the Business Software Alliance is a "far less unpopular organization" than the RIAA. I think the answers are quite illuminating. First, BSA's members have always offered their products for sale to the public, through any channel that wants to sell them. Second, BSA's members are consumer-oriented; they try to develop products that respond to consumers' needs, and not, the reverse: focusing on what they want to sell to consumers.
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Spacecraft Plan to Tackle Asteroids - 0 views
Designing First Robot Using Slime Mould - 0 views
Music Copyrighting - 0 views
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It is true that there have in the past been complaints about the music industry from the public and retailers -- retailers, almost all of whom have been driven out of business. These complaints are though about poor business practices, not business practices. The complaints aren't that the record industry is a business, but that it has been poorly run as a business.
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The CD is not a fair fight with the download.
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Castle 'rebuilt' in virtual world-TOURS OFFERED! - 0 views
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The 1740 virtual castle was cloned and then torn down to leave it looking like today's ruin.
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Second Life is the best-known virtual world on the internet.
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People are shown as digital versions of themselves, known as avatars, who can build homes and businesses, buy and sell land and have relationships.
BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Tough cure for China web addicts - 0 views
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The mostly male youngsters at this centre all have the same problem - they are addicted to the internet.
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elling, this is where they hope to be cured.
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And through a tough programme of physical exercise, medication and couns elling, this is where they hope to be cured. There has been a lot of interest in these boot camps over recent weeks after two teenagers were beaten up at two separate camps in China. One died, the other was seriously injured.
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YouTube Shares Video Profits with Individual Users - 0 views
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The new scheme aims to identify hugely popular videos from individuals
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Such videos are typically by individual users; the more entertaining among them get posted in many other places and as a result get a rapidly growing number of views.
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For instance, Lauren Luke of northeast England began posting make-up tips on YouTube in 2007. She was approached to become an advertising partner and now the hobby has become her main source of income.
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Look Ma, no textbooks - 0 views
Electronista | iPhone 3GS bestselling phone in Japan - 0 views
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Apple's third iPhone generation has ousted Japan's own phone manufacturers for the top sales spot in the country,
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People & Business Issue: People are the ones buying which brings sales up and this effects business.
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outsold even more advanced touchscreen phones from the local market, such as the runner-up Sharp SH-06. Of the top ten, the 16GB iPhone 3GS was the only other non-Japanese phone to make the list, occupying ninth place ahead of the Sharp SH001 camera phone.
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Comm Sys: technology that uses communications are involved.
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BBC NEWS | UK | Small town 'online crime hotspot' - 0 views
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Last year, 24% of all internet purchases there were made using stolen credit card details, according to security company The Third Man.
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Durham Police say investigations are being hampered because people are told to report fraud to their banks first.
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Shildon, in the DL area, is a former industrial town with a population of 10,000, and police believe that just one or two people may be responsible for the crime wave.
Hacking firms one click ahead of law - 0 views
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For $US100, the website provided Cioni, then living in northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL email account. For another $100, she got her boyfriend's wife's password. And then the password of another girlfriend and the boyfriend's children.
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Federal US law prohibited hacking into email, but without further illegal activity it was only a misdemeanour, said Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University.
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All the services advertise that they will email a screenshot of the target's inbox or even send an email from the target's account as proof that they've cracked the password. The customer then sends payment. One service then responds with the script of a scene from a Shakespeare play, with the stolen password hidden in the copy.
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