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Copyright fight through the ages
“If we don’t control it, file sharing will destroy the music business !!!” Then »»» Gut me with a spoon! This new technology blank tapes makes it easy for anyone to duplicate music taking money away from artists and companies who invest in artists!!! Soon there’ll be no new music … Then VCRs »»» Soon there’ll be no new movies … Same same for photocopiers in the 60s »»» Soon there’ll be no new books … CBC’s This Hour Has 22 Minutes as a satirical take on the not-satirical Canadian copyright reform farce as the show explores the “historical struggle between technology and the content industry,” says a YouTube video posted by Michael Geist’s Fair Copyright For Canada . The 22 Minutes show was aired yesterday. Here’s the clip.
Continue reading »Post-Pirate Bay, a Federated Tracker Network Emerges
The Pirate Bay’s impending sale has been worrying BitTorrent users around the world. One reason for these worries is that the Swedish pirate platform has been the backbone of many of the web’s BitTorrent sites and communities. Take the Pirate Bay’s tracker servers away, and sites like Mininova would be left in a dry spell, with users unable to download pretty much anything at all.
Continue reading »EFF site counters Copyright Alliance bilge
p2pnet news view | Kids & Kartels:- The EFF has launched an effort to counter entertainment industry ‘educational copyright’ programs. “Anyone who believes things are as bad as they can get with self-interest corporate groups undermining freedom of choice, freedom of expression and freedom of speech should prepare themselves,” I said in 2007 . “There’s a new anti-consumer gang in town, and it’ll be more actively poisonous than anything you’ve ever seen before.” I was wrong, I went on.
Continue reading »Business method patents ‘face rough ride’
Most people think of patents in terms of legal protection for new technological inventions. There is another form of patent, however. A business method patent is one awarded for a special technique for doing business such as improvements to a company’s accounting or sales department.
Continue reading »UK patients can delete treatment records
In a significant concession in data protection policy, National Health Service patients in Britain will be able to delete electronic summaries of their treatment records from a new national medical database, says The Guardian . The decision follows talks between health service officials and the Information Commissioners’ Office (ICO), says the story, going on: “Until recently the Department of Health had resisted pressure from sceptical patients and doctors critical of the security risks generated by confidential records being transmitted across the NHS broadband computer network known as the Spine. “Last month, officials described the cost of deleting individual summary care records (SCRs) from the system as prohibitive.
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