Comment Re:Illegal numbers? (Score 2, Interesting) 405

by MrDomino on Friday May 04, 2007 @02:01PM (#18991849) Attached to: Congress Asks Universities To Curb Piracy

NB, all digital representations (including, yes, those of songs and movies) are at base level just numbers.

SGI Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 316

Posted by Hemos on Monday May 08, 2006 @08:53AM from the yet-again dept.

audi100quattro writes "The WSJ has a story about SGI filing for bankruptcy, but the SGI Investor's Relation page doesn't say anything." Nothing else really known at this point, but this is not unexpected.

RIAA Targets LAN Filesharing at Universities 608

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 01, 2006 @09:56PM from the stop-sharing dept.

segphault writes "The RIAA has sent letters to 40 university presidents in 25 separate states informing them that students are engaging in filesharing on their campuses using the local network. Apparently, the RIAA wants to get universities to use filtering software on their networks to detect student filesharing. The RIAA did not disclose the methodology they used to determine that filesharing is occuring on those local networks, but it probably didn't involve asking permission. The article goes on to predict that the RIAA will eventually try to get the government to require use of anti-filesharing filtering technologies at universities."

2006 ACM Programming Contest Complete 180

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @07:01PM from the all-wrappered-up dept.

prostoalex writes "World finals for 2006 ACM programming contest took place in San Antonio, TX this year, and the results are in. Russia's Saratov State University solved 5 contest problems in record time, followed closely by Altai State Technical University (Russia) with 5 problems solved as well. University of Twente (Netherlands), Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China), Warsaw University (Poland), St. Petersburg State University (Russia), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Moscow State University (Russia), University of Waterloo (Canada) and Jagiellonian University - Krakow (Poland) all completed 4 problems."

The End of Naked PCs in China? 221

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 12, 2006 @08:43AM from the i-didn't-know-they-even-bought-software dept.

fishter writes "The Chinese Government is calling on PC manufacturers to ensure that a properly licensed operating system is installed on their products before they leave the factory. One manufacturer has already signed a deal with Microsoft to install its operating systems on all its personal PC products. The edict would also apply to foreign manufacturers supplying PCs to Chinese companies and residents."

Germany Accepts Strict Piracy Law 478

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Saturday March 25, 2006 @04:04PM from the slap-on-the-wrist-that-takes-the-whole-hand dept.

A beautiful mind writes "The TimesOnline is reporting that Germany has accepted a new piracy law, currently the toughest in Europe, which comes into effect on January 1, 2007. From the article: 'Germans risk two years in prison if they illegally download films and music for private use under a new law agreed yesterday. Anybody who downloads films for commercial use could be jailed for up to five years.' Many politicians defended the new law, amongst them Günther Krings, the Christian Democrat legal affairs spokesman, who claimed: 'There should be no legal distinction between stealing chewing gum from a shop and performing an illegal download.'"