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Jury selected in Thomas retrial: shockingly law-abiding
The file-sharing retrial of Jammie Thomas-Rasset began at 9am Monday morning on the 15th floor of the gleaming Minnesota District Court. The first rows in the gallery were reserved for the press “and bloggers”—this is a court aware of the public interest in this case, as evidenced by a comment from Judge Michael J. Davis.
Continue reading »TV’s broadcast flag has its DRM moment
The broadcast flag, a signal that would be embedded in digital broadcasts and inform consumer devices that the content was not to be recorded, may appear as a footnote in studies of the US’ transition to digital television broadcasts, which largely went off without significant disruptions . Where it won’t appear, however, is in any of the digital content that’s now freely streaming across the airways. If this doesn’t surprise you, then you weren’t paying careful attention to media news about five years ago, when content owners were predicting dire consequences for Hollywood if digital copies of its productions could be made unmolested.
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