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[News] [SOT] More Political Manipulation from Media Giants Suppresses the People

  • Subject: [News] [SOT] More Political Manipulation from Media Giants Suppresses the People
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 13:32:00 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Truly disgusting. Free software is a big part of this too.

DiMA: SoundExchange is leveraging absurd fees to push DRM on web radio

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| Gee, and I thought everyone in the business world loved DRM because it's such 
| an enabler. Turns out, it's a hot potato. 
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070718-dima-soundexchange-is-leveraging-absurd-fees-to-push-drm.html

The whole taxation thing is now believed to have been just a ploy to force the
use of DRM.

Copyright Board Gives Go Ahead to iPod Levy

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| The Copyright Board of Canada has released its decision on a series of 
| motions contesting the latest attempt by the Canadian Private Copyright 
| Collective to apply the private copying levy to iPods and removable memory 
| storage cards.   
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2112/125/

Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks

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| The global corporations that profit from copyright are lobbying for draconian 
| punishments, and to increase their copyright powers, while suppressing public 
| access to technology.   
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http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/media/Copyright%20vs%20Community%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Computer%20Networks.html

FCC asks for comments on network neutrality, gets 27,000 of them

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| Such comments exemplify one of the issues with private comments: many are not 
| directly addressing the questions raised by the FCC. Those that are can be 
| ambiguous. "Please leave the internet alone" is the rhetoric used by both 
| sides in the debate, though in one case this means regulation and in the 
| other, no regulation.    
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070717-fcc-asks-for-comments-on-network-neutrality-gets-27000-of-them.html

Aide to Malaysia's Anwar warns of controls on bloggers

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| Two prominent bloggers, Ahirudin Attan and Jeff Ooi, are also being sued for 
| defamation by the government-linked New Straits Times Press group, a move 
| criticised for attacking freedom of expression.  
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070719/tc_afp/malaysiapolitics

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