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Each year, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) stages the International Day Against DRM (IDAD), and this year, we want to work with the community more closely than ever before and bridge the gap between anti-DRM activists, those involved with the software freedom movement, and everyday individuals. Together, we'll stand up against DRM on December 10th.
As one of the most memorable parts of last year's Day Against DRM was our informal advocacy strategy session held over BigBlueButton, we want to begin our public planning of the event with a similar meeting. We're inviting you to collaborate with us in the preparation for this year's IDAD, sharing suggestions and anti-DRM activism methods, as well as organizing online satellite events.
One of the contributors of a fantastic new Doctor Who book has been in touch with details of a new title, chronicling the history of the Blackpool Doctor Who Exhibition. Below is the press release from the website, where you can also download the books for FREE:
Blackpool Remembered and Blackpool Revisited are FREE digital publications, collated and edited by John Collier. They celebrate the original Doctor Who Exhibition on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, which ran from 1974 to 1985, and the Doctor Who Museum, which ran from 2004 to 2009.
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Publisher: Self Published
Written By: Nathan Jones
RRP: £7.99 / $9.99 (Paperback) | £2.99 / $4.12 (Kindle)
Reviewed by: Sebastian J. Brook
The foreign secretary has reached her peak, so she should stop playing the game and get Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe out of jail
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Hello! I finally wrote about the Farmhouse Style!
Note: this piece includes the phrase “the Yeti cooler of houses.”
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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
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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
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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