Mark's Musings

A miscellany of thoughts and opinions from an unimportant small town politician and bit-part web developer

19 January 2012
by Mark
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Why David Aaronovitch is wrong about Wikipedia and SOPA

Journalist David Aaronovitch has a full page opinion article in The Times today, which I can’t link to as it isn’t openly available online, in which he complains that “There’s nothing noble in this Wiki blackout”. Although the article is … Continue reading

7 January 2012
by Mark
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Study finds that filesharing is about convenience, not unwillingness to pay

Courtesy of an article in El Reg, I discovered an interesting report prepared by US think-tank American Assembly and Columbia University. Rather drily titled “Copyright Infringement and Enforcement in the US“, it’s a summarised set of results from an extensive … Continue reading