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When piracy isn't theft
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| The emancipatory potential of the free
| dissemination of intellectual property
| through infinite replication is
| overwhelming. Unlike private property that
| is subject to scarcity, supply and demand
| laws and other rigid determinations,
| immaterial property poses an explosive
| threat to our deeply rooted notions of
| proprietorship.
|
| It is not only because there can be
| potentially infinite owners of property that
| the internet redefines our notion of it. It
| is also that people who participate in the
| exchange of immaterial works do not treat
| them as property. When they exchange music,
| books or movies, they are not merely
| transferring ownership from themselves to
| others; they simply do not recognise
| themselves as owners in the first place.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/nov/24/file-sharing-free-piracy
Microsoft and News Corp.'s Deal With the Devil
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| It's an ugly rumor. There's no way Microsoft
| would resort to bribing Web sites to get
| delisted from Google, is there? I mean,
| aside from the restraint of trade issues and
| the callback to the tribulations the company
| went through with its dirty Internet
| Explorer tricks, Microsoft has learned to
| compete fairly, right? Not so, according to
| the reports stemming from a Financial Times
| article, which highlights the company's
| desire to team-up with Rupert Murdoch's News
| Corp., in order to screw Google.
|
| This whole thing began when Murdoch began to
| complain that Google was "stealing" News
| Corp. content. He demanded that the company
| pay a pittance or he would pull the plug,
| preventing Google from spidering its sites.
| Google searches provide between 25 and 50
| percent of the page views of just about any
| site. This includes blogs, newspapers,
| everything. Would Murdoch throw away 25 to
| 50 percent of his sites' revenue just to
| spite Google? Yeah, right.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2356258,00.asp
Is Google, like, Ovah?
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| The push by News International to get
| Mainstream media to de-list from Google is
| the latest and most public salvo in this war
| but it won't be the last. The Mainstream
| media is hurting badly, and - given the
| alternatives are pretty bleak - one option
| is to force Google to hand some of the
| surplus back by taking away their bat and
| ball elsewhere, reducing Google to search
| the "Long Tail of Crap" that is the rest of
| the Web (as far as the mainstream market is
| concerned, anyway). In fact, the latest
| twist in the tale, that Microsoft and News
| International are reaching a pact to delist
| from Google and go exclusively elsewhere,
| also illustrates the second trend...
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http://broadstuff.com/archives/1970-Is-Google,-like,-Ovah.html
Bing Tries To Buy The News
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/22/bing-tries-to-buy-the-news/
BBC: we won't charge for online news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/24/bbc-wont-charge-online-news
And Another Reason that Rupe is Wrong...
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| Poor Mr Murdoch, bless his cotton socks, is
| still thinking in terms of command and
| control - with him doing both; the Internet
| doesn't quite work like that - despite the
| best efforts of repressive governments
| around the world (I'm looking at *you*,
| Gordon).
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/and-another-reason-that-rupe-is-wrong.html
Rupert -- like Microsoft -- is a criminal.
Related:
Murdoch papers paid Â1m to gag phone-hacking victims
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| Rupert Murdoch's News Group NewsÂpapers has paid out more than Â1m to settle
| legal cases that threatened to reveal evidence of his journalists' repeated
| involvement in the use of criminal methods to get stories.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/08/murdoch-papers-phone-hacking
Times Online denies knowledge of link spam campaign
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| Piotr Wyspianski, a manager at Sitelynx, was revealed on the Waxy.org blog to
| have waged a one-man campaign to game web aggregation communities such as
| Digg, Metafilter and StumbleUpon with over a thousand links to Times Online
| stories. Before working for Sitelynx, he had form for a similar astroturfing
| effort for his own online jewellery store.
|
| Predictably, the Waxy.org story has hit the front page of Digg and some
| Diggers have piled in to condemn Times Online, blaming a conspiracy by the
| original Digger himself. "I haven't respected The Times since Murdoch bought
| it, since that effectively means I can no longer trust its content. Fuck you
| old man!" wrote one.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/times_online_link_spam/
Hacker testifies News Corp unit hired him
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| The trial could result in hundreds of millions of dollars in damage awards.
|
| NDS, which provides security technology to a global satellite network that
| includes satellite TV service DirecTV, denies the claims, saying it was only
| engaged in reverse engineering -- looking at a technology product to
| determine how it works, a standard in the electronics industry.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN2334980420080424?feedType=RSS&feedName=technologyNews&rpc=22&sp=true
http://tinyurl.com/4lyhpc
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