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Why Stanford’s New DMCA Handling Policy Protects Their Reputation, Not Their Students
Just recently Stanford announced that they will be charging their students fees to reconnect to their network after being removed due to a Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice. This new policy is set to take effect in September with the fees starting at $100 for the first DMCA violation a student receives, which then [...]
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How Price Comparison Site Results in Google Hurt Consumers
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Ask yourselves this, when last have you been able to find a decent tech review on Google? Sure, sometimes you may come across one or two reviews from major sites, but in my experience it seems that every time I try and Google for a tech product review I get inundated by dozens of search [...]
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Students Suing i2Hub for RIAA Settlements
This showed up a few days ago, but I just noticed it today as it was mentioned on This Week in Tech. Apparently quite a few students from UMASS are suing the creator of i2Hub because they were targeted by the RIAA for sharing music on the Internet 2 P2P network. Absurdity like this is [...]
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Broadband in America
Looks like I got Salon Slashdotted for their “Free American Broadband” article. I hope this gives them a little extra business, they’re too great a webmag to be hurting for subscribers.
On the issue at hand, I’ve been reading about the internet access in other countries for a while now, and it always struck me [...]
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Hello World! & Google Maps
So as promised in my other blogs, I’m starting this to serve as a place to store my thoughts on technology. While I am a tech whore, I’m also wary of the ill effects of blind technological progression. Perhaps some day my thoughts will have a more official capacity, but for now this [...]
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Why We Owe Al Gore for the Internet