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We live in a connected world that becomes smaller by the day as technology and the internet brings everyone closer together. National boundaries mean very little online, and industries that still try and impose geographic restrictions are the ones that are suffering most in this digital revolution. If a film, album, or some software is [...]

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The last few years has seen a huge change in how people listen to music with more and more people turning to services like Spotify, Deezer, Napster, and We7 to stream music alongside purchasing it outright through iTunes, Amazon, or others. The streaming services give everyone millions of songs available at their fingertips for just [...]

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Scammers and con artists on the internet generally make their money by tricking the less web-savvy amongst us into parting with either their credit card or login details through fake sites, or convincing us that by paying them you can get unfettered access to all the pirated bounty of movies, music, and software that resides [...]

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The changes Facebook has made to its site over the years rarely go by without controversy – from opening the network to everyone, to changing privacy settings, to more recently introducing “frictionless sharing”. Whether you know the term or not, you’ll have definitely come across frictionless sharing at some point – it is the reason [...]

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Various news outlets yesterday were running with the headline that Oracle had won their case in court against Google/Android over a claim of breach of copyright over Java, but the answer is just not that simple. Yes the jury found that Google had copied some of Java when building Android – but they could not [...]

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As the sad news of the passing of Beastie Boy MCA (Adam Yauch) hit the internet after a long struggle with cancer, there was an outpouring of grief that would be expected for such an influential musician – and Twitter, as usual, was the place were people shared their feelings with the world. As people [...]

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