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Why did Ofcom back down over DRM at the BBC?
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| Back before the Christmas break, it looked
| like Ofcom was ready to do its duty and
| stop the BBC from adding digital rights
| management technology to its high-
| definition broadcasts. After all, DRM
| doesn't actually prevent copying â even the
| BBC agrees that the scheme it's proposed
| won't stop a determined copier, and once
| that copy is on the internet, everyone else
| will be able to get at it with a couple of
| clicks.
|
| And DRM imposes social, monetary and public
| interest costs: a DRM scheme will never be
| able to embody the flexibility built into
| the law that instructs judges to carefully
| weigh up the copyright holder's exclusive
| rights against the public's legitimate use
| of copyrighted works for personal
| archiving, format-shifting, commentary,
| education, and the other traditional uses
| that have fallen outside of the exclusive
| purview of copyright corporations to
| approve.
|
| [...]
|
| I love the Beeb, honestly I do. I am just
| as worried about charter renewal in 2016 as
| anyone in White City. But how on Earth can
| the BBC's masters believe that adding DRM
| will win over the affection of the Britons
| whose support Auntie will need during the
| next government?
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/feb/09/ofcom
UK government says Nominet EGM changes enough to get it off companyâs back
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| The top civil servant at the Department for
| Business (BIS, formerly BERR, formerly
| DTi), David Hendon, has sent a letter [pdf]
| back in response to a letter [pdf] from
| Nominetâs chairman Bob Gilbert saying that
| the EGM proposed changes would âlargely
| remove the concernsâ that the government
| has about Nominet.
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http://kierenmccarthy.com/2010/02/05/uk-government-says-nominet-egm-changes-enough-to-get-it-off-companys-back/
The $9.99 Ebook Is Dead: Third Major Publisher Hachette Dumps on Amazon
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| With a majority of the major publishers now
| going to the agency model, it's logical
| that the final two, Penguin and Simon &
| Schuster, won't be far behind, especially
| since they're a part of Steve's team.
| (HarperCollins hasn't officially switched,
| but Rupert Murdoch said on their earnings
| call they're renegotiating to that, so I'm
| counting it.) Three out of five, we're
| calling it: Amazon's dream of a flat $9.99
| for ebooks has flatlined.
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http://gizmodo.com/5464742/the-999-ebook-is-dead-third-major-publisher-hachette-dumps-on-amazon
Recent:
BBC given go-ahead for Freeview HD copy-protection
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| The BBC has been granted provisional approval
| for the BBC to introduce copy protection for
| content on the Freeview HD platform.
|
| With Freeview HD closing in on a commercial
| launch, focus has continued on what level of
| copy protection should be put in.
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http://www.techradar.com/news/television/hdtv/bbc-given-go-ahead-for-freeview-hd-copy-protection-665556
David Pogue tries DRM-free ebooks, sells more books than with DRM-crippled ventures
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| Tech writing superstar David Pogue writes
| about his experiment with DRM-free ebook
| publishing. He concludes that even though his
| DRM-free book was pirated all over the net,
| the sales were as high as he expected them to
| be, based on his previous books' sales. Pogue
| goes on to talk about what he's learned here
| -- that DRM-free isn't necessarily bad for
| sales -- and invites other publishers to try
| it out.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/11/david-pogue-tries-dr.html
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