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• 06.21.07
  Del.icio.us Link Stroll: How Google Gears Could Kill Microsoft, Google Elucidates “Net Neutrality”, Judge Makes Life Difficult for the RIAA General, Google, Internet, Law, Microsoft | (0)

  Welcome to another leisurely stroll through my recently collected del.icio.us links. As always, feel free to add me ("Tenken" on del.icio.us) to your network if you'd like to share your own links with me. You can also subscribe to this RSS feed of my del.icio.us findings. How Google Gears Could Foreshadow Death for Microsoft: I've recently rediscovered Slate after spending most of my time over at Salon these past few months, and it's articles like this that make me kick myself for ignoring Slate for so long. Here, Slate's Harry McCracken argues that Google Gears introduces functionality that will be ...
• 05.24.07
  Why Stanford’s New DMCA Handling Policy Protects Their Reputation, Not Their Students Internet, Law | (0)

  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 gradually rises up to $1000 upon repeat offenses. A PDF of the full announcement can be found here. I recommend reading the Ars Technica overview for an excellent distillation of the new policy. For those unfamiliar with DMCA takedown notices, you can see an example from ...

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