Copyright pirates face crackdown
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| ...the report recognised the ease of copying material can be useful
| to the economy and backed a strictly limited private copying
| exception.
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| This would mean "format swapping" like putting music from a CD
| onto an MP3 player - theoretically illegal under present laws -
| would be allowed.
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| Mr Gowers says: "The ideal IP system creates incentives for
| innovation, without unduly limiting access for consumers and
| follow-on innovators."
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6214108.stm
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Publish And Perish
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| Alexander Rose, the executive director of the futurist Long Now
| Foundation, worries about the impermanence of digital information.
| "If you save that computer for 100 years, will the electrical plugs
| look the same?" he asks. "The Mac or the PC--will they be around?
| If they are, what about the software? " So far there's no business
| case for digital preservation--in fact, for software makers like
| Microsoft, planned obsolescence is the plan.
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| "The reality is that it's in companies' interest that software should
| become obsolete and that you should have to buy every upgrade,"
| Rose says. We could be on the cusp of a turning point, though, in the
| way businesses and their customers think about digital preservation.
| "Things will start to change when people start losing all of their personal
| photos," Rose said.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/30/books-information-preservation-tech-media_cx_ee_books06_1201acid.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yyjqoh
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