Stories by Ann Harrison

Article | 12/09/2003 Alleged music pirate pleads guilty
The alleged former leader of a music file-uploading group called the Apocalypse Crew has reportedly submitted a guilty plea to the U.S. Department of ...
Article | 11/09/2003 Accused file trader fights back
A New York woman, identified only as "nycfashiongirl," has become the first alleged illegal file trader to fight a copyright subpoena served by the mu...
Article | 20/08/2003 Universities beat back RIAA subpoenas
A Massachusetts court recently ruled in favour of an attempt by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Boston College to protect the identity o...
Article | 20/06/2003 Asia-Pacific P2P users under scrutiny
The Business Software Alliance has sent out a Web crawler targeting Asian users of file swapping services, according to an online news report.
Article | 18/06/2003 RIAA sues Streamcast over nonexistent radio
Streamcast Network, developer of the Morpheus file sharing software, is being sued again by the recording industry, this time for a Web radio service ...
Article | 4/06/2003 Apple breaks playlist sharing
Apple, the company that likes to "Think Different," followed predictable thinking and disabled its playlist sharing feature in the latest release of ...
Article | 22/04/2003 Apple reported eyeing Universal Music
Earlier this month, various news wires reported that Apple is considering offering $6 billion for Vivendi Universal's Universal Music Group division. ...
Article | 21/03/2003 Kazaa launches hip-hop TV show
Digital broadcaster Pseudo.com says it plans to release a weekly TV show on the Kazaa file sharing system.
Article | 18/09/2002 StreamCast fights back
Attorneys for StreamCast Networks, which developed the Morpheus file sharing software, filed briefs in a federal court on Sept. 9 seeking a ruling tha...
Article | 2/08/2000 Hackers' Delight: Security Holes Abound at DefCon
Unsuspecting attendees logging on to the wireless network at the Def Con hackers convention here last weekend immediately found themselves targets in ...
Article | 2/08/2000 Hackers - Naughty and Nice
"We apologise for the delay," said the Def Con press attache. "The CIA is caucusing in the men's room." Ann Harrison wraps up DefCon8, where the US Go...
Article | 18/05/2000 MS Office paper clip not just annoying
The Microsoft Office Assistant, the talking paper clip that Microsoft has cited as an example of its software innovation during the government's antit...
Article | 16/05/2000 IE users warned: Close cookie jar
Users of Internet Explorer on Windows platforms are being advised to turn off JavaScript to prevent their cookie files from being read by hostile webs...
Article | 15/05/2000 Cookie data in IE may be vulnerable to snooping
Users of Internet Explorer on Windows platforms are being advised to turn off JavaScript to prevent their cookie files from being read by hostile Web ...
Article | 20/04/2000 FBI Investigating Missing State Department Laptop
The U.S. State Department said this week that the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is leading an investigation into the disappearance two months a...

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