The Movie Industry’s 200% Error
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| A week ago today, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) issued
| what had to be a hugely embarrassing news release acknowledging that an
| aggressively promoted and widely cited research report commissioned by the
| MPAA in 2005 significantly overstated the Internet-based peer-to-peer piracy
| of college students: “The 2005 study had incorrectly concluded that 44
| percent of the motion picture industry’s domestic losses were attributable to
| piracy by college students.
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http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/01/29/green
Who's the "pirate" now? These are thugs, just like Microsoft+BSA.
Related:
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
Comcast Isn’t Net Neutral; Are They Liars, Too?
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| Following reports that Comcast isn’t net neutral, Consumerist blog has
| acquired several leaks from Comcast insiders, claiming that they do indeed
| use Sandvine for packet shaping, and that customer service representatives
| are being told nothing about how the network technology works,
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http://mashable.com/2007/10/26/comcast-isnt-net-neutral-are-they-liars-too/
Brit violinist does a Radiohead
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| Ms Little, 42, is giving the whole thing, entitled The Naked Violin, away
| absolutely free - thereby allowing music buffs to avoid the terrible dilemma
| posed by the In Rainbows "pay-what-you-fancy" net launch: to not pay anything
| for the album and not give a tinker's cuss; or to not pay anything and feel
| mildly guilty for about ten minutes.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/classical_music_download/
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