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Kazaa copyright ruling "a milestone", says music industry - silicon.com
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So Sharman Networks has lost the first round of the fight against the RIAA. They are going to appeal, but realistically can they win against the big multinational record companies?
My favorite quote from this story was a spokesman for the record labels who said,
"We're disappointed they won't accept the umpire's decision. It can't be fair to build a business on somebody else's work."
Hmm.... lets ask the songwriters and recording artists about that one; isn't this sort of parasitic behaviour what the record labels have been doing for years? Isn't clamping down on uncontrolled file sharing and enforcing the use or DRM just another way to ensure that all entertainment must use their services?
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39151984,00.htm
UK online music hobbled by high prices - silicon.com
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We know. We've know for ages. Let's hope that they do something about it. They might also like to pass a little bit more of the cash back to the artists too.
One gets the feeling that perhaps the record companies have seen the writing on the wall and are trying to make as much as they can while they can. Or perhaps they're just being as greedy as ever.
Artists of the world unite! Get yourselves a website and a distributor and dump the big labels.
http://networks.silicon.com/webwatch/0,39024667,39152842,00.htm
Blogger for Word
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This is a test of the new Blogger plug-in for Microsoft Word. It can be found on the Blogger.com homepage.
I won a router!!!
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OK don't get too excited, it's not for me, but I won a Cisco 2500 router for my network academy today.
I spent the day at the Cisco Academy forum and part of the day was a challenge lab for instructors and students. The top three students won a Linksys wireless router each for themselves whilst the top three instructors won a Cisco router for their academy. I wasn't the fastest, and to be honest thought I was pretty poor after failing to finish in the allotted 20 minutes, but I was actually the third fastest (getting the most done in the 20 minutes)!
Well I nearly fell out of my seat I can tell you.
So I now have to find a place for a the router in our lab rack and then buy some cables for it. Hmmm... now if I just had a budget.
Fitzrovia
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Spent the last couple of days in London on the border between Holborn and Campden.