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“A country bumpkin approach to slinging generalizations around”
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Andrew Orlowski
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WiReD magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson has copped to lifting chunks of material for his second book Free from Wikipedia and other sources without credit. But it could be about to get a lot worse. In addition to the Wikipedia cut’n’pastes, Anderson appears to have lifted passages from several other texts too. And in a quite…
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Inside Adam Curtis’ funhouse
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Andrew Orlowski
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After a few promises not to spoil the plot, I stepped through Punchdrunk’s It Felt Like A Kiss while the sets were being built Read more at The Register… Read More
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Carterware – it’s the new vapourware
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Andrew Orlowski
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“As yet, we’ve seen nothing that fulfils the consumer demand of sharing music, for which most of the public would apparently part with a fair bit of cash. So this is software or a service announced in response to a Government edict.” … Read More
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A Copyright Summit diary
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Andrew Orlowski
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Anecdotes about treating Korean internet addicts, Charlie Nesson, and the Comic Book Store Guy. The strong ‘negative’ rating suggests at least one of these touched a nerve. Dr Yong-Kyung Lee, head of Korea Telecom and a policy advisor to the Korean government, amazed delegates with his descriptions of high tech Korea. Lee was a Bell…
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‘Thousands’ sign up for legal P2P
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Andrew Orlowski
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Tens of thousands of students have signed up to pay for a legal P2P music program in US universities, set to start later this year in experimental form. It’s Choruss, the incubator hatched by Jim Griffin – a long-time advocate of licensing P2P sharing on networks. Choruss won’t ultimately be in the retail or service…
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Baptiste: The Emperor Has No Clothes
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Andrew Orlowski
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. When you move from this to nothing, to “everything is free”, that’s not a real economy. Read more at The Register… Read More