular of MP3 players, its popularity has been greatly aided by the billions of files traded over P2P networks every month. The 600 million or so DRM tracks downloaded off of iTunes since 2003 hasn't hurt much either.

http://www.slyck.com/news.php?story=984

Grokster Settles For $50M?

Grokster yesterday reached a settlement with RIAA, MPAA & other entities representing Big Entertainment (we had Big Tobacco, then Big Pharma.... ) who had sued it in 2002 for offering software which allowed people to exchange files. Since most of the files “traded” (downloaded) were owned by five big record labels who had secured most of the money making value of those songs through far reaching Copyright laws that they pay $35M/year to have made, they were pretty miffed and continue to seek recompense where they can find it.

http://www.slashfilm.com/article.php/20051109085402258