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national news You Think That's YOUR Radio?! Satellite and Internet radio services would be required to restrict listeners' ability to record and play back individual songs, under new legislation introduced recently in the U.S. Senate. Famous DJ Arrested over License Issues Read the article. DJ Drama, one of Southern rap’s biggest names was arrested for using other artists’ music without a license in his compilations. 100,000 MySpace Accounts Hacked and it's our own fault Hackers laid a fake login page over MySpace pages and collected over 100,000 passwords. What analysts found was that the passwords were just TOO EASY! The latest DMCA Ruling About Copyright The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of 1998 requires the U.S. Copyright Office to periodically consider exemptions to its "anticircumvention" provisions. It is these provisions that effectively prevent instructors, researchers, and other consumers from "breaking" technological barriers to content, even for purposes that would be legitimate under fair use or other portions of copyright law. On November 27, the Copyright Office officially enacted six new exemptions, several of which are of direct relevance to colleges, universities, and libraries. Film professors, for example, may now bypass content locks to create compilations of audiovisual clips for classroom use. Other exemptions apply to the investigation of security flaws, archiving of content in obsolete formats, and content access for users with visual impairments. PC World's 10 Worst Games Ever Still attached to your Commodore64 system? Take a walk through memory lane with this hilarious list. Entertainment Industries Ask College Presidents to Halt Internet Piracy on Local Networks TRADE GROUPS for the recording and movie industries have sent letters to 40 college presidents, asking them to stamp out music and movie piracy on local networks that students are setting up on campuses. Read Full Story
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