Category: Social issues
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The end of the pro-P2P French legislation
Everything shows that the French Members of Parliament (Députés) are currently discussing the end of the attempt to install in France a law that would favor freedom for Internet downloaders. The new law currently lacks any reference to the global license (and its explicitly included remuneration of artists whose music would be downloaded by the…
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Free Movie: The cabinet of Dr Caligari
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari is a great classic movie from Robert Wiene (Germany, 1920) available from public domain.
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Free movies
The Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Thanks to the efforts of a few half-mad half-genial men, The Internet Archive is attempting to archive all the contents of the world wide web. This led to the creation of an exceptional hardware/software combination (for example, there are hundreds of Terabytes of memory online). While they had…
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New technologies: Updated availability schedule
If we look quickly, here are a few of the significant availability dates for some important technologies for PC computers around us: Windows Vista: awaited for the first week of October HD-DVD: announced for March 2006, but probably without write capacity (because DRM will not be implemented yet) Blu-Ray DVD: announced for May 2006 at…
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Download others – legally
Music friends, noise friends, sound friends, ear sportsmen and sportswomen, here you will not need Kazaa, eDonkey, eMule, BitTorrent, or soulseek; In short, no P2P or Warez wbe site, your old wbe browser is enough. You will only find good old links and download and listen to music coded in Ogg or MP3 format, freely…
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No ATI/nVidia board is HDCP compatible
It has just been confirmed that currently the existing graphic cards on the market will not be able to play High-Definition DVD. Even when they display an HDCP-compatible label. As said on Darknet.com: