Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

  • How NOT to do a music levy

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The European Court has upheld the right of copyright businesses in the EU to ask for a ‘private copying levy’, but slapped down Spain for applying it indiscriminately. The Court was hearing a case brought by the Spanish music collecting society SGAE against a storage vendor called Padewan. Spain provides a case study in how…

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  • Nokia ends cruel and unusual ‘Symbian programming’ practices

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Nokia has bowed to international pressure and agreed to end the cruel and unusual practice of programming natively for the Symbian OS. It still wants developers to target Symbian, but using the more humane Qt APIs instead. Nokia has also torn up the OS roadmap, and will speed up the delivery of new functionality to…

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  • Legal P2P fails (again)

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “The EFF doesn’t have a plan, they barely have a theory,” Jim Griffin’s bold plan to take P2P file sharing out of the black economy, and into the one that deals with green folding stuff, flopped because it couldn’t explain to songwriters how they’d get paid.… Read More

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  • French taxpayer to subsidise music buyers

    French taxpayer to subsidise music buyers

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The European Commission has approved a French scheme to subsidise music downloads for 15-25 year olds. The taxpayer will contribute €25 per user per year to every “Carte Musique” cardholder, which entitles the user to €50 worth of downloads. The cardholder will stump up the other half of the cost of the card. The proposal…

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  • When Dilbert came to Nokia

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    You may have had your fill of Nokia analysis and features, but I’d like to draw your attention to one more – one that’s very special. The Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat has published a report based on 15 interviews with senior staff. It reads like the transcript to an Oscar-winning documentary where the narrative thread…

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  • Three things to improve Nokia Design

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Rather like the old Soviet Politburo, the goal is internal conformity, rather than exciting and surprising the punter. Read more at The Register… Read More

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