Museums cannot use preservation as an excuse for banning flash photography (although it could be annoying for bystanders):
_To actually double fading would need 100,000 amateurs a day. Most museums would kill for those attendance figures!
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DRM erodes consumers’ rights, says NCC:
http://www.out-law.com/default.aspx?page=6546
The broadcast flag is back in the US:
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/01/21/broadcast_flag_is_ba.html
Singer Tom Waits spends much of his time trying to stop other people even sounding like him:
http://newsgrist.typepad.com/underbelly/2006/01/tom_waits_copyr.html
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