I´ve been too tied up with other things to blog lately. This came in a few weeks ago from Fred Luk

Playa Cofi Jukebox , an on-line music site just went off-line today. It posts on its website that "The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) has "advised" us that our delivery of user selectable streaming audio music "...distributes copies of digital files of RIAA member sound recordings to end users," and is therefore in violation of the member artist copyrights."

I guess technically, the site does violate copyrights laws since I don't suppose they pay any royalties like the radio stations do.

I have been listening to music on that site for only a month or so. It's great - I listen to great hits of different years in the background while doing work on the computer. Two days ago, links to music (hits) after 1964 were taken off. Today, the above message appears. But it also says: "We will take a few days to find a new way to provide you with the music you love at this site." It will be interesting to see what kind of "new way" they will come up with and how long will it take the RIAA to catch up with it.

Hi,

Here's a piece of good news from Finland, Europa regarding the new copyright directive. The Finnish district courts deemed CSS to be an ineffective copy protection scheme and thus did not afford the protection to it given by the copyright directive.

http://www.turre.com/blog/?p=102