Making sure it still works.

Campus seeks to caution students
In response to daily complaints from the entertainment industry, University officials continued to raise awareness about illegal file-sharing Monday in a full-page ad placed in The Daily Tar Heel.

ACLU backs student in case
A local battle over illegal file-sharing took a turn Friday as the American Civil Liberties Union joined the fray on the side of a UNC student accused of making songs available for download.

Itunes Hacker
Knowledge of this hack has been circulating in certain circles for a couple weeks. CNN finally picked up on it... Providing some insight on the Norwegian hacker who cracked itunes.

Small film companies sue over screener ban
Small movie production companies sued the Motion Picture Association of America Monday to try to force an end to a partial ban by Hollywood studios on sending special video copies to awards groups.

University of Florida Banning Users Who Download Copyrighted Files
An interesting approach for a University. U of F has decided to not just block the uploading of copyrighted files (so far the only people subpoenaed by the RIAA have been uploading files) but to also disconnect users who *download* files. What are the ethical ramifications for this, and is this an abuse of authority?

Daily Tarheel - Business School Ban on Filesharing Applications
More information on the troubling ban of filesharing applications at our business school effective December 1, 2003.

Apple's iTunes DRM Broken?
A Register.co.uk article reports that the author of DeCSS has written a small command line Windows utility (QTFairUse) which "will dump the output of a QuickTime stream to a file". The Quicktime stream in question are AAC files.

Penn State inks deal with Napster
In what could be the first step toward curbing the illegal download fiasco on college campuses, Penn State and Napster have signed an agreement to provide digital music to students for free.

Students air file-sharing concerns
Two focus group discussions gave UNC students the opportunity to voice their opinions on file-sharing at the University on Monday night, shortly after the Recording Industry Association of America's crackdown on Internet file-sharing hit UNC.