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Andrew Brown says the dark side of Microsof’s new Vista operating system is a nasty digital rights management system. Oh the relentless greed of the movie industry. In cahoots with Microsoft they are seeking to guarantee their billions in profits and to ensure Tom Cruise can continue to make $20 million a movie. Making the [...]
Posted by Marc Lee under intellectual property.
January 2nd, 2007
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Not sure how this one was missed by the filters. Thanks to Paul Willcocks for the snag: … [T]he Harper government – acting on an initiative started by the Liberals – pushed up health-care costs by handing big pharmaceutical companies a three-year extension on drug patents, preventing low-cost competition. The new rules affect about 25 [...]
Posted by Marc Lee under intellectual property.
October 25th, 2006
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