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Hollywood ruling sends piracy chill through Google
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Andrew Orlowski
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“Why is it so hard to make the decision not to enter into business partnerships with sites whose business model is obvious infringement of the works of U.S. creators?” Hollywood is going after advertising companies who help fund pirate websites, and has now won a landmark victory.…
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Radio amnesty fails to lift DAB
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Andrew Orlowski
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The radio audience ratings service RAJAR has published the first full quarter of figures since the launch of a DAB trade-in scheme called ‘Radio Amnesty’, fronted by ubiquitous luvvie Stephen Fry. The aim was to induce households to exchange their FM radios for a DAB radio. The result? DAB’s share of digital listening has fallen…
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The Google-eyed economy
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Andrew Orlowski
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“The report laments that ‘collective intelligence’ such as crowdsourced user-generated content isn’t measured by GDP” A new report commissioned by Google, and timed to coincide with the first ever Parliamentary debate on the company today, puts itself and the internet at the heart of the British economy. But it does so by using some creative…
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How NOT to do a music levy
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Andrew Orlowski
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The European Court has upheld the right of copyright businesses in the EU to ask for a ‘private copying levy’, but slapped down Spain for applying it indiscriminately. The Court was hearing a case brought by the Spanish music collecting society SGAE against a storage vendor called Padewan. Spain provides a case study in how…
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Nokia ends cruel and unusual ‘Symbian programming’ practices
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Andrew Orlowski
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Nokia has bowed to international pressure and agreed to end the cruel and unusual practice of programming natively for the Symbian OS. It still wants developers to target Symbian, but using the more humane Qt APIs instead. Nokia has also torn up the OS roadmap, and will speed up the delivery of new functionality to…
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Legal P2P fails (again)
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Andrew Orlowski
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“The EFF doesn’t have a plan, they barely have a theory,” Jim Griffin’s bold plan to take P2P file sharing out of the black economy, and into the one that deals with green folding stuff, flopped because it couldn’t explain to songwriters how they’d get paid.…