- Apple included a copy protection scheme called High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) on the latest models of their MacBooks, released mid-October. HDCP prevents customers from playing content on external displays.
- Bowling Green High School in Kentucky tries to teach “Digital Citizenship.” Al Gore deports students who fall asleep in class.
- The EU launched an online library oh so creatively named Europeana (www.europeana.eu). Huzzah! The library includes such works as Beethoven’s 9th, Dante’s Divine Comedy and other stuff from people who are dead; a total of over two million works from one thousand libraries in twenty-seven EU States (we don’t call them countries anymore).
- Utah District Court Judge orders the destruction of elk. He also awarded $50,000 in damages and $30,000 in attorneys’ fees for trademark and copyright infringement.
- Judy McGrath, Chief Executive of MTV-Networks, comments that a “big part of [MTV's] future is working with advertisers and distributors and maximising intersting ways to involve them.” The reporter at the Economist hints that Ms. McGrath may be referring to “being more flexible when it comes to control over content on the web.”
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