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Anonymous Terrorist writes:
Back in the midsts of time, when I was a lad and gopher was the height of information retrieval I read The Anarchist's Cookbook in one huge text file. Now it appears the UK government considers possession of the book an offence under the Terrorism Act 2000 and is prosecuting a 17 year old boy, in part, for having a copy of the book.
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blowdart writes:
gnu is promoting ogg vorbis though www.playogg.com.
This is the perfect example of how not to do it; promoting a free audio format is laudable, but they promote it by suggesting to users that they .... download an entirely new media player.
iTunes users won't give up iTunes just for a codec. WMP users won't give up WMP just for a codec. In fact there are ways to get Ogg into those players; but what do GNU do? ignore how users currently work to push an open source media player along with the codec. This just is not realistic. There must be a better way, right?
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blowdart writes:
Kim Cameron, Microsoft's Identity Guy has discovered that Sony and Apple have changed the rules. The permissions for Bob Dylan's Modern Times, a Sony record, does not allow 6 tracks to be burnt to CD. Oh and it looks like you're not told about this until you try to burn ...
