What piracy crisis? MPAA touts record box office for 2007
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| After learning how a bill becomes a law, your kids might also learn about the
| wonders of copyright, thanks to the MPAA. The motion picture trade group has
| signed an agreement with the popular Weekly Reader publication for kids that
| will highlight "canine crime-fighting ambassadors Lucky and Flo." That's
| right: DVD-sniffing dogs will educate children about the value of copyrights
| in a "fun and exciting way." Sounds like a blast.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080305-for-movie-biz-tales-of-piracy-and-record-profits.html
They are close to Microsoft (examples below).
Quote for the day:
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
Related:
Can Microsoft teach tots digital-age virtue?
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| The basis of Redmond's pitch was a small survey they sponsored where nearly
| half of the kids polled said they were unfamiliar with the rules and
| guidelines of using copyrighted media. Microsoft figured tots would be less
| inclined to steal someone's IP if they knew about the alleged consequences.
|
| A lot of digital ink was used to slam Microsoft's scheme. People need Redmond
| telling them about IP rules like they need Pavorotti schooling them about a
| well-balanced diet.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/27/microsoft_ip_curriculum_look/
Threat Of Jail Time Increases Respect For Copyright, Microsoft Says
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| It's not clear whether Microsoft's statement to teen respondents -- "When you
| do not follow these rules you are open to significant fines and possibly jail
| time" -- is entirely accurate, particularly when teens under the age of 18
| are involved. Emily Berger, an intellectual property fellow at the Electronic
| Frontier Foundation, is skeptical. "I think it's being used as a scare
| tactic," she said. "It's a real stretch of the law to say it's theoretically
| possible."
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http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206503467
Microsoft training youth to love intellectual property
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| Take, for example, its commitment to help teenagers understand the importance
| of respecting intellectual property (read: giving Microsoft more money). It
| just put out a survey showing that when kids understand the rules of
| copyright, they're "less likely to download illegally."
|
| [...]
|
| The one thing it didn't explain to teens is why they should retrofit
| 20th-century copyright laws onto 21st-century realities. Digitization is a
| fact. The web is a fact. Intellectual property is not the same as real,
| tangible property, and should be treated and monetized differently.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9871636-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Troubling "Digital Theft Prevention" Requirements Remain in Higher Education
Bill
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| To those unfamiliar with this particular sort of DC
| double-speak, "alternatives to illegal downloading" means industry-sanctioned
| download services; and existing "technology-based deterrents" means network
| filters and other tools.
|
| These congressional requirements will turn out to be expensive dead-ends --
| the industry-sanctioned online music services are laden with DRM, and network
| detection/filtering programs present privacy risks and are inevitably
| rendered obsolete by technological countermeasures.
|
| [...]
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| The bill also would hang an unspoken threat over the heads of university
| administrators. In response to concerns that potential penalties for
| universities could include a loss of federal student aid funding, the MPAA's
| top lawyer in Washington said that federal funds should be at risk when
| copyright infringement happens on campus networks.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/01/digital-theft-prevention-requirements-remain-higher-education-bill
RIAA Website Wiped Clean by “Hackers”
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| Apparently the RIAA is so busy suing consumers that they forgot to hire a
| decent programmer. With a simple SQL injection, all their propaganda has been
| successfully wiped from the site.
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http://torrentfreak.com/riaa-website-hacked-080120/
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?
|
| 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
GPL killed the MPAA star
http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/gpl-killed-the-mpaa-star
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