In The News

["Olga Francois" <ofrancois@xxxxxxxx>]

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Public Protests NPR Link Policy
By Farhad Manjoo, WiredNews.com, June 20, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,53355,00.html

"The reaction was much the same on Wednesday, when webloggers discovered
that yet another huge organization is trying to lay down rigid linking
guidelines -- only this time the huge organization is National Public
Radio, the ad-free, member-supported radio network that often paints
itself as the antithesis of all things big and corporate."
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NPR Form:
http://www.npr.org/about/linking_form.html
(I probably should have first used the form to ask if I could link to
the form! Oops -O.
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The View From Hollywood
Compiled by Mike Musgrove, TechNews.com, Washington Post, June 18 2002
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6410-2002Jun18.html?referer=email

"The Motion Picture Association of America has put together a short but
far-reaching shopping list of software and piracy issues that it would
like to see addressed by the information-technology and
consumer-electronics industries."
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European Scientist Criticizes Copy-Protection Standards
SiliconValley.com, June 19 2002
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3505238.htm

"A leading European computer security and privacy advocate is
challenging an effort by the American computer industry to create a
standard to protect software and digital content, calling the plan a
smoke screen by established companies to protect their existing
markets."
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Harry Potter released unprotected
By Barry Fax, NewScientist.com news service, 13 June 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992404

"By not protecting Harry Potter, Time Warner has saved the five US cents
or so per disc or tape that  Macrovision charges.  Analysts suspect that
Warner left the release unprotected, to investigate whether this would
have a significant impact on sales."
(Contributed by Max Hyre)
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Bumps rising in Napster buyout
By John Borland, CNET News.com, June 19, 2002
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-937459.html

"In documents filed with a Delaware court Tuesday, PlayMedia Systems
said it provided key parts of the Napster technology, which the company
couldn't automatically transfer to Bertelsmann."