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Shirky vs Brill: Will people pay?
With Australia media mogul Rupert Murdoch (he figures it’s time for net users to pay for what they currently get for free ) in the background, “Yes, some consumers will fork out for some content,” says Steven Brill (righ), founder of Journalism Online, a company aimed at creating a new business model for online journalism. But, “No, it’s too easy to obtain free content elsewhere on the Web,” says Clay Shirky, an associate new-media professor in the graduate Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. The two are pitted against each other in What Matters , “a new direction for McKinsey Publishing”.
Continue reading »Woman Loses Job Due to Error in FBI Criminal Database
A Maryland woman lost her accounting job after a background check performed through the FBI’s criminal database indicated, erroneously, that she was unsuitable for the job, according to the Baltimore Sun . Eschol Amelia “Amy” Studnitz had been working for Corporate Mailing Services since August 2008 as a senior accountant. Last July, after CMS won a contract to handle mail for the Social Security Administration, the administration performed a routine background check on Studnitz and other CMS employees, who needed a low-level security clearance to work on the contract.
Continue reading »Share Music Online with Mp32Tube.com – the YouTube for Mp3 files
If besides enjoying YouTube and what it offers, you also want to upload songs to the service and share them with the world, the task can be a bit frustrating since YouTube doesn’t let you carry out this ‘work’ directly. This is where the new service MP32Tube comes in handy as it allows you to make direct mp3 uploads to YouTube. The service integrates the Youtube API which means you can upload directly to your Youtube account (that’s pretty cool, isn’t it?).
Continue reading »Pirate Bay Appeal Postponed Till Summer 2010
On April 17th, Fredrik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm, Peter Sunde and Carl Lundstrom were found guilty of ‘assisting in making copyright content available.’ The Court sentenced the defendants to one year in prison and a fine of $905,000 each. While awaiting the appeal that was announced immediately after the verdict, The Pirate Bay continued to operate as if nothing had happened. In the background, however, both the defense and prosecution teams were preparing for the appeal which was scheduled to take place next month.
Continue reading »Two More Pirate Bay Appeal Judges Accused of Bias
On April 17th all four defendants in the Pirate Bay trial were found guilty and sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of $905,000. Despite this verdict The Pirate Bay continued to operate while the defense filed for an appeal. A few weeks ago the Court announced that it has two weeks set aside for the Pirate Bay appeal, starting in November.
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