国内大事记编辑本段回目录
国外大事记编辑本段回目录
For the third time in five weeks, the website of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) comes under online attack by activists irate about the group’s legal efforts to put an end to music-swapping. The website of the RIAA is defaced with the message, “The RIAA wishes to apologise for the heavy-handed manner in which the popular Chinese site Listen4Ever was closed down, and would like to present the following items for free download as a token of its goodwill,” and several copyrighted MP3 files were uploaded to the server. The site’s network administrators are shut down the site to look for the hole in its Web server. Additionally, the defaced site features faux links such as, “Inside the RIAA with Eric Cartman” and “Piracy can be beneficial to the music industry,” as well as a real link entitled, “Where can I find information on giant monkeys?” which takes browsers to the biography of Hilary Rosen, the chief executive officer of the RIAA.
Google unveils its Android Market, an online software store for applications that run onAndroid devices. The Market is designed to compete with Apple’s App Store. The Market will be opened to users on October 22, 2008. Visit the official Android Market website.