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[90% Crud] On the Piracy Czar's press release this figure is touted: U.S. companies alone lose an estimated $250 billion per year [to copyright infringement], costing 750,000 American jobs. That's a lot of money and jobs, but does that count the money the was made from copyright infringement by companies like Microsoft?
Some related posts from Technorati and Google.
[Longtail.typepad.com] The Long Tail: "Just enough piracy": Following up on a panel we were on, he suggest that networked collections and interlibrary loans allow librarians to focus on niche material: "The good news about "the long tail" is that it is likely to free up librarians to do what they do best - manage finite collections of content with high levels of expertise while leaving to others the managing of massively popular content and specialized collections beyond their focus. Rather than focusing on easily reproduced content available commercially in electronic formats librarians can focus on obtaining and preserving truly rare content that is most important to their local patrons' needs.
[Boingboing.net] Boing Boing: February 2004: This humble Geocities site was BoingBoinged and Fleshbotted in one day, and is now inanimate. BoingBoing reader Pete says of the site's creator, "There's occasionally more toy fun in her weekly comic strip, and her home page is here."
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Posted at September 03, 2005 10:47 AM
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