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Carp says Kodak's workers understand the pressure the company is under. But that does not necessarily mitigate their misery. The tyranny of micromanaged productivity, says a veteran employee, hangs like a cloud over Kodak's rank and file: "You're accountable for everything you do, or don't do, all the time. You're worried that you may not have a job from one week to the next, and you don't know whether, if you come up with a good idea to save the company money, you could cost people their jobs...
...suit in the Third Circuit was brought by the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR), a coalition of law schools, as well as several individual plaintiffs. Harvard did not join FAIR, although a majority of the Harvard Law faculty did file a friend-of-the-court brief on FAIR’s behalf last January...
Cohen is the author of a free program called BitTorrent, which has been downloaded more than 20 million times and underpins a new generation of file-sharing technology. BitTorrent addresses a couple of the biggest problems of file sharing--that downloading bogs down when lots of folks access a file at once, and that some people leech, downloading content but refusing to share. BitTorrent eliminates the bottleneck by having everyone share little pieces of a file at the same time--a process techies call swarming. And the program prevents leeching since folks must upload a file while they download...
...speeds. With more folks logging onto the Internet via broadband connections, online trading of movies, TV shows and porn is surging. Downloads of feature films alone are up 175% in the past year, says BigChampagne, another Web-tracking firm. In response, the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) recently filed dozens of civil suits against tracker sites in the U.S. and Britain, as well as criminal complaints against sites in France, Finland and the Netherlands. The industry is hoping that in a case scheduled for next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will rule against firms that produce file-sharing software...
...evolves as software writers tinker with the code. A recent upgrade, called Exeem, blends the swarming technology with the more robust search capabilities of earlier peer-to-peer software; instead of visiting tracker sites, users enter a title in a search box and Exeem scours the Web for the file--making it trickier for the piracy police to clamp down on scofflaws...