EDUPAGE> Edupage, January 14, 2004
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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 16:23:13 -0700
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TOP STORIES FOR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 2004
Penn State Students Flock to New Napster Service
British Recording Industry Threatens Lawsuits
PeopleSoft Extends Customer Assurance Program
New Antispam Working Group
PENN STATE STUDENTS FLOCK TO NEW NAPSTER SERVICE
Within 24 hours of the launch of the new Napster service at
Pennsylvania State University, more than 3,000 students signed up and
downloaded around 100,000 songs. Last fall the university signed a deal
to provide Napster 2.0--a legal reincarnation of the original
file-trading service--to its students. Penn State students can download
songs to their computers for free and keep them until they leave the
university. For 99 cents per song, students can copy songs to portable
music players or CDs. University officials called the rollout a
success, saying network traffic did not cause problems and that most
students had no trouble registering. The goal of the program, according
to Russell S. Vaught, assistant vice provost for information
technology, is to help students understand the legal implications of
file trading and break the cycle of trading copyrighted files. The
service is initially available to students on the university's
University Park campus, but eventually will be extended to all of Penn
State's 83,000 students.
Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 January 2004 (sub. req'd)
http://chronicle.com/prm/daily/2004/01/2004011402n.htm
BRITISH RECORDING INDUSTRY THREATENS LAWSUITS
A trade group representing the British recording industry has
threatened legal action against individual file sharers in the United
Kingdom. The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said that as music
piracy continues, the odds increase that the group will pursue legal
action against illegal file traders. Andrew Yeates, the director
general of the BPI, said his organization hopes that new, legal online
music services will persuade users to abandon the practice of swapping
copyrighted music files online. If illegal file trading declines, said
Yeates, legal action might be avoided. Critics said the BPI's threat
is misplaced because album sales rose 7.6 percent last year. The BPI
attributed that rise to there being many good releases and noted that
sales of singles--which are easily obtained illegally online--fell 30
percent last year.
BBC, 14 January 2004
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3395161.stm
PEOPLESOFT EXTENDS CUSTOMER ASSURANCE PROGRAM
PeopleSoft has announced an extension of its Customer Assurance
Program, which stipulates that customers are entitled to refunds of
software licensing fees in the event that a company acquires PeopleSoft
and discontinues its products. The refunds range from two to five times
the purchase cost, which could amount to a liability of more than $800
million for an acquiring company. The program has been extended until
March 31 or until Oracle withdraws its bid to take over PeopleSoft.
Oracle's current offer will expire February 13, though that deadline
has been extended six times already. Oracle officials have criticized
the Customer Assurance Program as being in the best interest of
PeopleSoft's management, not its customers. Oracle and some PeopleSoft
shareholders have sued PeopleSoft, asking the court to force the
company to end the program.
CNET, 13 January 2004
http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-5140594.html
NEW ANTISPAM WORKING GROUP
A group of ISPs and other telecom firms have announced the creation of
a new working group to address the problem of spam. Led by Openwave,
the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) includes Abranet, Bell
Canada, Bell South, Cox, Internet Initiative Japan, Telus, and IIJ
America. One of the group's initial targets will be IP spoofing, which
makes e-mails appear to come from a source that did not send them. Such
tactics have been used to great effect in the spread of malicious code
including the Swen and, recently, Xombe viruses because many users are
fooled into opening attachments that appear to come from Microsoft. A
similar working group was created by AOL, Yahoo, and Microsoft last
April.
Internet News, 14 January 2004
http://www.internetnews.com/xSP/article.php/3299401
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