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Sputnik Mania! Documentaries, old footage, and copyright

When independent filmmaker David Hoffman set out to make a documentary on the Sputnik hysteria that swept the US in the 1950s, he styled the piece as an hour-and-a-half feature film. He relied...

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UK P2P Crackdown Would Only Increase Undetectable Alternatives

Research by UK ISP Talk Talk finds that 80% of 18-34yos surveyed said that if govt tried to make it dangerous to use P2P services they would simply switch to ones that are...

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Historian warns against copyright-fight heavy hitting

No one likes a bully Copyright-dependent industries risk alienating the public and undermining intellectual property laws with their unregulated and aggressive tactics, according to an historian who has studied nearly 400 years of...

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Classmates.com settles suit over misleading e-mails

In 2008, the social networking site Classmates.com found itself on the receiving end of a class action lawsuit that focused on its membership recruitment tactics. The company has now settled the suit via...

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ITV HD World Cup matches to be shown on Sky, Virgin

Pay services sign up Virgin Media and Sky viewers will get to watch ITV's HD channel on 2 April.… ?

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