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Carterware – it’s the new vapourware
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Andrew Orlowski
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“As yet, we’ve seen nothing that fulfils the consumer demand of sharing music, for which most of the public would apparently part with a fair bit of cash. So this is software or a service announced in response to a Government edict.” …
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A Copyright Summit diary
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Andrew Orlowski
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Anecdotes about treating Korean internet addicts, Charlie Nesson, and the Comic Book Store Guy. The strong ‘negative’ rating suggests at least one of these touched a nerve. Dr Yong-Kyung Lee, head of Korea Telecom and a policy advisor to the Korean government, amazed delegates with his descriptions of high tech Korea. Lee was a Bell…
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‘Thousands’ sign up for legal P2P
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Andrew Orlowski
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Tens of thousands of students have signed up to pay for a legal P2P music program in US universities, set to start later this year in experimental form. It’s Choruss, the incubator hatched by Jim Griffin – a long-time advocate of licensing P2P sharing on networks. Choruss won’t ultimately be in the retail or service…
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Baptiste: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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Andrew Orlowski
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. When you move from this to nothing, to “everything is free”, that’s not a real economy. Read more at The Register…
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Obama administration joins Google
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Andrew Orlowski
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Steve Jobs may have engineered the most audacious reverse-takeover in tech history when Apple “acquired” NeXT in 1996. Within a year, Jobs and his NeXT colleagues had purged Apple executives from all the key positions (although the chief accountant remained – which may tell you something about chief accountants). But that’s small beer compared to…
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Google’s doing to Twitterbook what it’s doing to copyright
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Andrew Orlowski
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Google has two prongs to its long-term strategy, but Wave, the “digital dashboard” it unveiled last week, casts light on a third. One strategy is to drive down the value of copyright material on the internet to zero. Google has a ruthless and calculating view of the real value of stuff. It reasons that if…