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Australia’s $164,000 web site !
You know how we’ve been saying (repeatedly, over and over, and ad nauseum) how local taxpayers foot the bill for entertainment cartel use of national (and local) police forces as korporate kopyright kops? It goes further than that in Oz. “Taxpayers have spent 71c for every hit on Kevin Rudd’s stimulus website, new data released by the government shows,” says Australian IT , going on: “The Rudd government spent $164,000 to set up the website, which provides details of the rollout of spending under the government’s $42 billion stimulus package, announced in February.
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DRM is Dead “Jonathan Lamy, chief spokesperson for the RIAA declared when he was asked about the RIAA’s view on DRM for an upcoming SCMagazine article,” says Slashdot . “DRM is dead, isn’t it?” Lamy said, referring to the DRM-less iTunes store and other online outfits that now offer music without restrictions.” Since the inception of DRM, it has the primary result of punishing those that have bought digital music, tying them down to either the device, or protocol that was the proprietary platform for the music played. It has done nothing to inhibit the illicit file sharing of music as a whole, and really only had the effect of pissing off the customer.
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