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Posts by fairportfan
Web founder warns of Internet disconnect law 'blight'
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(Agence France Presse)Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with inventing the world wide web, warned Tuesday of the "blight" of new laws being introduced across the globe allowing people to be cut off from the Internet."There's been a rash of laws trying to give governments and Internet service providers (ISPs) the right and the duty to disconnect people," he told a conference on web science at the R
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Secret Copyright Treaty Draft Leaked After Washington Talks
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From PCWorld.com:Another round of negotiations, another leak: Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) published what it says is the latest draft of the secret Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement (ACTA) over the weekend.In its latest draft, ACTA appears to have gained a preamble in which the parties to the treaty set out broad principles including their desire "to address the problem of copyright or rel
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To the RIAA: "Just lay on your ass and get richer ... or write your own songs."
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The RIAA has conceded that they can't police all of the copyright violations online.And the latest court decision has said that YouTube (among others) was fully carrying out its responsibilities under the DMCA by "...complying with takedown notices from copyright holders when informed of copyright violations."The way the law is written puts the burden of proof (quite rightly) that something infrin
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Marginally political: Doesn't ANYONE listen to the actual lyrics?
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Actually, i know the answer, more or less - i've read reports of surveys that quote numbers as high as 80% for Top 40 radio listeners who apparently judge a song solely by the old American Bandstand criteria {"Good beat, easy to dance to"} and never really have any idea what the lyrics say or what they're about. Classic example - Last Train to Clarksville ... which couples lyrics like. "I don'...
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Madonna sued over "Material Girl" clothing line
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Madonna sued over "Material Girl" clothing line LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Madonna has been hit with a lawsuit over her new "Material Girl" fashion line for teenagers by a California clothing company that says it has been using the name since 1997.L.A Triumph filed a lawsuit against the pop superstar in the California Central District court on Thursday, just two weeks after the Madonna line went on s
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Belgian Rock Festival of Death
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British pop singer dies in fall at Belgian concertBRUSSELS - The lead singer of a British pop trio climbed a telecommunications mast behind the main stage at a Belgian rock festival and leaped to his death in the parking lot below, police said Saturday.Twenty-two-year-old Charles Haddon of Ou Est Le Swimming Pool died late Friday during the Pukkelpop festival in Hasselt, a town in eastern Belgium.
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Locating MOG account...