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But while we were all running our mouths about the plausibility of the singularity emerging from Amazon's text-to-speech R&D, a much juicier issue was escaping our notice: it is technically possible for Amazon to switch off the text-to-speech feature for some or all books.\nThat's a hell of a thing, isn't it? Now that Amazon has agreed with the Authors Guild that text-to-speech will only be switched on for authors who sign a contract permitting it, we should all be goggling in amazement at the idea that this can be accomplished.\nNeither of these should inspire confidence in the Kindle as a long-term device. Dropping $359 (£251) on a device whose features are subject to the outcomes of ongoing negotiations to which you are not a party is, frankly, nuts.

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Every legislative and normative proposal recapitulates the worst mistakes of the spamfight: from Viacom's demand that Google automatically detect copyright-infringing videos while they're being uploaded; to the three-accusations-and-you're-offline proposal from the BPI; to the notion in the G8's Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement of turning copyright holders into judge, jury and executioner for what content can travel online and who can see it.

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I think we should permanently cut off the internet access of any company that sends out three erroneous copyright notices. Three strikes and you're out, mate.

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Here's the world's shortest, fairest, and simplest licence agreement: "Don't violate copyright law." If I had my way, every digital download from the music in the iTunes and Amazon MP3 store, to the ebooks for the Kindle and Sony Reader, to the games for your Xbox, would bear this - and only this - as its licence agreement.\n\n"Don't violate copyright law" has a lot going for it, but the best thing about it is what it signals to the purchaser, namely: "You are not about to get screwed."

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The third is the complete transformation of the country's media and communications industries, with dozens of independent television channels and tens of millions of new mobile phone connections creating, in effect, a giant electronic public forum.

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Cory Doctorow's column on DRM
Cory Doctorow is a digital activist, science fiction author and co-editor of the popular blog Boing Boing. Each fortnight he writes about copy protection, digital rights management (DRM) and the entertainment industry.

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Clearly, Facebook is another uber-capitalist experiment: can you make money out of friendship? Can you create communities free of national boundaries - and then sell Coca-Cola to them? Facebook is profoundly uncreative. It makes nothing at all. It simply mediates in relationships that were happening anyway.

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The whole world agrees that Pakistan can be salvaged only through democracy. But there can be no democracy without free media. And there can be no free media as long Musharraf continues to put himself above the law and the constitution.

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"In the past the best jokes would end up in jail," said Imran Aslam, president of Geo television and author of Pillow Talk. "This is a great departure." (SEPT. 14, 2007 -on Pakistani media BEFORE Nov. 3 martial law. Insightful]

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[PCO-sworn supreme court on presidential election and emergency - real SC judges re-arrested - "What happens next" summary]

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The moment a leader is perceived to be an American stooge, he or she will be like a red rag to a raging bull - and the situation would be further exacerbated [+ Dr. Arif Alvi's action plan re IK's hunger strike in comments]

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President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan is expected to turn civilian at the end of the week, once the purged supreme court rubberstamps his re-election. (also Mush's trip to Saudi Arabia, US training tribal leaders against talibans)

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Pakistani authorities today charged the opposition politician Imran Khan under the anti-terrorism act after he was arrested at a student demonstration in Lahore.

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...The focus of the dispute is a leading article which appeared in the Daily Telegraph, and suggested that Western powers had previously regarded General Musharraf as "our sonofabitch"....

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In the English portion of his speech, Musharraf compared himself to Lincoln. A friend of mine found other analogies, texting me to say: "He's like an ageing shogun in a Kurosawa movie, or a bureaucratic King Lear."

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Also in the show...Daniel Dennett, on the fundamental principles of consciousness. The interview by Dr. Susan Blackmore for her book, 'Conversations on Consciousness'. ..extended version of the discussion with Prof Dennet as this week's [Listen Now] Scien

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The information economy is here - but governments and business are still obsessed with 'protecting' information, rather than making it more productive * Cory Doctorow * Guardian Unlimited * Tuesday September 18 2007

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Digital rights management is a lie concocted to bilk the entertainment industry out of a fortune - it's time to wake up.

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...In reality, it's bloody hard to get any two technologies to talk to each other successfully. Remember how hard it was to get your new wireless card, printer or DVD recorder to work? Now, imagine that these technologies had been deliberately designed no

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"Take 2 Interactive Software has temporarily suspended plans to distribute Manhunt 2 for the Wii and PlayStation platforms while it reviews its options with regard to the recent decisions made by the BBFC and ESRB," the company said in a statement.

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