Wednesday, April 28, 2004

Windows XP update delayed. Service Pack 2 for Windows XP, originally planned to ship in the first half of the year, will now at best be released in July. The major, security-focused operating system update doesn't yet meet Microsoft Corp.'s standards, a company spokesman said Wednesday. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use

MIT Student Grills Valenti on Fair Use
Movies
Media
Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 28, @01:32PM
from the un-something-believable dept.
kcsduke writes "Following a recent speech at MIT on Movies in the Digital Age (streaming audio available), MPAA front man Jack Valenti sat down for a revealing interview with The Tech, MIT's student newspaper. In this entertaining read, Keith J. Winstein grills Valenti on fair use and the right to play DVDs under GNU/Linux. My favorite part is when Winstein shows a dumbfounded Valenti a six-line DVD descrambler he's designed, to which Valenti responds with language inappropriate for the Slashdot homepage. Throughout the interview, Valenti demonstrates his ignorance and misunderstanding of fair use."

 [Slashdot]


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