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Comment Re:Reminder of who not to credit (Score 1) 151

by r5r5 (#48390545) Attached to: 25th Anniversary: When the Berlin Wall Fell

Why is such an insightful comment modded 'Flamebait'!?

"However, the civil rights portion of the [Helsinki] agreement provided the basis for the work of the Moscow Helsinki Group, an independent non-governmental organization created to monitor compliance to the Helsinki Accords (which evolved into several regional committees, eventually forming the International Helsinki Federation and Human Rights Watch)."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

Latvian "Helsinki-86 was the first openly anti-Communist organization, and the first openly organized opposition to the Soviet regime in the Soviet Union"

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Piracy

Submission + - European Commission's study debunks claimed digital piracy damages (europa.eu)

Submitted by r5r5
r5r5 writes: European Commission's Institute for Prospective Technological Studies has published the study where it concludes that the impact of piracy on the legal sale of music is virtually nonexistent or even slightly positive.
Study's results suggest that Internet users do not view illegal downloading as a substitute for legal digital music and that a 10% increase in clicks on illegal downloading websites leads to a 0.2% increase in clicks on legal purchase websites.
Online music streaming services are found to have a somewhat larger (but still small) effect on the purchases of digital sound recordings, suggesting complementarities between these two modes of music consumption. According to the results, a 10% increase in clicks on legal streaming websites leads to up to a 0.7% increase in clicks on legal digital purchase websites.
Television

Submission + - EU Court rules against exclusive TV licencing deal (digitaltvnews.net) 1

Submitted by r5r5
r5r5 writes: In possibly a ground braking rule European Court of Justice rules against exclusive rights to broadcast sporting events within a single member state. The motivation is that such an agreement would enable each broadcaster to be granted absolute territorial exclusivity in the area covered by its licence and would therefore eliminate all competition between broadcasters in the field of those services and would thus partition the national markets in accordance with national borders.
Could this be the beginning of dismounting the legacy system of exclusive distribution rights awarded to one company in one state?

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