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TechTV to potentially violate DMCA this Saturday. On Saturday, Kevin Rose, the host of a guest on TechTV's Unscrewed will violate potentially violate the DMCA by modding an Xbox to run Linux.
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Edison's mistakes recapitulated by RIAA. George Ziemann of MP3 NewsWire has posted a terrific installment in his ongoing series on the history of copyright and technology. Today's installment is called, "RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes," and it walks us throught he way that Edison's film monopoly -- which was eventually crushed by the Feds -- had a history that was very parallel to the RIAA's own tactics here.
The government allowed the Motion Picture Patents Company, which had been formed in December, 1908, to get away with their anti-competitive control over the industry for less than four years. The U.S. government brought an antitrust suit against the MPPC in 1912 and declared it illegal in 1915.
Considering that the government has a) been trying to diffuse the voice of the music industry for a half century, if not silence it altogether and b) four of the five major labels are foreign-owned, sooner or later someone at the top end of government is going to possess the lucidity to wonder why the government should even care what happens to the record industry.
The only real issue is how long we have to wait. Step 8 should be worth waiting for -- the same independent renaissance that filmmakers enjoyed in the 1920s and 30s when Edison's movie empire fell apart. But the indie filmmakers didn't even wait for the government. They simply walked away and started over.
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CNET News.com - Front Door
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Earnings alert: EMC's tax windfall. Favorable tax audits help the storage systems manufacturer beat analysts' estimates...Nokia sees growth in its profits and in the handset market...IBM talks of new jobs next year. |
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Sony, Intel harmonize for mobile music. The music arm of the Japanese company will work with the chipmaker on creating applications to play Sony music and videos at PC quality on portable devices. |
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Yahoo! News - Technology
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Dow Down 44, Nasdaq Slips 0.2 (AP). AP - Disappointing revenue at IBM weighed on stocks Thursday, sending the market mostly lower despite some better-than-expected earnings reports. |
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Worldwide PC shipments rise sharply on notebook sales (AFP). AFP - Worldwide personal computer shipments rose sharply in the third quarter, fueled by strong demand for notebook computers, according to two closely watched surveys. |
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Verisign Gets Out of the Registrar Biz, Keeps .com Registry |
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BBC News | Technology | UK Edition
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Children 'need to improve web use'. Young people spend too much online time having fun and not enough on more useful pursuits, a report suggests. |
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InfoWorld: Top News
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ICANN grills VeriSign over Site Finder. VeriSign Inc. faced a series of questions about the September launch of its Site Finder search page from members of an Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) committee Wednesday, with members questioning why the company didn't poll the technology community about the possible effects before launching Site Finder. |
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SAP profit rises 25 percent on flat revenue in Q3. Enterprise software provider SAP AG reported a 25 percent year-on-year increase in net profit for the third quarter of 2003 Thursday, although total revenue changed little from the year-earlier quarter. |
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Sanyo turns to corn for a greener optical disc. TOKYO -- Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd. has developed an optical disc based on a polymer derived from corn which, the company says, is as sturdy as current plastic discs but will biodegrade when disposed of. |
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Taiwanese lawyer steals $100M from SanDisk. TAIPEI, Taiwan -- A Taiwanese lawyer has stolen approximately $100 million from memory-card maker SanDisk Corp., the company said on Wednesday. |
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Microsoft (finally) patches IE flaw. The third time's the charm for Microsoft Corp. After two failed attempts, the software giant seems to have succeeded in patching a serious security flaw in Internet Explorer. |
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Nokia upbeat on 3Q sale of handsets. Nokia Corp., the world's largest mobile phone maker, presented a mixed picture Thursday in its third-quarter financial report, with an increased volume in handset sales, but lower revenue for the period. |
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WLAN appeal is broader for homes and businesses. GENEVA -- Even though the number of hotspots offering public access to wireless broadband networks continues to rise sharply, executives from major vendors and mobile operators view the technology as playing a much larger role in the home and office. |
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AMD CTO: Port hardware, not software. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- After 30 years of asking software developers to port their applications to different hardware platforms, the industry should acknowledge that it is now easier to change hardware designs than software, said Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Chief Technology Officer Frank Weber during a keynote here Wednesday at Microprocessor forum. |
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Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL boost business IM wares. Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc., and America Online Inc. all announced enhancements to their respective instant messaging (IM) services for businesses on Wednesday, the opening day of the Fall 2003 Instant Messaging Planet Conference and Expo in San Diego.
ADVERTISEMENT: VeriSign Security Intelligence and Control(SM) Services - VeriSign's Security Intelligence and Control(SM) Services let you focus on business initiatives, like record up-time and global VPNs, while VeriSign's experience helps you monitor and manage your security infrastructure. |
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InfoWorld: Security
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U.K. lawmakers call on U.S. to pass spam legislation. Tech industry challenged to present viable recommendations |
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Microsoft (finally) patches IE flaw. Hole could admit a Trojan horse capable of hijacking your browser |
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LinuxSecurity.com
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Transparent, Bridging and In-line Firewall Devices |
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Too Many Hacks |
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SecurityFocus
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BugTraq: OpenServer 5.0.7 OpenServer 5.0.6 OpenServer 5.0.5 : Multiple security vulnerabilities in Xsco. Sender: [security at sco dot com] |
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BugTraq: CSS Vulnerability in Bajie HTTP JServer. Sender: Oliver Karow [Oliver dot Karow at gmx dot de] |
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BugTraq: Microsoft PCHealth 2003/XP Buffer Overflow (#NISR15102003). Sender: NGSSoftware Insight Security Research [nisr at nextgenss dot com] |
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BugTraq: Vulnerability in Exchange Server 5.5 Outlook Web Access Could Allow Cross-Site Scripting Attack (Microsoft Security Bulletin MS03-047). Sender: Ory Segal [ory dot segal at sanctuminc dot com] |
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The Register
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Lime Wire launches legal content portal. It's not all dodgy Metallica CD rips, you know |
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Beefed-up firewall, new version of Update for XP SP2. Details of security 'secret sauce' emerge |
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Wired News
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Monkey Thinks, Makes His Moves. Hope for paralysis victims comes from monkeys playing computer games. They've learned to control the moves of the game with their thoughts, indicating people with paralyzed limbs might be able to use brain signals to make devices act as limbs. |
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Pre-TV Newsreels Yield Photos. More than 12 million historic photo stills captured from British news service films that pre-dated television are published on the Web, chronicling scenes from the Boer War and D-Day landings to images of Charlie Chaplin and Brigitte Bardot. |
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Will It Fly? Apple Tunes on PCs. Apple unveils iTunes for Windows, but some say it's too late for success in the broader market. Windows users may not embrace the iTunes service like Mac fans have done with several music-download options and more entering the market. |
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Reaping and Sewing From Corn. Scientists are developing a biochemical process that for the first time converts the entire corn plant into useful materials. Powerful new enzymes help turn corn stalks and grains into lingerie or cheaper ethanol. By John Gartner. |
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Wanted: Master Lego Model Builder. LegoLand is looking for a new master model builder and will hold contests around the Unites States to find one. Think you've got the chops? Try building a perfect sphere out of square Lego blocks. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Fighting to Preserve Old Programs. Like original prints of old books, software should be preserved for future study, archivists argue. The DMCA prevents efforts to preserve classics like Lotus 1-2-3. but archivists are trying to get around the restrictions. By Daniel Terdiman. |
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Microsoft Toughens Up Outlook. The new version of Microsoft's popular e-mail program has added security features and spam-fighting capabilities. But critics say Outlook 2003 offers nothing that isn't already available in other programs. By Michelle Delio. |
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Turn That PC Into a Supercomputer. A small chip-design company is unveiling a new processor it says will bring supercomputer performance to desktops and laptops within a year. Imagine running an Earth Simulator on a notebook. By Leander Kahney. |
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NewsIsFree: Security
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Transparent, Bridging and In-line Firewall Devices |
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Too Many Hacks |
Thursday, October 16, 2003
1. Dip into water until tampon expands.
