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Submission + - Verizon Rejects Text Messages From Abortion Rights

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gollum123
gollum123 writes: "Saying it had the right to block "controversial or unsavory" text messages, Verizon Wireless has rejected a request from Naral Pro-Choice America, the abortion rights group, to make Verizon's mobile network available for a text-message program ( http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/27/business/27cnd-verizon.html?hp ). The other leading wireless carriers have accepted the program, which allows people to sign up for text messages from Naral by sending a message to a five-digit number known as a short code. In turning down the program, Verizon, one of the nation's two largest wireless carriers, told Naral that it "does not accept issue-oriented (abortion, war, etc.) programs — only basic, general politician-related campaigns (Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, etc.).""
Music

Submission + - Amazon's DRM-free downloads - you don't own them.

Submitted by CSE
CSE writes: As per the Terms of Use for Amazon's MP3 Downloader [http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=dm_fo_eula/002-5340564-6795234?ie=UTF8&nodeId=200154280]: "Upon your payment of our fees for Digital Content, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use the Digital Content for your personal, non-commercial, entertainment use, subject to and in accordance with the terms of this Agreement." However, further down the line we see the following under "Reservation of Rights": "You do not acquire any ownership rights in the Software or Digital Content as a result of downloading Software or Digital Content." You can use it. But you don't own it.
The Internet

How Burmese Dissidents Crack Censorship 154

Posted by samzenpus from the monks-and-the-net dept.
s-orbital writes "According to a BBC News article, "Images of saffron-robed monks leading throngs of people along the streets of Rangoon have been seeping out of a country famed for its totalitarian regime and repressive control of information. The pictures, sometimes grainy and the video footage shaky, are captured at great personal risk on mobile phones — but each represents a powerful statement of political dissent." The article goes on to tell the stories of how Burma's bloggers use proxy servers, free hosting services, and other technologies to overcome Burma's "pervasive" filtering of internet access and news."

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