The Mac hits mainstream: a DNS trojan is circulating in the wild. Also, Leopard problems.

Trojan. No surprise, it was a matter of time. It starts with an email to try to get you to a porn site, when you click on a video it tells you that you don't have the proper codec and gives you the opportunity to download it. Classic social engineering. And apparently very good engineering of the trojan, also. (Slashdot thread)

Leopard Bugs. Again, no surprises. Which is why I'm waiting at least a couple of weeks to install it until a lot of the early bugs are stomped on.

This is SO me!

I love XKCD!

HAH! EMI accused of selling music illegally!

I wanna see the RIAA sue one of its members!

Apparently Robert Fripp & King Crimson had no agreement to allow digital sales of their library, and EMI did it anyway.

"After the licence (with EMI) expired," writes Fripp, "King Crimson tracks repeatedly appeared on various download websites licensed from EMI. If this had happened during the licence period, it would have been disturbing – even though shit happens and we should have gotten over it! - because EMI never had download rights from us."

This, mainly, is because when the licence period began, there was no such thing as downloads. Fripp says the EMI licence was subsequently not renewed because he and the band were not willing to approve download rights, "because the royalty terms offered sucked."

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"It’s a little too rich to punish punters for illegal downloads of EMI copyright material when EMI are themselves guilty of copyright violation. The response, many months ago, of the EMI lawyer (the one who also said "shit happens! get over it") effectively told us "I’ve done my best! we’ve told them to take it down!"

"This isn’t quite good enough when making publicly available the copyright material of others. How bad do EMI management systems have to be that the company has no power of control over its licensing to download companies?"

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/30/fripp-lays-music-industry-rip

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/01/2046251