RIAA, MPAA - Access Denied: Part Deux

Ten thousand, two hundred and fifty three.

That's how many times .htaccess has so far been downloaded from the the Techfocus home site.

Techfocus interviewed EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) spokesman Fred Von Lohmann and the RIAA liked it so much that they used carefully chosen chunks to back up a couple of thoughts they were going blind trying to put across.

Read all about it here.

In the meanwhile, Techfocus' Bill Royle tells us the campaign to keep the RIAA and MPAA off the site was so successful that it's now become a full-blown project where the objective is to, "To block MPAA, RIAA and third-party enforcement, discovery and research affiliates from entering websites which oppose their presence.

"License: Open-source. License to be determined by the development team. There will be no charge for this technological measure, as we are striving to freeze out the RIAA, MPAA and third-party enforcement, discovery and research affiliates from the WWW."

There's a lot more and if this looks like the kind of thing you'd like to get into, go here.