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Comment Re:No Kidding (Score 5, Informative) 101

The algorithm for Google PageRank is based on the concept of citations from academia

Exactly!
Quoting from the original paper: "It is obvious to try to apply standard citation analysis techniques to the web's hypertextual citation structure. One can simply think of every link as being like an academic citation. So, a major page like http: www.yahoo.com will have tens of housands of backlinks or citations pointing to it" [L Page, S Brin, R Motwani, T Winograd. The pagerank citation ranking: Bringing order to the web ].

the software was originally meant only to index academic papers

That's not right. From the same original paper:
"PageRank is a global ranking of all web pages, regardless of their content, based solely on their location in the Web's graph structure "
Anyway you are right, and the article's idea sounds way too old: probably an example of two research communities (physics & citation analysis) not knowing too much of each other

The Courts

Submission + - Record Labels Sue Spanish P2P Pioneer For $20M

elguillelmo writes: Promusicae, the Spanish record industry association, affiliate of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has sued MP2P Technologies and its founder, P2P pioneer Pablo Soto, for $20 million, citing unfair competition. Soto is behind the recently launched Omemo, an open source social media storage platform that allows users to share files anonymously and the MP2P protocol, among other developments.
"We intend to vigorously defend ourselves against this shake down attempt by the major label cabal," has said Pablo Soto in a statement published in his blog (in Spanish, Google translation), "Rather than embracing technology, they have chosen a path that will ultimately lead to their own demise".

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