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Comment Re:Missing the bigger issue (Score 1) 331

by dario on Monday February 05, 2007 @06:57PM (#17896998) Attached to: Gorbachev Asks Gates to Intervene in Piracy Case

The cost of software is way out of reach for most of these countries.

Pricing proprietary commercial software out of reach of a lot of young smart people is a good thing, IMHO. Easy availability of pirated DOS, Windows, compilers, etc. in Eastern Europe is why I only ran into Unix/Linux in college; something I wish happened a hell of a lot earlier.

Gorbachev Asks Gates to Intervene in Piracy Case 331

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 05, 2007 @06:14PM from the bit-exteme dept.

An anonymous reader writes to tell us that former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has asked Bill Gates to intervene in a software piracy case against the headmaster of a middle school. If convicted, Alexander Ponosov could face detention in a Siberian prison camp for his crime.

Enemy At The Water Cooler 148

Posted by samzenpus on Monday February 05, 2007 @04:06PM from the trust-no-one dept.

Trent Lucier writes "On most networks diagrams I've seen, the internet looks like a cloud. Sometimes it's a fluffy white cloud. Other times it's a dark ominous cloud. Regardless of the artistic style, the depiction usually conveys the mystery and danger of putting your company's network on a global information grid next to a billion users, kind of like those old maps with dragons drawn at strategic places in the ocean. Not surprisingly, corporations spend much time and energy protecting themselves from The Outside World. In Enemy at the Water Cooler, Brian Contos argues that just as many resources should be spent on defending against insider threats. Will this book help you detect the enemies at your water cooler?" Read below for the rest of Trent's review.

Viacom Demands YouTube Remove Videos 225

Posted by Zonk on Friday February 02, 2007 @11:33PM from the moment-of-zen-everybody dept.

AlHunt writes "According to the folks at PCWorld Viacom has publicly scolded YouTube for continuing to host throngs of Viacom videos without permission. They are demanding that over 100,000 of its clips be removed from the site. This includes content from Comedy Central (no more Daily Show), MTV, Nick at Nite, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures, and VH1. YouTube has acknowledged receiving a DMCA request from Viacom, and the article notes what a dire precedent this could be if Google can't reach an agreement with Viacom and its fellow IP holders."

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