Economist.com | Illegal file-sharers under attack
The entertainment industry is taking its battle against illegal downloading to America’s Supreme Court. But attacking the technology behind file-sharing could stifle innovation without tackling the industry’s long-term problems.
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The music business should have stuck by Thomas Edison’s technology if it wanted to avoid the threat of piracy. His wax [...]
via Cory @ Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA proposal: not great, could be LOTS worse.
The Canadian government has introduced its draft legislation for a “Canadian DMCA” — a suite of laws to bring Canadian copyright into harmony with the bad treaties that broke the American copyright system in 1998 with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
In many [...]
A article hightlighting the use of mass spectrometry analysis with field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) is in todays Globe and Mail and applying it to the problem of processing gene (genomics) and protein (proteomics) data.
The Blueprint Initiative at Mount Sinai Hospital working with the University of Toronto’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, replaced a $80,000 [...]
Via Scripting News: 3/24/2005, Tod Maffin (a producer on Definitely Not the Opera CBC radio’s guide to modern culture in Canada, podcaster, and all around Techno Talking head – Media Head?),reports that Canada is amending its copyright laws in favor of content-creators here Canada to Amend its Copyright Laws
Later this spring, the Government plans to [...]
(via Waxy Links) Kokogiak has built a “ Newsmashing with del.icio.us bookmarklet” ( y.a.b. – yet another bookmarklet) which was inspired by a Slate piece on Newsmashing which looks to be an partial implementation of my November 20th, 2004 Lazy web brainfart inspired by Phil Windley.
Of course Aaron Boodman, aka youngpup, [...]
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