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now integrate the movie?

I’m in Japan for the fall, so I was eager to see MovieLink come online (not much on Japanese tv for a language-idiot like myself). As I was told by someone from the other side, MovieLink was intended to remove the “excuse” people had for “stealing” movies online — once a “cheap, fast system” was offered, there was no good reason not to pay. So does that mean that because non-Americans, and non-MicrosoftOS users don’t have a way to access MovieLink, they have an excuse to “steal”? This should be a general rule: If you don’t make it cross-platform compatible,… Continue reading

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more stupid wireless tricks

Doug Isenberg, whose GigiLaw.com and its companion Guide are a great resource, sent along some more examples of awful wireless marketing…. Continue reading

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“Are you WIRED?” but stupid?

The lack of broadband access at hotels drives me nuts. It was bad enough when you had to carry a screw driver and alligator clips. But it’s been years since cheap and effective broadband technologies should have been deployed in major hotels. So it was a pleasant surprise when I received spam about this offer from W Hotels — offering “free” Broadband Internet Access plus telephone calls — for stupid people, apparently…. Continue reading

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where in the network?

Right-to-tinker maven Ed Felton is skeptical that copyprotection would be placed in the network. “From an engineer standpoint, that assumption looks wrong to me,” he says. But what if we looked at Fritz “not an engineer” Holling’s perspective? The point of my article is that Congress is pushing copyprotection in the network, whatever engineers would argue is ideal. A differend DRM would undermine that push. (But so too would a different Congress for that matter.)… Continue reading

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