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Redesign ...sort of
Yes, this is kind of a site redesign that will be completed soon. How soon? Just soon.
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| The end of ed2k and Bittorrent... |  It happened to Napster, Grokster, eDonkey (eMule is next) and finally Bittorrent. Now the Dutch Supreme Court hammered down another nail. Peer 2 Peer has not died but most of its vital functions have seized under relentless attacks and is now on life-support. What the hell happen in 2005?
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| 'Yoga piracy' |  If you are a IP law professional defending patent law in any form, you should read this:
But some gurus and fitness instructors in the West are said to be claiming patents and copyrights on poses and techniques lifted from classical Indian yoga texts. And New Delhi wants to stop that, London's Sunday Telegraph reported. ...
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| Plan by 13 Nations Urges Open Technology Standards | " The 33-page report is a road map for creating national policies on open technology standards, and comes at a time when several countries - and some state governments - are pursuing plans to reduce their dependence on proprietary software makers, notably <A title=Microsoft href="http://www.nytimes.com/redirect/marketwatch/redirect.ctx?MW=http://custom.marketwatch.com/custom/nyt-com/html-companyprofile.asp&symb=MSFT">Microsoft, by using more free, open-source software. "
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| Kazaa loses!! | An Australian court ruled on Monday that users of Kazaa, a popular internet music file-swapping system, breached music copyright and ordered its owners to modify the software.
"The respondents authorised users to infringe the applicants' copyright in their sound recordings," Federal Court Judge Murray Wilcox said in his ruling.
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| Wireless hijacking under scrutiny | "A recent court case, which saw a West London man fined £500 and sentenced to 12 months' conditional discharge for hijacking a wireless broadband connection, has repercussions for almost every user of wi-fi networks."
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| CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA | "CAFTA will require Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to mirror the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's broad prohibition on bypassing copy-protection technology. "
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| Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents | "The legal environment changed not because of new legislation, but by accident. one important ruling here and another there, and without anyone fully realizing it, a new intellectual-property reality had evolved by the end of the 1980's. Now software could enjoy the extraordinary protection of a patent, protection so powerful that Thomas Jefferson believed that it should be granted in only a few select cases."
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| Survival Guide 2005 v2: the Grokster addition | Limewire maybe the first casualty of the Grokster ruling but I hope many won't follow. An interesting study done by Digital music research firm The Leading Question confirmed what 'pirates' really do and why its premature to cut and run. Finally; lets take some lessons from webmail.
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| Who needs the Music Industry? M.I.A.? | "You know, I get to stick my fingers up at every single person in the music industry and go pssht I didn't need your f*cking play on the radio so f*ck you and no, I'm not going to edit Sunshowers"
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| Religion and Sharing |  A controversial and sensitive subject is gospel music "piracy". It's a touchy subject for many including myself. Unfortunately, technology sometimes forces us to evaluate our morals and beliefs. Now here's the question: can a good Christian download and share music?
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| Dutch podcasters pay royalty's | BUMA-STEMRA - Dutch royalty's collective agency- has decided [lang: Dutch] to set-up a temporary plan to charge podcasters for royalties. BUMA wants to charge 'amateur' podcasters € 35 a month while 'Professional" podcasters should pay uptill € 85 a month. Why? BUMA wants to cash in on the podcasters who broadcast copyright protected materials.
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| Apple Rips While Grokster Burns | "And some of the numbers supported the claim that the iPod's primary use is infringement:"
"Even worse for Apple was the fact that it might have engineered the iPod not to play MP3s, but it did not. ...Sony, by contrast, ...Walkman only permitted you to play songs purchased legally from Sony's website. But Sony hastily reconsidered that decision when it proved unpopular."
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| Do Game Publishers Ignore Piracy? | All but lost in the entertainment overload that's crushing Hollywood is an unheralded but multibillion-dollar burden: videogame piracy.
Forbes takes a look at how the video-game industry is still going strong, despite the rise of Bit Torrent and broadband. The article notes that publishers are doing relatively little to thwart piracy, and that pirated games make up 4% of p2p traffic.
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| Is VoIP intolerable? | VoIP; a lesson in tolerance was one way of saying that it is possible for Free and PPC to coexsist. Or maybe it was just a dream for the germans. The German unit of cell phone giant Vodafone plans to disable calls from the likes of Skype and other Net phone operators beginning July 2007.
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| Can you steal Internet? | Is it legal to use someone's Wi-Fi connection to browse the Web if they haven't put a password on it? Is it legal for me to share my cable modem or DSL connection with my neighbors? What happens if someone does something unsavory with my Wi-Fi connection? Can I get in trouble? These and more are answered over at CNET. But only if you live in the US. So, how about Europe?
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- The end of ed2k and Bittorrent...
(Nov 26, 2005)
- 'Yoga piracy'
(Sep 25, 2005)
- Plan by 13 Nations Urges Open Technology Standards
(Sep 09, 2005)
- Kazaa loses!!
(Sep 05, 2005)
- Wireless hijacking under scrutiny
(Aug 07, 2005)
- CAFTA Treaty Exports DMCA
(Aug 04, 2005)
- Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents
(Jul 31, 2005)
- Survival Guide 2005 v2: the Grokster addition
(Jul 31, 2005)
- Who needs the Music Industry? M.I.A.?
(Jul 30, 2005)
- Religion and Sharing
(Jul 25, 2005)
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