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DRM- A greater cause of piracy?
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| Ara Technica, citing a Freedom to Tinker
| blog post, has an interesting article about
| a research that-albeit some caveats- makes
| some really important points about the
| relationship between the level of
| restriction in an intellectual property and
| the level to which it is shared illegally,
| chiefly over Bittorrent.
|
| To sum things up, the research discovered
| that digital media like movies and music
| that contained DRM were highly pirated than
| their non-DRMd counterparts.
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/01/drm-greater-cause-of-piracy.html
Bono risks becoming next Lars Ulrich
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| Ever since Paul McGuinness, manager of the
| rock band U2, began lashing out at Internet
| Service providers for allegedly profiting
| from and encouraging illegal file sharing,
| U2 fans have wondered whether McGuinness
| spoke for the band.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-31001_3-10423544-261.html
Grandma endures wrongful ISP piracy suspension
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| All Cathi "Cat" Paradiso knew for sure, as
| she learned that her Web access was being
| shut off, was that she was losing her
| struggle to stay calm.
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http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-01-30-001-35-OS-HW
Law firm's piracy hunt condemned
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| Music industry representative the BPI has
| criticised the approach used by a UK law
| firm in chasing file-sharers.
|
| Law firm ACS:Law has sent thousands of
| letters to people it claims have downloaded
| illegal content.
|
| The BPI said it did not condone the
| approach of mass-mailing alleged internet
| pirates.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8483482.stm
BPI rejects scareletter approach to possible pirates
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| The tactic of using IP addresses extracted
| from internet service providers to send
| scare letters to suspected pirates is not
| something the British music industry would
| consider.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/scare_letter_file_sharing/
India objects to Google book settlement
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| About 15 Indian authors and publishers, and
| two organizations in the country, submitted
| their objections on Thursday to Google's
| plan to scan and sell books online.
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http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/334450
TalkTalk CEO sticks two fingers up at Mandy
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| It was reported yesterday that Charles
| Dunstone, Chief Executive of Carphone
| Warehouse, said if the Digital Economy Bill
| is enacted he would be prepared to fight
| the Government in court.
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http://www.bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/home/2010/02/talktalk-ceo-sticks-two-fingers-up-at-mandy.html
Dunstone talks up TalkTalk TV
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| Charles Dunstone, CEO of Carphone
| Warehouse, hasn't given up on the dream of
| being a quad-player, after revealing plans
| to launch TV and mobile TalkTalk services.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/01/talk_talk_tv/
Making Sense of ACTA
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| "This past week Guadalajara, Mexico hosted
| the 7th secret meeting of ACTA proponents
| who continue to ignore demands worldwide to
| open the debate to the public. Piecing
| together official and leaked documents from
| various global sources, Michael Geist has
| coalesced it all into a five part ACTA
| Guide that offers structured insight into
| what these talks might foist upon the
| populace at large. 'Questions about ACTA
| typically follow a familiar pattern â what
| is it (Part One of the ACTA Guide listing
| the timeline of talks), do you have
| evidence (Part Two), why is this secret
| (Part Three), followed by what would ACTA
| do to my country's laws (Part Four)?
| Countering the momentum behind ACTA will
| require many to speak out" (Part Five).'"
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http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/31/1915257/Making-Sense-of-ACTA
Recent:
O'Reilly drops ebook DRM, sees 104% increase in sales
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| It's been 18 months since O'Reilly, the
| world's largest publisher of tech books,
| stopped using DRM on its ebooks. In the
| intervening time, O'Reilly's ebook sales
| have increased by 104 percent. Now, when you
| talk about ebooks and DRM, there's always
| someone who'll say, "But what about
| [textbooks|technical books|RPG manuals]?
| Their target audience is so wired and
| online, why wouldn't they just copy the
| books without paying? They've all got the
| technical know-how."
|
| So much for that theory.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/22/oreilly-drops-ebook.html
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