Going after preschools is high on the list of ways to turn your licensing organization into a “bad PR generator,” but that hasn’t stopped the Motion Picture Licensing Company from targeting Irish tots. The group, which offers licenses to show movies outside the home, has been trying to squeeze a few euros out of preschool students on grounds that the kiddies sometimes watch a few minutes of SpongeBob. Unfortunately, the group didn’t pick up the necessary Irish license for collecting copyright fees first.
The MLPC is a collecting society for the movie business. It offers licenses around the world so that businesses and charities and government agencies around the world can legally show films in the presence of customers and employees. Without such a license, non-home use is generally illegal and anyone who wanted to show a film in a public setting would have to secure individual permission from the copyright owner.
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Hands-On With StarCraft 2: New Technology, Classic PlayFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-09-03 08:43:10
While there were plenty of big-name games at the 2008 Penny Arcade Expo, few titles had people willing to wait in line for hours upon hours to play. One of those games was Fallout 3, a title we played extensively at E3. The other was StarCraft 2, Blizzard’s sequel to the unimaginably popular 1998 original. The show floor opened a few hours early for press on Friday afternoon, and there was only one destination in our minds.
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more Dell Inspiron Mini Netbook Coming this WeekFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-09-03 08:38:32
We can thank ASUS for ushering in the netbook era with its tiny Eee personal computer. Since the introduction the netbook segment has boomed and many different models of netbooks are being offered from virtually all notebook makers.
DailyTech has been following the Dell entry into the netbook market for a while now, which was called the Dell Inspiron Mini when it was first covered in June. According to Information Week, the system will now be called the Inspiron 910 or Inspiron Mini 9.
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more Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors To Power New HP Blade ServerFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-09-03 08:37:17
AMD has announced that its Quad-Core Opteron processors are been adopted for Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s) latest ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade.
Businesses requiring the flexibility to support more virtual machines per server can now choose from a broad suite of Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers from HP, ranging from blades to high-performance multi-processor platforms, said the company.
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more VMware Ships Patches For ‘Highly Critical’ Server FlawsFrom: pengwin.homelinux.org
Post Date: 2008-09-03 08:28:08
Virtualization specialist VMware has shipped a mega-patch to cover several “highly critical” vulnerabilities affecting its server and workstation product lines.
In all, the patch batch addresses at least 16 documented vulnerabilities affecting the VMware Workstation, VMware Player, VMware ACE, VMware Server and VMware ESX server.
The flaws put users at risk of arbitrary code execution, information disclosure, privilege escalation and denial of service attacks.
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