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This model is similar, on a small scale, to what William Fisher, director of the Berkman Center, outlines in Promises to Keep, his forthcoming book on digital copyright. Under Fisher’s system, a government-managed distribution network would record when people accessed the work, then pay the artist in proportion to the number of hits...
...Students may not attempt to circumvent security systems or to exploit or probe for security holes in any Harvard network or system, nor may students attempt any such activity against other systems accessed through Harvard’s facilities,” the guidelines state...
Harvard remains ranked in both the Sports Network and ESPN polls, sitting at No. 23 in both. Ordinarily, I would remark that the Crimson’s position behind three teams that have three losses—Northern Arizona, Idaho State and Northwestern State—proves that the Ivy League teams don’t get the respect they deserve, but that would be negative...
...transfer has been highly guarded by record companies since the high-quality music downloads compete with CDs—it was thought that this system would have satisfied all. The elegant setup might have allowed MIT to simultaneously keep students and record labels satisfied while mimizing the amount of network bandwidth used by illegal music downloads...
...idea of broadcasting music over a university network is one with true potential. But even if MIT had gotten the rights to broadcast the music, the new system’s methods would have failed at schools like Harvard, which does not have a cable network. There were also sacrifices made with the MIT system—not all students could control the music, the analog quality was not as rich-sounding as its digital counterpart and a fixed broadcast was an imperfect substitute for playing downloaded MP3s, when the listener easily controls every song he or she plays...