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Submission + - The Unauthorized State-Owned Chinese Disneyland

Submitted by

rmnoon

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @06:05PM

rmnoon writes: "Apparently Japanese TV and bloggers have just discovered Disney's theme park in China, where young children can be part of the Magic Kingdom and interact with their favorite characters (like Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, and the Seven Dwarfs). The park's slogan is "Because Disneyland is Too Far", and there's even an Epcot-like dome. The only problem? Disney didn't build it, and they didn't authorize it. What's more? It's state-owned!

Now that China is hosting the Olympics and seeking to build international credibility, what responsibility does it have to not engage in blatant violations of international trademarks in publicly-owned operations?"

Submission + - RIAA Backs Down Again in Chicago

Submitted by

NewYorkCountryLawyer

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @02:37PM

NewYorkCountryLawyer writes: "The RIAA seems to have a problem making things stick in the Windy City. It has once again backed down in BMG v. Thao, after suing a misidentified defendant. Same thing occurred last October in Elektra v. Wilke. In the Thao case, the RIAA based its case on information that the cable modem used to partake in file sharing was registered to Mr. Thao. However, it turned out that Mr. Thao was not even a subscriber (pdf) of the ISP (pdf) at the time of the alleged file-sharing, and therefore did not have possession of the suspect cable modem at that time."

Submission + - Improvements to the Download Process

Submitted by ant_tmwx on Saturday February 24, 2007 @05:55PM

ant_tmwx writes: Metalinks collect information about files in an XML format used by programs that download. The information includes mirror lists, ways to retrieve the file on P2P networks, checksums for verifying and correcting downloads, operating system, language, and other details. Using Metalinks details the Free Software programs you can use to download them with. There are also clients on Mac and Windows. With a list of multiple ways to download a file, programs can switch to another method if one goes down. Or a file can be downloaded from multiple mirrors at once, usually making the download go much faster. Downloads can be repaired during transfer to guarantee no errors. All this makes things automatic which are usually not possible or at least difficult, and increases efficiency, availability, and reliability over regular download links. OpenOffice.org, openSUSE, and other Linux/BSD distributions use them for large downloads.

Comment Reminds me of a link from an earlier /. posting (Score 0) 728

by Bruno_me on Monday February 13, 2006 @02:29AM (#14703845) Attached to: The Great HDCP Fiasco

http://www.macfergus.com/niels/dmca/cia.html

How there is some huge security hole in hdcp. I really don't think we have much to worry about, as people will break this, publish the results, and we can get all the movies pirated.

I'd much rather download movies and have the risk of being caught then paying a ton of money for movies that won't even play at full resolution on the computer I already own.

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