"Plan B: If we do not get enough money required to buy the micronation of Sealand, we will try to buy another small island somwhere and claim it as our own country." I'm tempted to donate ju

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News release about the settlement of a lawsuit over unlicensed use of software by Best Buy's Geek Squad.

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Niall Cook of Hill & Knowlton PR firm questions whether bloggers should be posting 'private' e-mails.

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"In this essay, I want to turn the problem around and approach it from a positive standpoint, by examining the many ways in which a non-DRM approach to electronic publishing can help the situatio

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"...if some companies give away merchandise to expand market share, what's not to like about having someone else take on the expense of manufacturing and distributing the goods, as long as they'r

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"Eric Flint, the copyfighting progenitor of the Baen Free Library, has a sterling editorial up on why DRM drives piracy, instead of preventing it." Via BoingBoing.

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"Taken from this angle, what exactly is postmodernism, except modernism without the anxiety?" Read this essay. Seriously. This is important.

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"It's interesting to note that it wasn't horse-drawn carriage makers who became successful automobile companies." Seriously, read what this guy is saying. He's talking a lot of sense.

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"...just remember, the next time a big-media bigshot says "you can't compete with free", they really mean "I can't be bothered to try competing with free"."

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The seminal essay by Tim O'Reilly, as cited recently by Sir Cory of Doctorow.

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"Figures for 2005 from the global Business Software Association showing $361 million a year of lost sales in Australia are "unverified and epistemologically unreliable", the report says

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"This month, a crew of 13 heads out to sea each day, hoping for clear-enough weather to dive the 20 to 25 feet to the ocean bottom to excavate what they believe is Blackbeard's ship." Awesom

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"...file sharing activity is in steady decline in Canada. The survey, conducted in June 2006, finds that just 14 percent of Canadians have downloaded music in the last 12 months, down from [...]

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"It exists to serve a need in the market for consumers who want TV content on demand. Pirates compete the same way we do - through quality, price and availability. We don't like the model but we

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"After all, it's not really our content. At the end of the day if that's how content owners choose to sell it, isn't that their right? Isn't ours simply a choice of to buy or not to buy?" Ne

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An interesting new potential business model - it could solve M'soft's piracy worries, if nothing else. But how long before there were hacks to avoid the ads?

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It sure is...the artists and entertainment companies have to actually innovate in the face of changing business models! What a crazy idea...call my lawyer.

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The EFF challenges the content moguls to answer some simple questions about their approach to intellectual property and copyright infractions. Link via BoingBoing.

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TechDirt disassembles the mainstream media reportage on the 'evils' of piracy worldwide.

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"Blackbeard and Ben Franklin deserve equal billing for founding democracy in the United States and New World, a new University of Florida study finds." Arrr, surely 'tis the truth!

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Great little cartoon satirising the anti-piracy messages from the content industries. Via Human Iterations.

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Techdirt lays waste to the yearly piracy statistics

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an Antigua-based company that sells software to defeat various forms of copy protection

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Rip / Download songs from MySpace!

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Here is the device key, along with the memory offset where it can be re-discovered assuming that you dump memory in WinDVD 8 early enough in the runtime process. By the way, psuspened helps tremendous

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The RIAA Radar is a tool that music consumers can use to easily and instantly distinguish whether an album was released by a member of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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