Glowrich on New Media

Legal download when artist agrees with downloading?

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

A few days ago a Dutch judge ruled that downloading a copy from an illegal source (ie. most downloading) is illegal as well. This seems fair enough, although most (all?) lawyers are not convinced that the ruling is  justly banning illegal downloads. I think none of us would really care if it's ...

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What will really be the Official News 2.0?

Saturday, June 14th, 2008

Blogging was celebrated as the democratization of reporting or publishing but this hasn't really gone off yet. Instead of opening up traditional news-sites with original stories from local, on the site, reporters with a vast knowledge of the area, the Associated Press (AP) or national equivalents like the dutch ANP hold ...

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