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Free ebooks appear to boost sales | Blog | Futurismic – There has been a lot of criticism of the practice by some writers and lots of praise from other corners. At the moment, it looks like the practice works. Continue reading 3 points towards a new business model for Music and Books.
Via Michael Geist comes word that an fable in “Hill Times (a weekly newspaper for Ottawa’s “savvy political and government insider”) written by Michael Eisen (Microsoft Canada’s Chief Legal Officer) misleads in the service of the “Prentice Canadian DMCA” act Continue reading Microsoft Misleads on Copyright Reform
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If you see one “hockey-kids-xmas-comedy-drama about a queer couple who gain custody of an 11 year old boy” this is the movie!! (imdb listing) You may have already heard about it, based on the book of the same title, from Continue reading Breakfast with Scot , “out” in the theatres Nov 16 2007
The title of the Information Week column by Alexander Wolfe is both provocative and misleading. Microsoft has patented (U.S. Patent 7,266,697) “Stealthy audio watermarking”, which Mr Wolfe suggests could lead to “Uncrackable DRM“. However even reading the patent’s abstract (“The Continue reading Uncrackable DRM is, very likely, Neither.
Via Greg “Beatiful Code” Wilson : The Friends of the Merril are having a Flea Market on Saturday September 8th, from 10-4, at the Toronto Reference Library (just north of Bloor on Yonge). Second-hand, collectible, or one-of-a-kind: all sorts of Continue reading The Friends of the Merril Science Fiction/Anime Flea Market