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Google shutting off your purchased videos? - Webware
Got this lovely e-mail from the fine folks at Google Video today. The one Deep Space Nine video I bought from them isn’t really mine after all. It turns out they’re shutting off all Google Videos after August 15. That’s right, if you bought a video from Google Video store, looks like you won’t be able to watch it after that date. Yep, even though you paid for it. Ain’t DRM lovely? They were nice enough to give me a credit I can use at Google Checkout, but no actual refund. You’ve got a week to watch this before it goes away.
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Wikipedia entry for Digital Copyright Canada? - Digital Copyright Canada
When I was browsing Wikipedia I found an article on MP3 Newswire that referenced Digital Copyright Canada so thought I would create a Wikipedia article for our group. I wasn’t even finished editing the page before it was slated to be deleted. I’m pretty much giving up on Wikipedia as it seems to have become as controlled as traditional encyclopedia as far as contributions are concerned. Contributing to a peer production project shouldn’t be this painful.
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New Tool Exposes Edits in Wikipedia - PCWorld
Wikipedia Scanner has traced Wikipedia changes to people at several large companies who appear to have altered potentially damaging content. A word of caution about editing entries “anonymously” in Wikipedia: a tool has been developed that can show who made the changes.
Tool shows who is fiddling their Wikipedia entry - New Scientist
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Google gags Facebook code leaker - The Register
Google’s legal Luftwaffe has swooped on Facebook’s behalf to shoot down an anonymous blog which posted two sections of source code leaked by the social network utility. Facebook Secrets was at the centre of the embarrassing code exposure over the weekend after it republished code served up by the site to student Trae McNeely. His story is here. The second dollop of PHP script was dished up by the blog on Monday.
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Bigger isn’t always better - Kansas City Star
That was the message Tuesday from the American Customer Satisfaction Index, which found that leading computer companies — and even Internet stalwart Google — were losing customer support as they got bigger. The index compiled by the University of Michigan showed a drop in consumer satisfaction with Internet search engines and portals for the first time. News and information sites gained slightly.
What Gives, Google? - InternetNews
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DirecTV in BPL deal with Current - Earthtimes
Satellite television provider DirecTV Group Inc announced yesterday that it would be providing high-speed Internet and voice services to its subscribers via electric power lines. The group said that these services would be carried by Current Group.
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iPlayer Politics: Behind the ISPs vs BBC row - The Register
Analysis: ISPs including Tiscali and Carphone Warehouse reportedly want the BBC to help pay for bandwidth incurred by usage of its iPlayer. But what’s the real power play? It is no surprise to find these two at the head of the queue to complain about the iPlayer. They have been the most aggressive participants in the broadband price war over the last two years and are now finding that their cost models do not stack up as content volumes grow.
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