I never expected to stumble upon a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) story while standing beneath an unshielded light bulb in my garage, but that was before I picked up the manual for my garage door opener. I recently moved houses, and during a Saturday largely spent clearing a terrific mass from my new garage, I came across a tattered copy of the owner's manual for the garage door opener, thoughtfully left behind for my use. I read through the manual looking for information on how to acquire another remote control unit, when my eye was caught by the sort of statement one does not expect to find in any sort of literature relating to the humble garage door.
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The Wireless Home Digital Interface specification has reached its 1.0 milestone. It covers a protocol for forming a local wireless network that's able to shuffle 1080p broadcasts among devices, complete with copy protection and quality-of-service prioritizing.
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Two studies highlight how there is some genomic "dark matter" lurking in human populations, but that environmental differences, such as the contrast between rural and urban settings, appear to be more potent drivers of changes in gene expression.
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Some major players in the publishing world have partnered to develop an online storefront for magazines and newspapers. The idea is to offer a standardized advertising format while preserving each publication's look and feel, but details are somewhat lacking for the time being.
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Artists' lawsuit: major record labels are the real pirates Between $50 million and $6 billion may be owed to musicians and artists in Canada, but not from your run-of-the-mill file sharers. The Canadian recording industry itself is being accused of massive copyright infringement, and the list of miffed artists just keeps getting longer.
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While the major record labels were dragging file-sharers and BitTorrent sites to court for copyright infringement, they were themselves being sued by a conglomerate of artists for exactly the same offenses. Warner, Sony BMG, EMI and Universal face up to $60 billion in damages for pirating a massive 300,000 tracks.
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Music industry group IFPI has today submitted a request to the Stockholm District Court to force an ISP to hand over the personal details of an alleged file-sharer. The action marks the first time a request has been made by the organization under the IPRED legislation introduced in April.
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Google chief executive Eric Schmidt, who took some flak earlier this year for calling Twitter a "poor man's email system," has joined the hot micro-blogging service.
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