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It’s a book! Two Bits
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| The book is called Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software, and
| it is produced by the punkrockingest press ever, Duke University Press. It is
| now available for purchase, for download and for derivation and remixing.
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http://savageminds.org/2008/06/06/its-a-book-two-bits/
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
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| Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)—
| including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization
| meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct
| action protests against multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague,
| Barcelona, Genoa, and Cancun.
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http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=978-0-8223-4269-4
Recent:
Embattled ACTA Negotiations Next Week In Geneva; US Sees Signing This Year
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| Criticism from NGOs
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| Canadian law expert David Fewer, staff counsel at the University of Ottawa’s
| Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, told the Ottawa Citizen
| that the discussion paper was very close to a potential Christmas wish-list
| by Hollywood companies.
|
| Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), in an earlier statement filed to USTR,
| warned against a lack in differentiation and clearness of core terms, like
| counterfeiting, infringement or piracy. “Is Microsoft a “pirate” for
| insisting on the right to continue to infringe the z4 patents in order to use
| an infringing DRM technology to protect Microsoft software itself from
| infringement by unauthorised uses?” KEI asked in its statement.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1071
Related:
The British Library - "The world's knowledge" DRM'd and for a price
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| DRM is part of the plan, and I encourage you to read the entire Microsoft
| document. It would make my grandmother roll over in her grave. Some of the
| librarians at the British Library are deeply troubled too about what DRM is
| doing to libraries. How will we access the materials if the DRM company goes
| out of business someday?
|
| If they duplicate what they have done at the British Library, I think it's
| fair to say that it is the death of public libraries as we have known them,
| and the world's knowledge will be available only DRM'd and for a price.
|
| P.S. DRM doesn't work.
| It won't block any serious criminals.
| All it does is annoy and degrade the honest
| ... and give monopolies a way to stay that way.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060317044847293
Microsoft: We Like DRM
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| Steve Jobs wants the music business to drop restrictions for digital
| tunes. But Microsoft, which began competing head to head with Apple
| in the digital music business last fall, is happy with the way things
| are, says media exec Robbie Bach.
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http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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