Week In Review 2011W09
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The big story this week was obiously the iPad2. The even bigger story is the fact the iPad2 cover is a bigger story than the iPad2. The iPad2 cover made Samsung rethink their tablet stuff but not too hard.
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One week after launch Nintendo announced the 3DS will have Netflix. Which is interesting for the requirements of Netflix :)
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Malware in Android Market!. Google yielded Apple like power and people rejoiced.
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IPv6 Home Network stuff is broken as anyone who’s trying to deploy IPv6 at ISP scale knows. Want IPv6 ? Stick to OpenWRT or DD-WRT as basically anything you pay money for is broken one way or another.
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Something interesting is brewing, the DoJ is looking into MPEG LA vs WebM. Most likely it will fizzle but if the DoJ finds foul play it might end up with MPEG LA being forced to license to WebM users on the same terms as they do to MPEG users. While we’re on patents, for all the things they do wrong, the UK Govt does somethings right. They decided Open Standards must be royalty free. That basically means when a vendor declares something is an “Open Standard” (like MS does Office) it must also declare the necessary intellectual property is available free of charge to 3rd party implementers. This makes things like H.264 or MSXML not Open Standards. Obviously, the BSA started lobbying against it right away.
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Ah our friends the Americans are funny. The priority copyright piracy watch list is as follows: Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Russia, Costa Rica, the Philippines, Spain, Ukraine, and Vietnam. So things that put you on the priority watch list: being a democracy, being a dictatorship, being rich, being poor, being developing, having advanced rule of law, being lawless. Things that keep you out of the priority watch list: being USA. Meanwhile the IFPI found selling music might actually result in people buying it. It’s a sad realization for them in 2011. Meanwhile, Sony is getting a US court to sue The World.