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consumers should know before buying a DVR or recording system like Microsoft's Media Center

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reasons to keep cookies turned off in your browser except when absolutely necessary

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a discussion of the current, growing, and censored Internet use in China by UK columnist

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more information explaining the US bandwidth auction

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UK tax system lost data on millions of British citizens; London Tube collects personal data on everyone getting a week's pass; CCTV cameras are everywhere--how long does that data have to be protected? Very long!

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Hasbro, manufacturer of the timeless board game Scrabble, is trying to shut down Scrabulous, an unauthorized electronic version of Scrabble that has gained a rabid following

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Media Commons, sponsor of In Media Res, a media analysis site, had many of its links taken down when YouTube purged copywritten material; they remounted copies of the clips on their own server and note their fair use statement.

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"I do a podcast from time to time because I want to say something. Whether I can run an ad on my podcast means nothing to me because I would never do it." Perhaps blogging and podcasting belong best to the gift economy.

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Internet service providers are business and cooperate with other businesses: "...time is right to start filtering for copyrighted content at the network level."

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common sense tech predictions, both business and software, related to DVDs, books, software, government/business relations--quite detailed although succinctly written

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Net nanny for everyone; online pornography and casino-like gambling is already illegal there; courtesy of a left government; opt-out provisions available

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Pew Report: "50%... have high-speed internet connections at home. This milestone in broadband adoption occurs at a time of close scrutiny of the data gathered by government agencies on broadband deployment."

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includes stories about new cold war cyberwars; just half a fence to be built on US-Mexico border; human proteins engineered into vegetable crops; armed robots used in Iraq

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"A maturing MP3 blogosphere grapples with the ethics, responsibility as its industry value swells." Discusses how music industry uses Internet music blog and criticism sites. Tells mechanisms of how music blogs function.

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The registration of .edu domains is governed by Educause, which limits the registration of such domains to post-secondary institutions in the United States that are institutionally accredited.

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Gilberto Gil, Minister of Culture and musician, "called for loosening intellectual property regulations to give more people the freedom to use and republish digital forms of content as a way of encouraging personal expression, culture and political partic

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75% of books printed are possibly copyrighted but out of print, out of mind. Google is scanning these books although not yet making them fully available; Microsoft, scanning only what it can legitimately disseminate.

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Stephen Downes' succinct denunciation of Kindle. To compare, why didn't podcasting take off like people expected? Downloading them, like RSS in general, may deter many potential users. Also I do think $10 a book is expensive for the Kindle.

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ongoing explorations in how to get free and legal music online; some sources give new files regularly; some sources you have probably never heard of.

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I did not read far enough or try enough to check out the quality of the MP3s, what rate they are recorded at, etc. But it is a big list, and the mother site has links to other free audio/music.

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