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So some fear that Blockbuster and Netflix are turning into giant free-movie banks as film fanatics rent once and burn for all their friends. Not so, says the NPD Group, a research group that has monitored the behavior of 12,000 Americans with software on their computers. Only about 1.5 percent of those even have DVD ripping software. And 2/3 of them used it in the first quarter of this year. -
1voteInterviews with youth Wikipedia administrators. Interesting perspectives on authorship and participation.
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1voteFemale high school athlete's picture goes viral online and, upsetting the student and her family.
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1voteMany people are watching this case closely, because it represents the first virtual-world property dispute to make it this far in a legal proceeding. If the eventual result is a ruling that Linden Lab has to give back the property, valued at around $8,000, it could have major implications for Linden Lab and makers of online games like World of Warcraft and many others.
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1voteAuthor published a book online under a creative commons license and is now upset that his work is being published for a profit by someone else.
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1voteThe next phase of Linden's response is more interesting. The company plans to develop an infrastructure to enable Second Life residents and landowners to enforce IP-related covenants within certain areas, or as a prerequisite for joining certain groups. In effect, Second Life's inhabitants will self-police their world, according to rules and social norms they develop themselves. This is exciting,
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1voteGroups of Second Life content creators were gathering digitally Tuesday to protest the dissemination of a program they worry could badly damage the virtual world's nascent economy.
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1voteWe’ve noted in recent months that debate over Turnitin — the antiplagiarism tool that has amassed a giant database of student papers — seems to be intensifying. Here’s a particularly interesting dispatch from that debate: a back-and-forth discussion of the service from Silver Chips Online, the student newspaper at Montgomery Blair High School, in Maryland.
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1vote... the implications of a recently-developed LibSL product called CopyBot. CopyBot allows the user to create a replication of an object, including textures, that is fully permissive. Needless to say this product has caused tremendous worry among content creators who want to understand how its use may possibly affe
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