EDUPAGE> Edupage, October 10, 2003
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TOP STORIES FOR FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2003
Company Threatens to Sue Student
Microsoft Announces Revised Patching Strategy
P2P Group Proposes Model for Legal Online Music
School District Sued for Wi-Fi Health Hazard
COMPANY THREATENS TO SUE STUDENT
SunnComm Technologies said it will likely sue John "Alex" Halderman, a
graduate student at Princeton University, after Halderman published a
paper explaining how to defeat CD copy protections developed by
SunnComm. Halderman's paper pointed out SunnComm's copy protections
can be avoided simply by holding the "Shift" key when loading the
protected CD in a computer, which prevents the protection software from
installing. The paper also gave instructions for turning off the
software if it is installed. Peter Jacobs, CEO of SunnComm, said
Halderman had damaged the company's name and might be subject to
prosecution under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which
forbids circumventing copy-protection technologies. Some observers
believe that Halderman's actions fall outside the purview of the DMCA
because the paper was an academic publication, it uses features of all
Windows computers, and it was not distributed for profit.
CNET, 9 October 2003
http://news.com.com/2100-1025_3-5089168.html
MICROSOFT ANNOUNCES REVISED PATCHING STRATEGY
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer this week announced major changes to the
company's strategy for software patches. Acknowledging that the
current schedule of weekly patches is onerous for many users and that
the patching systems are cumbersome, Ballmer said that Microsoft would
begin issuing patches no more frequently than once a month, except for
emergency situations. Ballmer noted that the company's current total
of 68 different patching systems was "a little extreme" and that future
patches would be of better quality than some previous patches. Users
will also have the ability to roll back future patches in the event of
incompatibility or other problems. Ballmer added that future patches
would be 30 to 80 percent smaller to help avoid problems for users on
slow connections.
Internet News, 9 October 2003
http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3090001
P2P GROUP PROPOSES MODEL FOR LEGAL ONLINE MUSIC
A trade group representing the parent companies of peer-to-peer (P2P)
applications Kazaa and Altnet has offered something of an olive branch
to the recording industry. The Distributed Computing Industry
Association (DCIA) said that its plan for legally purchasing music
online could result in $900 million revenue per month for the recording
industry through Internet music sales. Marty Lafferty, chief executive
of the DCIA, said, "We are in an earn-your-trust mode." According to
the DCIA, the plan would work only if other P2P companies and ISPs
participated. Under the DCIA's plan, music labels would make
copy-protected songs available on P2P networks, and the providers of
those networks would charge users to decode the copy protections and
make the files playable. Billing would later shift to ISPs, which would
monitor files traded over their networks. Sarah Deutsch, associate
general counsel for Verizon, one of the nation's largest ISPs, noted
that ISPs do not want to get into the business of monitoring and
policing the Internet and that the proposed plan would "create the
world's most complicated billing system." A spokesman from the
Recording Industry Association of America acknowledged the group's
efforts toward a compromise but said the proposal is "hard to take
seriously" as long as the companies "continue to induce users to
violate the law."
Washington Post, 9 October 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A301-2003Oct8.html
SCHOOL DISTRICT SUED FOR WI-FI HEALTH HAZARD
Prompted by fears about the effects of wireless computer networks on
the health of children, parents in an Illinois school district have
filed a lawsuit asking that the Wi-Fi networks be discontinued. The
suit argues that current research calls into question the safety,
especially to children, of the radio waves that Wi-Fi networks use. The
Oak Park Elementary School District was one of the first to use such
networks, having set up its first wireless network in 1995. The school
district has said it will monitor ongoing research into the health
effects of Wi-Fi technology, but Steve Chowanski, director of
information services for the district, said, "We are not going to do
anything different. This is the wave of the future." Brian Grimm of the
Wi-Fi Alliance stated that Wi-Fi networks are safe and that his group
is unaware of any similar lawsuits.
Wired News, 9 October 2003
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60769,00.html
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