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Comment Re:Get it in both forms (Score 1) 715

The most obviously moral/practical solution in my opinion would be to order the text used from Amazon and then read the pirated electronic version.

Disagree. The author gets not a single bent penny from second-hand sales. (Neither does the publisher.)

The best move is to grab the pirated electronic copy, then buy a new copy of the author's latest book. That way, they get paid and their publisher receives a price signal that this author is popular.

Comment Re:Time for Qs to come back (Score 1) 262

I heard a report on the Diane Rehm show that that's exactly what they're planning to do. The other approach that is forthcoming is convoys where multiple shipping vessels get together with one armed gunboat to protect them. Blackwater has come forth as a potential candidate for the security contract of future convoys.
The Internet

Submission + - Dotster Hijacks Their Customers' Subdomains

mo writes: Recently, Dotster's DNS service has made a massive, potentially illegal change that has gone largely unnoticed. They now redirect DNS queries for any of their customer's unused subdomains to a spam page that serves up ads. For example, www.asterisk.org is a popular open source PBX project who gets it's DNS from Dotster, but bogus.asterisk.org redirects to Dotster's page of ads. This policy has been imposed on all of their customers without informing them. Any domain who has ns1.nameresolve.com as their primary nameserver is being subjected to it.
Linux Business

Journal Journal: Digium Denied Insurance Because of Linux

In case it doesn't make it as an article

As an interesting side note for /. readers who may think the SCO v. IBM case does not affect anyone, we at Digium (an Open Source telecommunications company) have found ourselves impaired in an odd way. As part of a contract we are pursuing, we have been asked to obtain copyright infringement insurance upon Asterisk, our primary Open Source product

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