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File-sharing, Digital Rights Management, Etc.

Posted by michael on from the another-brick-in-the-wall dept.

Politech has a couple of good articles on political developments in the post-Napster world. (That's almost a Katz phrase there, isn't it?) The folks behind Kazaa, when they're not busy spying on their userbase, took the time to write to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee after a bashing they took a few weeks ago. Kazaa's new owners suggest a general royalty fee, perhaps similar to the recent webcasting fees, be put in place to compensate intellectual property holders for file-sharing. Meanwhile, the European Commission takes a look at digital rights management. Looks like Europe will get its own version of the SSSCA.

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  1. not a first post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    just to keep the trolls from getting it

  2. first by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    wow.. you all suck.. i am the greatest human being alive

    p.s. i love GaylordFucker

  3. Re:I hearby claim Slashdot for the Trolls. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

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    The only reason I read slashdot anymore is because of the trolls. Despite this, I still believe trolling is the moral equivalent of sneaking out at 4:00 A.M. to shit on someone's lawn-- smelly, but incredibly funny when the victim uses linux.


    -mode0x13

  4. Re:Are there any free nations left? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, that sure is ironic. Maybe IP protections are a good thing after all?

  5. Wider and wider by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  6. Re:Hilary Rosen sucks my cock! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ( x ) -- here's your ass when I'm done.