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[News] Intellectual Monopolists Face New Challenges, Contradicted by Facts

  • Subject: [News] Intellectual Monopolists Face New Challenges, Contradicted by Facts
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:42:49 +0000
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Money Expert: Industry Should Compete With Music Piracy

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| While warning that consumers could get 
| ripped off if they donât shop around when 
| buying music, an expert on saving money says 
| that if itâs serious about winning over 
| pirates, the music industry must wake up and 
| embrace price competition.
`----

http://torrentfreak.com/money-expert-industry-should-compete-with-music-piracy-100104/

Hadopi three strikes law hits another hurdle

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| The controversial French 'three strikes' law 
| has hit yet another delay - it has failed to 
| win approval from the French data protection 
| agency.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/france_file_share/

DVD sales tank in 2009 as Americans head to the cinema

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| The good news is that Americans spent more 
| money at the movie theater in 2009 than the 
| year before. The bad news is that they spent 
| less on DVDsâa lot less. 
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http://arstechnica.com/media/news/2010/01/dvd-sales-tank-in-2009-as-americans-head-to-the-cinema.ars


Recent:

Anti-Counterfeit Act Violates Right to Health, Say Patients

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| Kenya's new Anti-Counterfeit Act will be
| challenged on March 8 in the country's
| Constitutional Court on the basis that it
| violates the right to health.
|
| The petitioners, three people living with
| HIV, argue that the law confuses generics
| with fake medicine.
|
| This could cause a health crisis as generics
| constitute 90 per cent of medicines used in
| Kenya.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200912221173.html
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