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TechFocus bans the RIAA and MPAA

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Mon, 07/21/2003 - 14:24 — Christoph C. Cemper

TechFocus bans the RIAA and MPAA

In a first step towards protecting themselves from unauthorized use of their material, the tech news site TechFocus has banned the RIAA and MPAA from accessing the site.

Bill Royale posts: “Effective immediately, the RIAA and MPAA will need to find another way to get to Techfocus. In response to their legal targeting of individual file-swappers, access from their known networks to this site has now been blocked.”

This is in direct response to the RIAA’s unauthorized and out of context use of a TechFocus interview with the EFF’s Fred Von Lohmann that was used as a media catalyst for their rights to sue P2P song-swappers.

[via Lockergnome’s Bits and Bytes]

cool – i got the firewall deny list from peerguardian online aswell :)

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