Quiet Times

Its been a fairly quiet week on the p2p front although things are likey to heat up again next week when the Kazaa appeal commences. Here's some interesting links to keep you going:
(Re: the new citation style - sorry but it will help me when I come to write my thesis)

Sony's disaster:
J. Alex Halderman and Edward W. Felton, Lessons from the Sony CD DRM Episode (14 February 2006) <http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/pub/sonydrm-ext.pdf> at 16 February 2006

Australians have long desired fair use provisions as wide as the USA (still illegal to timeshift or rip a CD here) but perhaps the USA provisions are under threat:
Electronic Frontiers Foundation, RIAA Says Ripping CDs to Your iPod is NOT Fair Use (15 February 2006)<http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004409.php> at 17 February 2006

Richard Stallman interview downplays the Creative Commons Licenses:
p2pnet.net, Richard Stallman interview (6 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7840> at 16 February 2006

Nettwerk Music on their disagreement with RIAA about individual prosecutions:
p2pnet.net, p2pnet talks to Nettwerk Music (14 February 2006) <http://p2pnet.net/story/7923> at 16 February 2006

The inquiry into wholesale digital downloads continues in New York:
CNet News.com, New York focuses antitrust probe of record labels (14 February 2006) <http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-6039470.html> at 16 February 2006

New political party in Sweeden hoping to overturn recent copyright ammendments that outlawed file sharing:
The Guardian, Pirates pursue a political point (9 February 2006) <http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1705100,00.html> at 13 February 2006