copyright

FreeBe TV: Not just bad. Hella rubbish

Crave It's all a bunch of public domain videos that have presumably been abandoned by their former copyright holders. But we can't see the point in watching Internet video you can't even rewind, and we'll be damned if we'll pay over five thousand pounds...

Tags: watch, stream, television, mobile phone

19 October 2006, 11:00

Crave Talk: Can the Me-Too Tubes buy the zeitgeist?

Crave But is the YouTube audience really sat in their swivel chairs feeling slightly mournful that they may be infringing a copyright? Me-Too Tube has the mastodonic weight of copyright law on its side, though -- it seems smart to set up a competitor to...

Tags: youtube, copyright, university, zune

27 March 2007, 12:02

Let the people rip, says influential think tank

Crave If a law was passed to forbid breathing, it could hardly cause a more universal criminalisation of the western world than the laws of music copyright. The report also advises the government to resist the music industry's appeals for any advance on...

Tags: industry, consumers, government, job

30 October 2006, 11:37

Gamers fight back against Spore copy protection

Crave Enraged by what they call "draconian" copyright protections, thousands of people flooded Amazon.com to give the game a one-star rating. Electronic Arts imposed copyright protections that limited the number of times a user can install the game to...

Tags: itunes, arts, downloaded, electronic

15 September 2008, 9:56

Crave Talk: Should Shareapic share its shekels?

Crave Well, money being the root of all evil and that, some bloganthropes are concerned that such ideas will be magnets to spammers and copyright violators. Still, copyright-wise image-hosting is something of a minefield.

Tags: shareapic, money, youtube, views

12 December 2007, 10:35

PopCatcher MusicDock MD-601: Goodbye adverts

Crave PopCatcher is the latest in Scandinavian copyright rebellion -- it craftily isolates songs played on any FM, AM or Internet radio station, rips them into the friendly MP3 format and syncs them up to the docked MP3 player.

Tags: popcatcher, tracks, radio, played

5 March 2007, 11:01

HP MediaSmart TV: Clever show-it-all telly

Crave It's a BitTorrent copyright thief's dream come true -- all those hi-def flicks that are clogging up your hard drive can now be enjoyed in the living room without the hassle of wires. TVs aren't supposed to be clever.

Tags: hp, media center, media center pc, contrast

11 January 2007, 1:09

BenQ, Diino MyPix and Flickr: Photo storage update

Crave Diino enables you to store music files online and share with a 'stream-only' option that defeats copyright infringement. If you've tracked down a BenQ camera, such as the DC C1050 or DC E1000, any time in the last year you can claim a free 25GB...

Tags: benq, cent, storage, books

3 December 2007, 10:55

Photos: Lenovo IdeaPad S10 is officially gorgeous

Crave Less than one minute old.Copyright Stevie Wonder, 1976. We promised you more information on the Lenovo IdeaPad S9 and S10, and we weren't lying. Here are some excellent pictures courtesy of our pals over at CNET Taiwan.

7 August 2008, 14:13

Government wins: Major UK ISPs forced to fight piracy for BPI

Crave Instead, the BPI will be acting to identify customers it believes are engaging in copyright infringement. In what the British Phonographic Industry is calling a 'ground-breaking' agreement, the six largest ISPs in the UK are to send hundreds of...

Tags: sharing, identify, letters, industry

24 July 2008, 9:44

Philips Streamium WACS700: Worth a curt glance

Crave Yes, this thing has no concern for copyright violation; instead it trusts you as a responsible free-thinking individual not to outrageously pirate everything in sight. Much as we miss the 1980s, Philip's apparent resurrection of the Bang and...

Tags: philips, stations, hard disk, base

23 October 2006, 11:33

Philips DVDR5520H: Records TV, performs miracles

Crave Once you fill up the hard drive with Songs of Praise, you can burn them to DVD, but you'll probably not want to make a big song and dance about that, or the copyright police will be round to perform a full-body cavity search and take all your money.

Tags: philips, hard drive, air, watching

13 May 2008, 11:26

Crave Talk: Microsoft Zune -- a vision of the future

Crave Top executives in MS privately note that the company had survived both anti-trust legislation and copyright battles in the past. It's 2015 and Microsoft has killed the iPod. The distinctive grey headphones of Zune players are pushed into the ears...

Tags: microsoft, songs, itunes, vista

25 July 2006, 12:21

Toshiba Regza 52Z3030D: Big LCD TV, big performance

Crave These are supposed to revolutionise our viewing experience, but are mostly about having lots of copyright-protected logos to put on the stickers that are slathered over new TVs. In 2005, a 36-inch widescreen CRT was considered huge.

Tags: toshiba, colour, viewing, tvs

19 May 2008, 10:58

Home, home on the range: Buffalo SATA DriveStation

Crave Aside from this small niggle, the DriveStation's cathedral-like interior should keep us in BitTorrented movies for months (all legal of course; movies we shot and edited ourselves and hold full copyright to.

Tags: usb, desk, operation, paper

11 May 2006, 11:04