A new music format is released to protect the music from piracy. Not even a felt tip pen can break the protection. Read about the format nicknamed the Record.
Linked from David Gagne.
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New Anti-Piracy Format.
Posted on May 30, 2002 by Richard
EFF And Freedom.
Posted on May 30, 2002 by Richard
After my post two days ago, “How Business Has Gone Mad“, I decided to support the Electronic Frontier Foundation by placing the CAFE (Campaign for Audiovisual Free Expression) Logo and link on my Blog.
If anyone feels the same way I do, they should spend some time reading their site. Of interest is their recent Blog [...]
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Who Are The Real Pirates?
Posted on May 29, 2002 by Richard
Who Are The Real Pirates? MediaGuardian have a similar article to my last post. Alan Cox points out that although the Motion Picture Association of America claim they are losing billions due to piracy, the evidence, such as the recent success of Spider Man, suggests they are doing just fine.
Courtney Love (lead singer of Hole) [...]
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Why Business Has Gone Mad.
Posted on May 28, 2002 by Richard
Today’s business thinking has finally gone off the rails, with companies so heavily laden with fat corporate suits that their wheels have lost all traction. In a mad scramble to protect industries from change, organisations are about to abuse infant sections of the law. Instead of promoting innovation to move forward, some of the worlds [...]
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Microsoft Takes A Swing At Nokia
Posted on May 28, 2002 by Richard
Microsoft never fail to amaze me. At a conference that they presented their mobile phone strategy to, Juha Christensen, vice president of Microsoft’s mobile device division threw a swing at Nokia by saying, “I think it’s hilarious that the word ‘open’ is used in selling its platform, I don’t think it’s hugely credible to say it’s open when it’s based on patents belonging to Nokia.”.
Can I just remind everyone about Microsoft’s own patents in some “open” Web Services protocols. Here and here.
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How To Live To Be 100.
Posted on May 27, 2002 by Richard
Man Saved By Mobile E-Mail
Posted on May 27, 2002 by Richard
A British explorer trying to be the first to walk to the North Pole solo, used his sledge to mark out a 320m runway in the ice, took a digital photograph of it and e-mailed the image via his mobile phone to a rescue team in Canada.
Now that is what I call being wired!
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How To Be A Best Seller.
Posted on May 27, 2002 by Richard
By using what turns out to be an incredibly brilliant form of online marketing, a $US3 PDF file is quickly becoming Amazon’s number 1 bestseller. See Kuro5hin for more details.
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Cloning Money
Posted on May 26, 2002 by Richard
It looks like we are on the verge of a true “Jurassic Park” moment. In an endevor to make as much money out of genetics as one can, the President of a BioTech company explains, “Genetics represent the boundary of what an animal can ultimately become,” Wanner said. “Producers will be able to go into [...]
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Cloning A Biological Impossibility
Posted on May 26, 2002 by Richard
An article at MIT Technology Review explains how Rudolf Jaenisch, an MIT biology professor, believes that due to our biology, reproductive cloning can not happen.
With normal fertilization, the egg and sperm go through a long process of maturation, resulting in two genomes poised to activate the early embryonic genes. But cloning shortcuts that by trying [...]
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