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A lot of music Industry news is coming out of France as they have a meeting that includes all the major labels. One of the first items was a plan for the RIAA to ask any ISP who allows their users to access File Swapping Network to pay a fee. We are 4 years into the highly publicized Music File
I spent a few minutes going thru this site has a limited amount of information but it is all pretty good if you are interested in DMCA issues. [p2pnet.net]
A couple of congressmen actually understand the dilemma that we as consumers are facing. "The fair use doctrine is threatened today as never before," says Boucher. "The Digital Millennium Copyright Act dramatically tilted the copyright balance toward complete copyright protection at the expense of the Fair Use rights of the users of copyrighted material." I wish them both luck in
The EFF has started the Cruelty to Analog weblog to document the entertainment industry's attempts to close the "analog hole". Knowing the EFF this site will explode it is just kicking off we will watch it and let you know. [analog.blogs.eff.org]
Microsoft has been ordered to have Sun's version of Java installed in 120 days. Sun wanted 90 but there was a compromise made and the judge handed down his ruling. I am wondering how this is going to improve IE utilization of Java. [WinInformant]
My oldest daughter has asked only once for a cell phone. She found out from me my opinion on the matter in a hurry. When she gets old enough to date or goes shopping with her friends she can borrow mine or my wife's but I'll be damned if she is going to have a cell phone until she is
I have a Broadband connection in Hawaii and it is packaged with my Cable TV Service. I have always been pissed that I would have to pay an additional $10.00 per month for my cable modem service if I decided to drop the bundled TV Service and switch to Satellite. Well in a catch 22 it looks like AT&T is
What would you do if the end of the World was only 1 year away... Well I don't think you have to worry about it as a couple of scientist have figured out that the earth has about 500 Million years left. :) [ABC]
In a move that is going to hurt financially H&R Block and the makers of Turbo Tax the IRS is making available a website available with links to sites where people can file their taxes for free. I have used TurboTax on-line for the last couple of years and probably will do so again this year. If the IRS site
I have rarely agreed with things the ACLU has said but in a article on CNet they reference a study written by the ACLU that talks about personal privacy and how you are being watched tracked and cataloged at every turn. Good forward thinking for the ACLU. [Cnet News.com]
Most parents have had that gut sinking feeling when a small child becomes separated from the parent while you are either out in the community or the child has left the yard and god forbid kidnapped. Companies are starting to offer tracking devices that can be put on your child to quickly locate the child. I can imagine there are
My folks live in a rural area. So rural in fact that you could run around in the yard naked if you wanted to and so long as you did not go hang out by the road you probably would not be seen. Being they choose to live in the country they are stuck on dial-up as this is the
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