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Archive for February, 2004
Pirate wars redux
Posted in Copyright on February 6th, 2004From MIT’s Technology Review:
Lawyers for the music and film industry descended on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday (2/3/04). The mission: to overturn a ruling that clears file-trading services from being responsible for their pirate users.
Here’s what the Electronic Frontier Foundation has to say about it.
Read a news story about P2P vs RIAA.
In a related story, the Australian recording industry raided Kazaa headquarters in Sydney last friday (from NYTimes, free login required).
Microsoft to take on Google
Posted in Technology & Society on February 2nd, 2004Microsoft is intently poring over Google’s portfolio of patents, hunting for potential vulnerabilities, Mr. Schmidt contended. And because Google is running its business using Linux - the free open source software that has become the biggest challenger of Windows - Microsoft is concerned that it may be at a competitive disadvantage. “Based on their visceral reactions to any discussions about ‘open source,’ ” Mr. Schmidt wrote in his e-mail message, “they are obsessed with open source as a business model.”
Get ready for Microsoft vs. Silicon Valley, Round 2.