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Am I the only who's noticed that the Intel ads during NFL games show a young (patently criminal, moral-free, music-stealing, property-thieving, convicted-by-default, social anarchist) computer user burning his own CDs? And all while Intel's management crawls in bed with Hollywood to make sure such activity is impossible. Isn't that just a bit disingenuous?

WSJ. Wired. The music industry is set to launch an ad campaign against P2P file sharing. "People going into computers"??
Ms. Spears, for example, is quoted in the ad saying: "Would you go into a CD store and steal a CD? It's the same thing: People going into the computers and logging on and stealing our music."
[ Source: John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Revealing Digital Hollywood

8:52:29 AM

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One more way to ruin a good morning. I've got to stop reading my news aggregator.

[...] Most revealing quote of the day went to Brad Hunt, CTO of the MPAA, who at one point summed up the challenge facing the entertainment and computing industries this way: "How do you make the PC a trusted entertainment appliance?" That's the mindset, the shared assumption, underlying the forces on this side of the copyright battle. Wading through two days of that negative energy was a trying experience. [...more] [ Source: JD's Blog]

MIT To Share Open Courseware

8:14:32 AM

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I wish someone from MIT could get in front of the Congressional Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property, and get through to that public menace, Congressman Howard Berman. He and Coble will singlehandedly destroy the Internet and drive the economy into the toilet all to save the jobs of a few worthless record execs. (But we should save those fine folks who brought us American Idol -- there's a real contribution to culture.)

MIT OpenCourseWare opens on September 30th.
BBC News: "Why don't we, instead of trying to sell our knowledge over the internet, just give it away." ... "There is no revenue objective for OCW, ever. It will always be free."

What a great idea. Of course, MIT has a great reputation for quality. The long-term implications must scare many, many people shitless. Also see Anders' post. [ Source: Seb's Open Research]