Limewire does the Napster, begrudgingly buddying up with the the recording industry…

Limewire does the Napster, begrudgingly buddying up with the the recording industry…

Back in my younger years, Limewire was my Napster. For by the time I was old enough to understand how it all worked, Napster had already walked the walk. Well, Limewire put up a much longer fight, but they too are succumbing to the same organizations as Napster — the recording industry — in response to a court ruling late last year. Limewire: While this is not our ideal path, we hope to work with the music industry in moving forward. We look forward to...

Japanese Gov’t and music labels teaming up to “disable music functions of those who listen to unauthorized music”.

Japanese Gov’t and music labels teaming up to “disable music functions of those who listen to unauthorized music”.

Count me thoroughly impressed and disgusted by the actions that music labels and bass akwards governments will go to in the hope of preventing piracy innovation. If you thought certain “3-strikes” plans that kicked suspected, not convicted file sharers off the internet were bad enough, a new friendship forming in Japan may signal an even more daring assault on consumers’ rights. According to a report revealed by Elmundo, the Japanese government and one...