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• Music and film industries split over pirates
  My own conversations of late suggest that wiser minds (or rather, minds that can make the reptile see the difference between food and fear) are starting to prevail in the various publishing industries, and the tone is softening as business models that leverage the realities of the 21st century instead of fighting them start to succeed.
• Supreme Court rules against Microsoft’s attempt to alter patent-infringement rules
  This is bad news, but given the shift to the right that’s happened in SCOTUS not terribly surprising. Let’s hope that Congress sees the case and realises that the law needs updating, as appears to have happened in the UK given the request for and then result of the Hargreaves report.

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