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Friday Afternoon Links
One DRM database to rule them all
Your every move at the airport could soon be tracked?
Mmmm.. Blue Screen of Death. .
Google Doesn’t Own All Video on the Internet
Sure, Google is plopping down an inordinate amount of money on Youtube, giving them control over so much video content on the net. But they don’t own all of it yet. Here are some sites offering up nice animated alternatives to Youtube (although I bet a good deal of it ends up there anyways).
Japan Looking to Install 10Tbit Backbone
Oh, if only the following paragraph were describing broadband in the U.S
NTT says it needs to step up from its current DWDM backbone, which multiplexes 10-Gbit/s signals, to a 10-Tbit/s network that can support multiple 100-Gbit/s channels because “data traffic has been doubling every year due to the rapid spread of broadband access.” NTT says 10-Tbit/s transmission over a single fiber has so far been achieved in the lab.
Apparently, since Japan has been deploying extremely fast broadband down the last mile, their backbone has started becoming saturated with the extra use. I get promotions for SBC DSL at an amazing 6mpbs, and the Japanese are talking about updating their backbone because consumer’s 100mbit lines are straining the country’s pipes. So the next you get frustrated at uploading under 50kB/sec, just think about the Japanese upgrades to keep up with all those 100mbit lines. Gotta love broadband in the U.S.
NTT Plans 10 Tbits/sec Network
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As an employee at a locally owned restaurant, this kind of story just makes me sick:
Restaurant Owner Says Songs May Cost Him His Business
Once again, the punishment for copyright violation is completely out of proportion with the crime. Between $750 and $30k PER SONG? $30k?! And this is for songs produced at least 30 years ago, one by an artist who has been dead for 36 years. Not to mention it was not the restaurant owner who played the songs, but a local band whose setlist he probably had no control over. I suppose he could have stopped the band as soon as they started playing, but that would risk losing bands from performing in the future. Of course, ASCAP did try to collect royalties from the Girl Scouts several years back so this really doesn’t surprise me. It just infuriates me.
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