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MPAA Gets Town To Turn Off Free Muni-WiFi Over Single Unauthorized Movie Download
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| Amazingly, rather than admit that perhaps
| that was going a bit too far in punishing
| everyone in that town over a single
| individual's usage, the MPAA couldn't
| resist the opportunity to complain about
| the evils of movie piracy again. The MPAA
| doesn't seem concerned at all about the
| collateral damage, and just thinks that
| it's a good opportunity to push ahead with
| its misguided complaint against file
| sharing.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091110/0744136875.shtml
Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure
free online access to federally funded research results
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| Washington, DC â âFor America to obtain an
| optimal return on our investment in
| science, publicly funded research must be
| shared as broadly as possible,â is the
| message that forty one Nobel Prize-winning
| scientists in medicine, physics, and
| chemistry gave to Congress in an open
| letter delivered yesterday. The letter
| marks the fourth time in five years that
| leading scientists have called on Congress
| to ensure free, timely access to the
| results of federally funded research â this
| time asking leaders to support the Federal
| Research Public Access Act of 2009
| (S.1373).
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http://www.taxpayeraccess.org/news/news_releases/09-1110.shtml
Recent:
60 Minutes Puts Forth Laughable, Factually Incorrect MPAA Propaganda On Movie Piracy
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| CBS's 60 Minutes has made itself out to be
| more of a laughingstock than usual when it
| comes to "investigative reporting," putting
| on an episode about "video piracy" that is
| basically 100% MPAA propaganda, without any
| fact checking or any attempt to challenge
| the (all MPAA connected) speakers, or to
| include anyone (anyone!) who would present
| a counterpoint. The episode is funny in
| that it contradicts itself at times (with
| no one noticing it) and gets important (and
| easily checked) facts wrong. And, of
| course, it basically mimics that old
| episode that history has shown to have been
| totally (laughably) false.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091101/1818186751.shtml
Dear Hulu: Stop Treating Me Like A Criminal
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| The problem the industry is facing isn't due
| to some guy in Europe catching The Colbert
| Report from across the sea. It comes from
| turning off legitimate customers and users
| who are sick of being treated like crap.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20091102/0346396760.shtml
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