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License to Kill Innovation: the Broadcast Flag for UK Digital TV?
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| In the United States, rightsholders claimed that without
| DRM, digital TV would herald an age of uncontrolled piracy
| and they would have no choice but to boycott a flag-less
| terrestrial digital TV transition. At the time, one of EFF's
| counter-arguments pointed to the movie companies' continuing
| involvement in an earlier, successful, and DRM-free digital
| TV model - in Britain, which began to switch digital TV in
| 2007. We called the rightsholders' bluff. Despite their
| bluster, they continue to participate, and profit, in both
| British and American digital TV markets.
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| It turns out that the sky does not fall if Hollywood doesn't
| control your home devices. The British and American
| experiences prove that. Ofcom and the BBC should stand firm
| to their commitment to the historical success and the future
| public interest of British terrestrial TV, and refuse to
| create this license to kill innovation.
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http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/broadcast-flag-uk
Broadcast flag rears vile head, bars viewer from recording
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| Is the broadcast flag rearing its ugly head yet again over a
| show about a California motorcycle gang trying to keep the
| lid on cops, druggies, and "corporate developers"? One Ars
| reader had his analog hole unwillingly plugged when he tried
| to record Sons of Anarchy last week.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/09/broadcast-flag-rears-vile-head-bars-viewer-from-recording.ars
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No need to burn books you can't read - DRM and public libraries
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| As my correspondent says: "After all that I still couldn't open the document
| (which I've only opened once before) and got this. Now I know I haven't
| opened the document at another computer because this is my only computer with
| a printer - so I didn't open it anywhere else. I am never using this service
| again. The British Library, Microsoft and Adobe can go shove their DRM up
| their document delivery service exit. "
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| This, let me reiterate, is a public body providing publicly paid-for research
| to a highly-qualified professional engaged in impeccable work for the public
| service.
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| It is hard to imagine something more expensive, condescending, inaccurate,
| frustrating and enraging â nor something better calculated to restrict
| knowledge and broadcast ignorance.
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| It's almost as if the parties involved actively want to prevent people
| learning. It certainly feels that way.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009526o-2000331777b,00.htm
Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
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| The phrase âAmazon ate my homeworkâ may certainly have been uttered on more
| than one occasion since the New York Times reported on Amazonâs deletion of
| specific editions of George Orwellâs Animal Farm and 1984 from Kindle e-book
| readers (and no, the irony wasnât lost on anybody). Unless you live under a
| rock, you know that this has been a bit of a discussion topic in the
| blogosphere. However, the first time Iâd heard it put that way was in an
| email exchange on which I was lurking today, when Daniel Dern, an independent
| technology writer, made specific reference to the notes/annotations lost by a
| particular student.
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http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2827
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