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[FYI] (Fwd) FC: MP3 battles at CFP; EFF Pioneer Awards
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- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 18:58:55 +0100
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 08:39:43 -0400
To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu
From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Subject: FC: MP3 battles at CFP; EFF Pioneer Awards
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http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/19007.html
MP3 Foes Cussing Out in DC
by Declan McCullagh
3:00 a.m. 8.Apr.99.PDT
WASHINGTON -- What do you get when
you put MP3 activists, disaffected
musicians, and recording industry
lobbyists in the same room? Answer:
expletives, arguments, and plenty of hard
feelings to go around.
During a Wednesday panel at the
Computers, Freedom, and Privacy
conference, artist Henry Cross
complained that the recording industry
was an "Orwellian" organization
intent on avoiding competition with MP3,
a popular music compression technology.
[...remainder snipped...]
http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/18990.html
Yugoslav Dissident Lauded
The man who strung the Internet into embattled
Yugoslavian broadcaster Radio B-92 won a Pioneer
Award
from
the Electronic Frontier Foundation. And he's
there to
claim his
prize. Declan McCullagh reports from Washington.
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