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Digital Media Winners and Losers of 2006

Posted by Zonk on from the there-were-many-of-both dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MP3 Newswire released its annual list of winners and losers in digital media for 2006. Winners include Azureus, the Pirate Bay, and YouTube. The losers list includes Streamcast, Captain Copyright (and his sidekick Lieutenant Lame), and the Online Guitar Archive. At the bottom of the post are links to past year's winners and losers lists."

2 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. Check out the Captain Copyright site now. by khasim · · Score: 4, Interesting
    http://www.captaincopyright.ca/Default.aspx
    Seems that they've picked up on how dumb their idea was.
    The Captain Copyright site was created for educators because they told us through surveys and focus groups conducted by an independent consultant that they needed tools to help them teach their students about copyright, but none were available.

    I can understand asking for more text books, smaller classes or new equipment ... but what "educator" is going to put "copyright education" on their list?
  2. I'm still not seeing it. by khasim · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Teachers or educators, however you'll have it, face the issue of copyrights, royalties, and public performance caveats all the time.

    I'm sure they do. But I'm not seeing why any of them would list it as something to spend money on teaching it to kids.

    To me, it sounds like their "independent consultant" wasn't as independent as was advertised. Particularly since Access Copyright
    http://www.accesscopyright.ca/
    was involved in the production.