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Submission + - Hacker does a DIY Amiga in FPGA (hetnet.nl)

Submitted by on Thursday August 02, 2007 @04:32PM

An anonymous reader writes: Developer Dennis van Weeren recently announced completion of his from-scratch completely re-engineered Amiga chipset. His PCB design is fully operational and compatible and his verilog code has been released under GPL. Will this finally give the Amiga community a new breath of life?

UK Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs 241

Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday October 29, 2006 @11:15AM from the fair-use-i-think-it's-called dept.

jweatherley writes "The BBC reports that a UK think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has called for the legalization of format shifting. In a report commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, they state that copyright laws are out of date, and that people should have a 'private right to copy' which would allow them to legally copy their own CDs and DVDs on to home computers, laptops and phones. The report goes on to say that: 'it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.' The report also argues that there is no evidence the current 50-year copyright term is insufficient. The UK music industry is campaigning to extend the copyright term in sound recordings to 95 years."

Comment Re:I beg to differ... (Score 1) 339

by mpilsbury on Monday November 21, 2005 @10:21AM (#14081291) Attached to: Austrian Town Sees the Light

I think that should be GBP not UKP.

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