__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 26 September 2006 05:54 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Monday 25 September 2006 23:41 \__
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> British Library calls for digital copyright action
>>>>
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>>>>| In a manifesto released on Monday at the Labor Party Conference
>>>>| in Manchester, the United Kingdom's national library warned that the
>>>>| country's traditional copyright law needs to be extended to fully
>>>>| recognize digital content.
>>>>|
>>>>| "Unless there is a serious updating of copyright law to recognize
>>>>| the changing technological environment, the law becomes an ass,"
>>>>| Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library, told ZDNet
>>>>| UK.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6119043.html
>>>>
>>>> It's /not/ the first time that British libraries warm about the dangers
>>>> of DRM (encryption). Perhaps DRM will reach its demise before Vista is
>>>> even released.
>>>
>>> For our US readers, an ass is a donkey, not an arse. Although you can
>>> sit on both an arse and an ass at the same time. Read Shakespeare's A
>>> Midsummer Night's Dream for more... or better still, go to see it.
>>
>> That Labor Conference is keeping me away from the gym for a week (it shut
>> the hotel). Well, this gives me 15 more hours on the Net. *smile*
>
> Ah, yes, I saw some of Gordon Brown's speech. He's used the
> "anti-american" phrase again, so I'm totally put off. I'm used to yanks
> professing not to know the difference between being anti-US government
> policy and disliking yanks or not, but for a potential British Prime
> Minister to be unable to recognise that these two are not the same is
> unforgivable.
Yes, I love American but despise the current government. I might as well
point out that I know what every American whom I know (family included)
thinks of the current government, so blaming them for anything is an
impossibility.
Best wishes,
Roy
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