Who told you that reading a license is boring?
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| In the last 24 hours I implemented Licenses validation, whitelisting, masking
| and database support to Entropy. When I started, I tried to find out if
| someone (maybe crazy like me?) had already made a list of free (as in freedom
| and/or beer) software licenses. I didn’t dig too much and decided to have a
| look at /usr/portage/licenses. OMG, 811 licenses to read! Yeah, I read them
| all and I’ve found something really funny.
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http://planet.sabayonlinux.org/?p=84
The Microsoft licensed are very Redmond-centric, but have a look at the many
texts he extracted. Just wow!
Meanwhile, REM embraces 'open-source' to stay relevant and even thrive:
R.E.M., Open Source, and Staying Alive When an Industry Shifts
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| Having emerged from the early-'80s Amerindie movement, an assemblage of
| rock'n'roll bands with a combination of optimism and hardheadedness that
| mirrored the very best of the open source movement, R.E.M. knows it can't
| compete with what's at the top of the charts.
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http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2008/02/rem-open-source-and-staying-al.html
Related:
Radiohead, 'Juno' blast onto U.S. pop chart
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| Radiohead's “In Rainbows” album topped the U.S. sales chart this week,
| selling 122,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
|
| It arrived in stores in CD format on New Year's Day, nearly three months
| after the artsy British rock group unleashed the album to the Web at a cost
| to be determined by the user -- whatever price fans chose to pay, including
| nothing at all.
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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/extendedplay/2008/01/radiohead-juno.html
Free Radiohead music pirated
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| Big Champagne, a Los-Angeles-based company that tracks illegal downloading on
| the Internet said that while 1.2 million people legitimately downloaded the
| album online, 500,000 picked it up from torrent sites.
|
| [....]
|
| It has also had more copies sold. Radiohead's previous album sold only
| 300,000 copies in the first week.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/10/18/free-radiohead-music-pirated
Radiohead album bets on fast release, open pricing
,----[ Quote ]
| The release of popular rock group Radiohead's new album next week is the
| latest wake-up call for a music industry still struggling to deal with the
| advent of digital music, experts say.
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http://www.news.com/Radiohead-album-bets-on-fast-release%2C-open-pricing/2100-1025_3-6212107.html?tag=nefd.top
Music industry attacks Sunday newspaper's free Prince CD
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| The eagerly awaited new album by Prince is being launched as a free
| CD with a national Sunday newspaper in a move that has drawn
| widespread criticism from music retailers.
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http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2114557,00.html
The Charlatans Pull a Radiohead
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| Greg Sandoval over at WebWare made an interesting find, today: the UK band
| known as the Charlatans are joining Saul Williams and Radiohead with their
| next album release with a ‘name your own price’ mechanism for distribution.
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http://mashable.com/2008/01/25/charlatans-free-album/
Hollywood Goes Too Far to Protect Content
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| I first found out about the problem on New Year’s Eve, when I went to log
| into my account. When I tried to launch a streaming movie, I was greeted with
| an error message asking me to “reset” my DRM. Luckily, Netflix’s help page on
| the topic included a link to a DRM reset utility, but when I went to install
| the program, I stopped dead in my tracks when I saw this warning.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/58905-hollywood-goes-too-far-to-protect-content?source=yahoo
MPAA Admits Mistake on Downloading Study
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| But now the MPAA, which represents the U.S. motion picture industry, has told
| education groups a "human error" in that survey caused it to get the number
| wrong. It now blames college students for about 15 percent of revenue loss.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j33CBI8sUdc5ni7RlxSj5SIEc2mwD8UB6S0O2
Business Model Gone Bad: The Music and Movie Edition
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| How Realistic is this new Business Model?
|
| How realistic is this? I think it is very realistic.
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http://www.5thwind.com/?p=58
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