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Submission + - Copyright advocacy group violates copyright (scienceblogs.com)

Submitted by

word munger

on Monday August 27, 2007 @02:46PM

word munger writes: "Commercial scholarly publishers are beginning to get afraid of the open access movement. They've hired a high-priced consultant to help them sway public opinion in favor of copyright restrictions on taxpayer-funded research. Funny thing is, their own website contains several copyright violations. It seems they pulled their images directly from the Getty Images website — watermark and all — without paying for their use! Clearly their agenda is simply to make using copyrighted materials inconvenient and expensive for everyone but THEMSELVES."

Submission + - Many antivirus tools fail in LinuxWorld test (darkreading.com)

Submitted by

talkinsecurity

on Thursday August 09, 2007 @12:36PM

talkinsecurity writes: "In a public, side-by-side test conducted last night at LinuxWorld, ten antivirus products were confronted with 25 known viruses. The results were surprisingly disparate. Only three of the products caught all of the viruses; three only caught 61 percent, and one caught an abysmal 6 percent. The test, which wasn't particularly complicated, proves that there still are wide differences in the effectiveness of AV tools. A lot of people think all AV tools are the same — they're not! http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=131 246&WT.svl=news1_1"

Submission + - Proposed Amendment Would Ban All DVD Copying

Submitted by Ynefel on Thursday June 21, 2007 @08:37AM

Ynefel writes: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2148802,00.as p "A proposed amendment to the current copy protection license governing DVDs would completely ban all DVD backups, and prevent DVD playback without the DVD disk being present inside the drive. The proposed amendment was made public in a letter sent by Michael Malcolm, the chief executive of Kaleidescape, a DVD jukebox company which successfully defeated a suit by the DVD Copy Control Association (DVD CCA) this past March. The proposed amendment is scheduled for a vote on Wednesday, according to Malcolm. " etc, etc, etc

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