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Net watchdog inserts self in Googlebooks pact
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| Warning that Google's $125m digital library settlement with American authors
| and publishers provides exactly zero privacy protection for the world's
| readers, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has filed a motion
| in federal court to intervene in the hotly-debated Google Book Search case.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/04/epic_googlebooks_intervention/
Google books deal battle heats up
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8237271.stm
Advocates: Google Books can bridge digital divide
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| Blind people, for example, have access to a special library run by the
| Library of Congress that converts print books into formats readable by the
| visually impaired, but that library--in existence since 1931--only has 70,000
| texts, said Chris Danielsen, director of public relations for the National
| Federation of the Blind. If the settlement is approved in October, it will
| give "print-disabled" people "access to more books than we have ever had in
| human history," he said.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10344818-265.html
Recent:
BSA Jumps Onto The Three Strikes Bandwagon
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| More troubling, however, is that when questioned about the new statement by
| Ars Technica, the BSA said it was necessary because "last year our industry
| lost over $50 billion (USD) worldwide." Hmm. It's really quite troubling that
| the BSA still stands by these numbers when they've been debunked so
| thoroughly over and over again. They count the "retail value" of every piece
| of software as being "lost," which is clearly a lie. Five years ago, the
| research company that runs these studies for the BSA, IDG, flat out said that
| the BSA was wrong in claiming that "the retail value" of the software is the
| same as "losses." So why does the BSA continue to get away with claiming it?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090831/0230056052.shtml
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