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Tag: 07.08.11
UK Illegal Downloads – Up 30 Percent In Five Years
“That research, from internet consultancy firm Envisional, indicates that the top five box office movies were illegally downloaded in the UK a total of 1.4 million times last year. Film industry bosses say it is costing £170m every year and putting thousands of jobs at risk.”
Internet Service Providers Prepare Punishment For Pirates
“Americans who illegally download songs and movies may soon be in for a surprise: They will be warned to stop, and if they don’t, they could find their Internet access slowing to a crawl.”
It’s Just Like The ’70s: Classical Stars Give Protest Concert To Support Russian Political Prisoners
Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Martha Argerich, Evgeny Kissin, and Arvo Pärt were among the luminaries appearing in Strasbourg “to draw attention to the continuing struggle of two former oil magnates, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky and Platon A. Lebedev, and, organizers said, other Russian political prisoners.”
The Shakespeare First Folio As Source, Commodity And Sacred Relic
An exhibition at the Folger Library surveys the book’s “material life over nearly four centuries: how it fared in the marketplace and in the hands of its owners; how copies were damaged and restored; how scholars have analyzed its text; and even how it has been stolen and recovered.”