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Congressman Compares Lack of Radio Performance Tax to Slavery
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) takes the fight over terrestrial radio’s refusal to pay performer royalty fees to the next level. It seems the debate over terrestrial radio performance royalty fees is heating up these days with news that House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr.
Continue reading »Wikipedia springs free labor leak
Where have all the fiddlers gone? Wikipedia is leaking free labor – and fast.…
Continue reading »‘Stopping the ACTA juggernaut’
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- “The ACTA juggernaut continues to roll ahead, despite public indignation about an agreement supposedly about counterfeiting that has turned into a regime for global Internet regulation,” writes EFF international affairs director Eddan Katz in Deep Links . “The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has already announced that the next round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) negotiations will take place in January — with the aim of concluding the deal ‘as soon as possible in 2010′,” h says, continuing »»» For the rest of us, with access to only leaks and whispers of what ACTA is about , there are many troubling questions. How can such a radical proposal legally be kept so secret from the millions of Net users and companies whose rights and freedoms stand to be affected ?
Continue reading »UK Dig Britain MP: Internet is an “Essential Service”
Stephen Timms highlights its important social, commercial, and economic benefits, but doesn’t say why it’s still okay to disconnect entire households under a three-strikes regime where the most egregious file-sharers – for whom the law would intended – can easily elude copyright holders anyways. The UK’s Digital Britain MP Stephen Timms made some interesting comments in the Telegraph recently that ought to make more people realize just how serious the discussion about disconnecting people from the Internet really is. Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, who feels Digital Britain’s current timetable , which stands at 2-3 yrs for a 70% reduction using a combination of notifications and technical measures, would take an “unacceptable amount of time to complete in a situation that calls for urgent action,” has proposed giving ISPs the power to disconnect repeat offenders ala a “three-strikes” graduated response system.
Continue reading »Week in tech: we’ve got the POWER
Here’s a recap of the top tech stories from the week gone by for your Labor Day reading pleasure: IBM’s 8-core POWER7 crams an amazing amount of hardware into about half the space of the competition. Its secret is that its large shared cache is made of DRAM, and not the less-dense SRAM that processors normally use. A law professor has been arguing for years that Wikipedia will “fail” by the end of 2010 , and he’s now out to prove it with an academic paper.
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