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• Digital Economy Bill – UK Election Digital Debate
  Hear Brown, Cameron & Clegg in their own words on the Digital Economy Act. Brown says it needs scrutiny, although he still let Mandelson ram it through. Cameron tries to defend the Tories colluding to let it through, and leaves one wondering whose side he's on. Only Clegg seems to understand how important the issue is. A clear LibDem win on this one, as the viewer voting reflects.
  (tags: DeBill DigitalEconomyBill UK Election Election2010 Politics Rights)
• The "fair use economy" is enormous, growing, and endangered by the relatively tiny entertainment industry
  While all industry consortium figures need to be treated with scepticism, it's good to see the technology industry fighting back against the well-funded astroturfing of statistics by the media lobby. This report from CCIA is of course funded by vested interests too but it puts on the table the idea that it's not "music & movie professionals versus pirate thief scum kids" as the media lobby has been framing it, but rather "niche media market vs much larger and more diverse 'fair use economy'".
  (tags: Media Statistics Piracy FairUse Copyright)
• Oracle's New Sun Support Policy May Disrupt the Hardware Maintenance Market
  Very simple model from Oracle to provide support Solaris and the hardware that runs it. The devil, of course, is in the details.
  (tags: Oracle Solaris SPARC Sun)

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