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• The Austin 100: A SXSW Mix For 2010
  I usually do a best-of playlist for SXSW but this year I’ve not found the monster download of all the tracks. However, as second-best, NPR has seleted their top 100 tracks (that’s 10% of the festival) and put them online as streaming continuous-play radio.
  (tags: SXSW SXSW2010 Music Streaming NPR Radio)
• Why DRM Doesn’t Work
  Or, “how to ensure your customers can’t use your product and become ‘criminals'”. Great illustration of why “technical measures” are ridiculous and counter-productive.
  (tags: DRM Humour Comic Freedom Rights Copyright libraries downloads)
• Brits: tell the LibDem Peers not to bring web-censorship to Britain!
  The huge problem with the Digital Economy Bill – and one which I can’t help thinking is part of its design – is that it’s easy for attempts to fix it to be just as bad as the poison they are trying to fix, unless the fixes are very well thought through indeed. This is a case in point, where the opposition politicians are proposing amendments that sell our rights down the river too.
  (tags: DigitalEconomyBill Copyright Freedom Rights Censorship Internet)
• Elliott offers to take Novell private for $2 bln
  The season of change is clearly upon us. Seems even with Microsoft’s support Novell couldn’t cut it.
  (tags: Novell Unix)

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