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  1. finally got an Audible subscription, great service, have an issue with the DRM but it does allow you to burn an audio CD
  2. finished listening to Margaret Atwood's The Year of the Flood, great book
  3. @marvicleonen hi sir, were they able to gain control of your account or just spoof your twitter address (make it appear that you sent it)?
  4. For ebooks to gain greater user acceptance, people should start releasing ebooks in unprotected PDF format, before then - just say no to DRM
  5. Google Scholar does legal research - cool! a step toward open access to legal information http://bit.ly/19VYLA
  6. WTO to combat censorship? Good aim but shouldn't we be worried when the WTO goes beyond trade issues - remember TRIPS http://bit.ly/4pTdk
  7. A pan-european ID standard is bittersweet - it's good that it's interoperable but there are privacy and security issues http://bit.ly/4CqDWA
  8. UK High Court rules that just because something has been placed online doesn't mean it's public http://bit.ly/40Drrw
  9. ACTA, especially its alleged global DMCA/DRM provisions, is a terrble idea, DRM is a social and market failure http://bit.ly/8IhWkn
  10. Resisting getting an ebook reader until ebooks are relased completely DRM-free, think MP3 for ebooks, ePub isn't it, http://bit.ly/3eJ3Wr
  11. Just got a Google Wave invite, now to find people to wave with/to
  12. DVRs improve TV ratings, another example of why IP issues should generally not be used to limit technological advances http://bit.ly/rB3w8
  13. Microsoft opens up PST format, another social and cultural change spurred by the FOSS movement http://bit.ly/4Ckuuu
  14. Interesting article about open source as an antitrust strategy http://bit.ly/3uMkJr
  15. Being online doesn't make me anti-social http://bit.ly/1f9wx9
  16. E-government services, triumph of mordernisation, but where's the democracy? http://bit.ly/3JB6HX
  17. Another example of governmentality at work in the digital age, UK ISP Code of Practice on broadband speeds http://bit.ly/2IQ8J6
  18. The Alex ereader is a cool concept but why doesn't someone just create an e-ink monitor to connect to our computers http://bit.ly/1k5UwS
  19. The US FCC's approach to net neutrality is promising http://bit.ly/4ylbmk
  20. Broadband is now a legal right in Finland, first step to recognising internet access as a human right http://bit.ly/20P8FP