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Dutch government study: net effect of P2P use is positive
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| The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs commissioned a study by research
| company TNO about how much Dutch Internet users download music, movies, and
| games, and what the social and economic effects of this downloading are. This
| resulted in a nearly 150-page report (Dutch) with many tables of percentages
| in it. The report differentiates between paid and unpaid downloads and talks
| about file sharing, eschewing the word "illegal." In the Netherlands, only
| uploading copyrighted music and movies is against the law. "Unpaid downloads"
| include officially licensed promotional content.
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http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/01/dutch-government-study-net-effect-of-p2p-use-is-positive.ars
Week in tech policy: "First thing, let's kill all the lawyers" edition
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| Software patents have been a fantastic source of innovation... among patent
| attorneys. Their value to the software industry as a whole is rather more
| dubious. But are they even legitimate? The Supreme Court hasn't directly
| addressed the question in decades, but in a thorough analysis for Ars, Tim
| Lee finds reason to think they're the legal equivalent of vaporware.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/01/the-week-in-politics-first-thing-lets-kill-all-the-lawyers-edition.ars
Recent:
88% of YouTube is New and Original Content, Professor Says
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| If you can watch it without dropping your litigation against YouTube, Viacom,
| you need to see a doctor right away. Seriously. I hope YouTube lawyers play
| it for the judge if you insist on going to trial.
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| Watch the part about the song that ended up being professionally released. It
| made the company some money. Cluestick: there is more than one business
| model, for those who can get with the new. Sooner or later, your shareholders
| will be furious with you if you don't course-correct and modernize. Yes. They
| will. Eventually, your shareholders will be YouTubers, you know. And you'll
| be what media used to be.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080803232159314
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