We have some good news to share. The FSF was one of several activist organizations pushing for exemptions to the anticircumvention rules under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that make breaking Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) illegal, even for ethical and legitimate purposes. We helped bring public awareness to a process that is too often only a conversation between lawyers and bureaucrats. As of late last week, there are now multiple new exemptions that will help ease some of the acute abuse DRM inflicts on users. However, the main lesson to be learned here is that we should and must keep pushing. Individual, specific exemptions are not enough. The entire anticircumvention law needs to be repealed. We want to thank the 230 individuals who co-signed their names to our comments supporting exemptions across the board.
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Publisher: The Pencil Princess Workshop
Written By: R.L.S. Hoff
RRP: £9.44 / $12.99 (Paperback) | £2.43 / $3.34 (Kindle)
Reviewed by: Sebastian J. Brook
Continue reading "Q&A about doing a PhD with my research group"
Ten years ago, in the lead-up to Australia’s short-lived carbon price or “carbon tax” (either description is valid), the deepest fear on the part of businesses was that they would lose out to untaxed firms overseas.
Instead of buying Australian carbon-taxed products, Australian and export customers would buy untaxed (possibly dirtier) products from somewhere else.
It would give late-movers (countries that hadn’t yet adopted a carbon tax) a “free kick” in industries from coal and steel to aluminium to liquefied natural gas to cement, to wine, to meat and dairy products, even to copy paper.
It’s why the Gillard government handed out free permits to so-called trade-exposed industries, so they wouldn’t face unfair competition.
One year to the day since he left us.
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Manufacturer: Big Finish Productions
Written By: Andy Frankham-Allen
Published this year: Men, Masculinities, and Earth, edited by Paul M. Pulé and Martin Hultman (PalgraveMacmillan). It's a wide-ranging collection of studies and reflections on gender issues in the environmental crisis and the environmental movement, with a focus on men and masculinities.
Publisher: Three Ravens Publishing
Written By: John Drake
RRP: £12.00 / $25.84 (Paperback) | £4.25 / $5.86 (Kindle)
Reviewed by: Nathan Jones
NSW is doing what Labor’s Bill Shorten could not – explaining why Australia’s capital gains tax concession is knocking first home buyers out of homes.
Shorten went to the 2016 and 2019 elections with a plan – Labor would halve the capital gains tax concession used by landlords who buy and sell properties.
Before objecting to a proposed Wimbledon expansion, it’s worth considering the proportion of land occupied by fairways and greens
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The team over at Arcbeatle Press have been in touch with details of their P.R.O.B.E.: Out of the Shadows, short story anthology, continuing from the BBV Doctor Who spin-off films, which is now available to purchase from Amazon.
"Welcome to the Preternatural Research Bureau, also known as P.R.O.B.E. For decades P.R.O.B.E. has defended Earth from the strange, the paranormal, and the alien. Hidden away from the eyes of the public. Times have changed.