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Aussies: turn YouTube into your own MoneyTube
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-04-17 03:42:22
The march to monetise YouTube – for both Google and content creators – takes another turn with YouTube’s partner program being extended to Australia, Japan and Ireland – with more countries to come.


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Telco heavyweights agree to limit LTE IPR costs
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications

Category: Technology

2008-04-14 23:21:27
The Long Term Evolution of cellular technology - which promises wireless broadband access in the 100Mbps range -  has taken a significant step forward with seven major global telco vendors signing up to an agreement that will limit intellectual property licensing fees and, hopefully, avoid the costly and protracted IPR litigation that has bedevilled other technologies in recent years.


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What's a reasonable venue for legal action?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-03-31 01:57:56
Jurisdiction is a funny thing.


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Hi-fi maker swaps patents with Microsoft
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2008-03-24 18:45:08
Audio maker Onkyo and Microsoft have signed a patent cross-licencing agreement.


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ACAP sees signs of support from Google CEO
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2008-03-19 05:20:20
Developers of the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) being promoted as an industry standard by the publishing industry to enable permissions information to be added to content published on the World Wide Web have seized on remarks made by Google CEO, Eric Schmidt as an endorsement of their technology.


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ACAP backers buoyed by UK Gov't 'support'
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news

Category: Search engines

2008-02-26 16:43:50
The backers of new technique that they claim will revolutionise the creation, dissemination, use and protection of copyright-protected content on the worldwide web have seized on supportive comments in a major UK Government report.
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Pirate Bay de-scuppered and back on Yahoo
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-02-21 20:23:18
What’s going on at the world’s second most popular search engine, Yahoo? First they delist the Pirate Bay, but then they put it back. Did Jack Sparrow call them and have a chat?


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Swedish “Pirate Bay” under new legal attack
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic

Category: The gadget blog

2008-02-17 20:10:20
Torrent download site, the Pirate Bay is in the legal firing line once again, this time from lawyers representing Prince and the Village People. However, if the Pirate Bay’s other responses to letters they have received from companies around the world are any indication, their response will likely be little more than a line from the Village People’s hit: you can’t stop the music, nobody can stop the music (or the Pirate Bay!).


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OOXML: disquiet across the Tasman
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2008-02-11 09:19:52
In a few short weeks, it will be time for national standards bodies to decide whether the Microsoft Office Open XML specification will be accepted as an ISO standard or not.
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Pirate Bay operators charged
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-01-31 16:22:51
Four men have been charged in Sweden with copyright offences relating BitTorrent tracker The Pirate Bay.


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Making hardware vendors love open source
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce

Category: Linux Blog

2008-01-30 05:52:15
Reverse-engineering open source drivers for hardware devices will only reduce the pressure on manufacturers to provide such drivers, Dirk Hohndel told an audience at the Australian national Linux conference today.
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EU directives do not require naming of Internet users
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-01-29 15:29:01
The European Court of Justice has ruled that European Community directives aimed at protecting copyright do not override privacy rules.


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Music industry wants ISPs to be its enforcers
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-01-24 16:00:15
The music industry is barking up the wrong tree when it suggests there is acceptance of the idea of making ISPs responsible for filtering copyright-infringing traffic.


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Format-shifting provisions under review
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-01-24 00:22:26
The operation of legislation allowing certain format-shifting activities of movies and photographs is under review.


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The DVDs you don't need to rip (but probably will)
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-01-15 15:51:50
Twentieth Century Fox and Apple have teamed to deliver a system that makes it easy to add purchased DVDs to an iTunes library.


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Amazon MP3 song prices no real threat to iTunes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump

Category: Apple and anything else

2008-01-14 01:47:42
"Two out of three ain't bad," according to Meat Loaf. Amazon's deals with each of the big four labels to deliver DRM-free tracks give it an advantage over Apple in terms of range, and its choice of the MP3 format gives it access to a larger market. But when it comes to per-song prices, Amazon hasn't done enough to establish itself as the much-vaunted iTunes killer.


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Apple equalises UK iTunes prices
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Commerce

2008-01-09 14:37:08
Apple will bring UK iTunes Store music prices into line with those in the rest of Europe.


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Sony BMG joins MP3 trend with gift cards
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Vendors

2008-01-08 01:19:44
Sony BMG has announced it will begin offering a limited selection of albums as downloadable, DRM-free, high-quality MP3 files.


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Canadian songwriters propose P2P sharing levy
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: Internet

2008-01-07 00:28:16
The Songwriters Association of Canada has proposed a mandatory licence fee applied to all Internet and wireless subscriptions that would be channelled to music creators and rights holders.


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Warner loosens copy protection for Amazon
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news

Category: E-Commerce

2007-12-30 18:39:20
Warner Music is set to offer DRM-free music downloads through Amazon.


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