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...RIAA’s campaign against file-sharing services is only a sideshow, however, to its ongoing, two-year-old initiative to sue individual copyright violators. Though the RIAA has sued only about 13,000 of the estimated 60 million Americans using file-sharing software, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, these 13,000 people are disproportionately students. Settlements for affected students range from $4,000 up to as much as $8,000, not including legal fees. Clearly, if students at college campuses across America are going to continue illegally sharing files, they’ll need to wise...
...With the two countries mired in a state of low-grade tension, it's not surprising that their efforts to be (and be seen as) the region's heavyweight have entered a new and higher frontier. Both countries are focusing on increasingly visible and expensive manned missions and unmanned lunar landings within the next two decades. Space exploration is one area of national endeavor where developing China, the third nation to put a man in orbit around Earth, is not scrambling to catch up with its wealthier, more technologically advanced rival. Make no mistake, says Joan Johnson-Freese, the chair...
Nineteen European countries, fearing the linguistic hegemony of the English language, have initiated their own library digitization project. Though the fear is misguided—after English, digitization’s next frontier would inevitably be other languages—the action is not. If the European libraries can manage such endeavors successfully—and we see no reason why they will not—the world will be all-the-richer...
DIED. SERGEANT MARK MATTHEWS, 111, oldest of the "Buffalo soldiers," a legendary regiment of black G.I.s who fought frontier wars with Native Americans (they nicknamed the soldiers, whose curly black hair reminded them of a buffalo's mane), laid hundreds of miles of roads and telegraph lines and won 20 Medals of Honor; in Washington. One of the World War II veteran's early missions was tracking Mexican bandit Pancho Villa along the Mexican border. "I never met him," Matthews said, "but I knew where...
...eBay's chief financial officer, did not exactly clarify matters by posing the rhetorical question, "How do we make 1+1 equal to greater than 2?" Tech blogs are atwitter trying to figure out what's really behind this. Internet telecom pioneer Jeff Pulver hailed it as a new frontier in marrying e-commerce with communications. But longtime Web observer and Business 2.0 writer Om Malik, suggests that the deal is a desperate attempt by eBay to find new subscribers and to stem fraud. EBay is not alone on the internet phone bandwagon. In the past few weeks, Google introduced...