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In what will be a mortal strike to Fair Use! The amendment is currently being considered by the Content Protection Advisory Council (CPAC) of the DVD CCA. If voted on the current copy protection license governing DVDs would eliminate all DVD backups, and restrict DVD playback without the DVD being in the DVD player.
Looking to send a message to not only congress but also to listeners of streaming Internet Radio, many sites like Live365 and AccuRadio have agreed to a day of silence. They will shut down all their streams for 24 hours.
The RIAA was up to their standard tricks again, they wanted the University of New Mexico just to hand over their students information accused of file sharing copyrighted material. Well a District Court judge ruled that they are not going to be getting the information that way.
AT&T is on my Naughty Radar at the moment and while they are spying on their Internet customers it has come to my attention that with their agreement with the Federal Trade Commission to Acquire BellSouth they volunteered to sell unbundled DSL.
I am not sure what I would have to say if this actually came to pass. I would have to sit and think about all of the implications. One thing is for sure Microsoft would be in big trouble. It would make sense in a lot of ways can you imagine Google buying Apple and then opening the operating system up to all computers.
As soon as I get done writing this post I am going to remove Odeo from my website as a podcast directory destination. I am not alone in this as many other people have had nothing but problems with Odeo ever since it was sold.
The folks at Nokia understand New Media and they have been doing some cool things in recent months. The latest thing to cross my radar is a contest they are holding over the next couple of days where 20 teams have been given a topic, a N93i and 48 hours to create an advertisement using just the phone.
I have written every person I have contact with at Yahoo. I have screamed on this blog. Yet no one is at home at Yahoo, and the Yahoo Podcast team have failed to provide a mechanism to reach out to them when their is trouble on the podcasts.yahoo.com website!
I am sick and tired of reading blog articles on such sites as Engadget that clearly were sourced from another site and then search in vane within the article trying to find the source article.
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Three greats Scoble, Udell and Winer weigh in on Social Networks, their are some great take always in these post. Made them required reading for my team.
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