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1) Editorial
Hello,
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PG hit 7500 earlier this week and special congratulations to PGOz who
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Last week the Total Count was 7,407, including 186 at PG of Australia.
This week we added 87 new (incl. 17 Aus.).
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Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, xxxxx11.txt, and
prior to 1998, occasionally a new eBook number.
VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, xxxxx10a.txt, as
well as a new eBook number.
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The following is being re-indexed to add corrected contents info, also
translator's name:
Dec 2004 Early Plays, by Henrik Ibsen (Tr.: Orbeck) [#11][?projxxx.xxx]7172
[Contents: Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans]
[Tr.: Anders Orbeck, A.M.]
The following is being re-indexed to correct the Title and Translator
info (8-bit chars didn't convert correctly <g>):
Dec 2004 Markandeya Purana, by Rev. B. H. Wortham (Tr.) [?markxxx.xxx]7169
[Title: Markandeya Purana, Books VII and VIII] [Tr: Rev. B. Hale Wortham]
The following have been re-posted in new editions as indicated:
Aug 2002 Spanish Prisoners of War, by W. Howells [WH#30][whspwxxx.xxx]3383
[HTM version in whspw10h.htm and whspw10h.zip]
Oct 1999 Songs of Innocence and Experience, by Wm. Blake[2][sinexxxx.xxx]1934
[HTML in sinex10h.htm/.zip]
Feb 1999 After Dark, by Wilkie Collins [Collins #15][ftrdkxxx.xxx]1626
[HTML in ftrdk10h.htm/.zip]
Apr 1998 Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens [CD #33-35][3ghstxxx.xxx]1289
[HTML version in 3ghst10h.htm/ .zip]
Contents:
The Trial for Murder [Dickens #35]
The Haunted House [Dickens #34]
The Signal Man [Dickens #33]
May 1997 Abraham Lincoln, by James Russell Lowell[Lowell#2][1lncnxxx.xxx] 906
[HTML in 1lncn10h.htm/.zip]
The following has been updated to a greatly improved 13th edition, also in
an illustrated html version as indicated (please note file size is 25MB):
Oct 1993 A Connecticut Yankee, by Mark Twain [MT#04][yankexxx.xxx] 86
[Full Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]
[Full Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]
[Illustrated HTML only in yanke13h.zip]
The following have been posted in an updated 11th Edition, plus new
formats as indicated:
We have posted a greatly improved 11th edition of the following:
Nov 1995 Beyond the City, by Arthur Conan Doyle [Doyle #7] [bcityxxx.xxx] 356
[Plain text in bcity11.txt/.zip]
And, there is now a greatly improved 19th edition of:
Feb 1991 Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll[Carroll2][lglassxx.xxx] 12
[Full author: Lewis Carroll [Charles Dodgson]
[Plain text in lglass19.txt/.zip]
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Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Complete [BL#99][b099wxxx.xxx]7671
[Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton][Contains: EBooks #7659-7670]
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 12 [BL#98][b098wxxx.xxx]7670
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 11 [BL#97][b097wxxx.xxx]7669
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 10 [BL#96][b096wxxx.xxx]7668
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 9 [BL#95][b095wxxx.xxx]7667
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 8 [BL#94][b094wxxx.xxx]7666
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 7 [BL#93][b093wxxx.xxx]7665
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 6 [BL#92][b092wxxx.xxx]7664
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 5 [BL#91][b091wxxx.xxx]7663
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 4 [BL#90][b090wxxx.xxx]7662
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 3 [BL#89][b089wxxx.xxx]7661
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 2 [BL#88][b088wxxx.xxx]7660
Mar 2005 What Will He Do With It, Lytton, Book 1 [BL#87][b087wxxx.xxx]7659
Jan 2005 Sou Shen Ji, volume 1-3, by Bao Gan--300 A.D [soushxxx.xxx]7260
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Shock and Awe, Harlan K. Ullman and James P. Wade [skawexxx.xxx]7259
[Full title: Shock and Awe, Achieving Rapid Dominance]
[Plain text in skawe10.txt/.zip; HTM version in skawe10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, Beckford [drwtxxxx.xxx]7258
[Author's Full Name: William Beckford]
[Text in drwt10.txt/.zip, XHTML in drwt10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Reflections and Comments, by Edwin Lawrence Godkin[?rflcxxx.xxx]7257
[Full title: Reflections and Comments 1865-1895]
Jan 2005 The Gift of the Magi-O Henry [Christmas story] [magixxxx.xxx]7256
[HTM only version in magi10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Cambridge Sketches, by Frank Preston Stearns [?cambxxx.xxx]7255
Jan 2005 Equinoctial Regions of America V3,von Humboldt[#3][qnct3xxx.xxx]7254
[Full author: Alexander von Humboldt]
Jan 2005 Letters of Lady Spencer-Stanhope, v1, by Stirling [?llssxxx.xxx]7253
[Full title: The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I.]
[Full author: A. M. W. Stirling (compiler)]
Jan 2005 The Women Who Came in the Mayflower, by A. Marble [?wcmfxxx.xxx]7252
[Author's Full Name: Annie Russell Marble]
[Plain text in 7wcmf10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8wcmf10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Sweet Cicely, by Marietta Holley [swcicxxx.xxx]7251
[Full title: Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen as a Politician]
[Full author: Josiah Allen's Wife (Marietta Holley)]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v9, by Twain [#121][ynk9wxxx.zip]7250
[Full Title: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]
[Full Author: Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)]
[Chapters 41 - End]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v8, by Twain [#120][ynk8wxxx.zip]7249
[Chapters 36 - 40]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v7, by Twain [#119][ynk7wxxx.zip]7248
[Chapters 32 - 35]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v6, by Twain [#118][ynk6wxxx.zip]7247
[Chapters 27 - 31]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v5, by Twain [#117][ynk5wxxx.zip]7246
[Chapters 23 - 26]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v4, by Twain [#116][ynk4wxxx.zip]7245
[Chapters 17 - 22]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v3, by Twain [#115][ynk3wxxx.zip]7244
[Chapters 12 - 16]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v2, by Twain [#114][ynk2wxxx.zip]7243
[Chapters 7 - 11]
Jan 2005 Connecticut Yankee, v1, by Twain [#113][ynk1wxxx.zip]7242
[Chapters 1 - 6]
[The above nine files are Illustrated HTML files zip only in ynk_w10h.zip]
[NOTE: The files average 2.5mb each]
Jan 2005 Fables of La Fontaine, by Jean de La Fontaine[#27][?ffabxxx.xxx]7241
[Full title: The Fables of La Fontaine A New Edition, With Notes]
[7-bit version in 7ffab10.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8ffab10.txt/.zip]
[HTM version in 8ffab10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Koenigs Lear, by William Shakespeare [#33][?gs33xxx.xxx]7240
[Full title: Das Leben und der Tod des Koenigs Lear]
[Language: German]
Jan 2005 Men, Women, and Boats, by Stephen Crane [#5][?mnwmxxx.xxx]7239
Jan 2005 My Four Years in Germany, by James W. Gerard [?mfygxxx.xxx]7238
Jan 2005 Roving East and Roving West, by E.V. Lucas [#2][?rovgxxx.xxx]7237
Jan 2005 Der Sturm The Tempest, by William Shakespeare[#41][?gs41xxx.xxx]7236
[Language: German] (See also English editions #2235, 1801, 1540, 1135)
Jan 2005 The Bride of Fort Edward, by Delia Bacon [brdftxxx.xxx]7235
[Subtitle: Founded on an Incident of the Revolution]
[Author's Full Name: Delia Salter Bacon]
[Plain text in brdft10.txt/.zip; HTM version in brdft10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Species and Varieties, by Hugo DeVries [spvrtxxx.xxx]7234
[Full title: Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation]
Jan 2005 Maass fuer Maass, by William Shakespeare [#31][?gs31xxx.xxx]7233
[Full title: Maass fuer Maass (Measure for Measure) Wie einer misst, so
wird ihm wieder gemessen] [Language: German]
Jan 2005 Romeo und Juliette, by William Shakespeare [#16][?gs16xxa.xxx]7232
[Christoph Martin Wieland (translator)] [Language: German] (See also #6996)
[7-bit version in 7gs1610a.txt/.zip; 8-bit version in 8gs1610a.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Light O' The Morning, by L. T. Meade [#4][?mornxxx.xxx]7231
[Subtitle: The Story of an Irish Girl]
Jan 2005 Not George Washington, by P. G. Wodehouse [#23][?ntgwxxx.xxx]7230
[Full title: Not George Washington An Autobiographical Novel]
Jan 2005 Rujub, the Juggler, by G. A. Henty [#12][rujubxxx.xxx]7229
[HTML version in rujub10h.htm/.zip; Plain text in rujub10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Laura Secord, by Sarah Anne Curzon [secrdxxx.xxx]7228
[Full title: Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812. A Drama. And Other Poems.]
[Plain text in secrd10.txt/.zip; HTML version in secrd10h.htm/.zip]
Jan 2005 Mornings in Florence, by John Ruskin [#4][?mornxxx.xxx]7227
Jan 2005 Timon von Athen, by William Shakespeare [#37][?gs37xxx.xxx]7226
[Language: German]
Jan 2005 Die Irrungen, by William Shakespeare [#6][?gs06xxx.xxx]7225
[Full title: Die Irrungen (The Comedy of Errors) Die Doppelten Zwillinge]
[Language: German]
Jan 2005 Within You is the Power, by Henry Thomas Hamblin [powerxxx.xxx]7224
Jan 2005 The Belgian Cookbook, by Various [?blgnxxx.xxx]7223
[Editor: Mrs. Brian Luck]
[Plain text in 7blgn10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version 8blgn10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Fra Bartolommeo, by Leader Scott [?frabxxx.xxx]7222
[Full author: Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)]
Jan 2005 Wenyuange Sikuquanshu, Several Chinese Authors [zzijixxx.xxx]7221
[Contains Etext #7209 and #7215-7220] [Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Zhu Zhai Ji, by Wang Mian [zzijixxx.xxx]7220
[Title: Zhu Zhai Ji (The Collections Of Bamboo-House)] [Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Wei Liao Zi, by Wei Liao [wlizixxx.xxx]7219
[Title: Wei Liao Zi (Military Science Of Wei Liao Zi)] [Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 San Lve, by Huang Shi Gong [sanlvxxx.xxx]7218
[Full title: San Lve (three tactics Of Huang Shi Gong)]
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Ren Wu Zhi (People Recodes), by Liu Shao [rwzhixxx.xxx]7217
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Gong Sun Long Zi, by Gong Sun Long [gslzixxx.xxx]7216
[Full title: Gong Sun Long Zi (Thought Of Gong Sun Long Zi)]
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Deng Xi Zi (Thought Of Deng Xi Zi), by Deng Xi [dxizixxx.xxx]7215
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Pan, by Knut Hamsun [?pan1xxx.xxx]7214
Jan 2005 My Life and Work, by Henry Ford [hnfrdxxx.xxx]7213
Jan 2005 Memories of Canada and Scotland, J. D. S. Campbell[?mcscxxx.xxx]7212
[Full title: Memories of Canada and Scotland Speeches and Verses]
[Full author: John Douglas Sutherland Campbell]
Jan 2005 The American Union Speaker, by John D. Philbrick [?tausxxx.xxx]7211
Jan 2005 The Motor Girls on Waters, by Margaret Penrose[#4][tmgwtxxx.xxx]7210
[Title: The Motor Girls on Waters Blue, Or The Strange Cruise of The Tartar]
Jan 2005 Wenyuange Sikuquanshu Gui Gu Zi, by Wang Xu [wesikxxx.xxx]7209
[Language: Chinese]
Jan 2005 Kathleen, by Christopher Morley [#5][kathnxxx.xxx]7208
Jan 2005 Menschliches, Allzumenschliches, by F. Nietzsche [?mschxxx.xxx]7207
[Subtitle: Ein Buch Fuer Freie Geister] [Language: German]
[Author's Full Name: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
[Plain text in 7msch10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8msch10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Die Geburt der Tragoedie, by F. Nietzsche [?gbrtxxx.xxx]7206
[Subtitle: Versuch einer Selbstkritik] [Language: German]
[Author's Full Name: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche]
[Plain text in 7gbrt10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8gbrt10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Also Sprach Zarathustra, by F. Nietzsche [?zaraxxx.xxx]7205
[Subtitle: Ein buch fuer Alle und Keinen] [Language: German]
[Author: Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche][See Also: The English translation #1998]
[Plain text in 7zara10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8zara10.txt/.zip]
Jan 2005 Jenseits von Gut und Boese, by F. Nietzsche [?jnstxxx.xxx]7204
[Author's Full Name: Friedrick Wilhelm Nietzsche] [Language: German]
(See Also: #4363 for an English version)
[Plain text in 7jnst10.txt/.zip, 8-bit version in 8jnst10.txt/.zip]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300581.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 Siren Land, by Norman Douglas [030057xx.xxx]0206A
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Mar 2003 The Sweet Cheat Gone, by Marcel Proust [030054xx.xxx]0203A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300541.txt or .ZIP]
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Mar 2003 Village Wooing, by George Bernard B Shaw [030052xx.xxx]0201A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300521.txt or .ZIP]
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Mar 2003 Swann's Way, by Marcel Proust [030051xx.xxx]0200A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300511.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 The Captive, by Marcel Proust [030050xx.xxx]0199A
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Mar 2003 Cities of the Plain, by Marcel Proust [030049xx.xxx]0198A
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[Author's full name: George Bernard Shaw]
Mar 2003 The Glimpse of Reality, by George Bernard Shaw [030047xx.xxx]0196A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300471.txt or .ZIP]
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[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300451.txt or .ZIP]
Mar 2003 "In Good King Charles's Golden Days", by G B Shaw [030044xx.xxx]0193A
[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300441.txt or .ZIP]
[and http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300441h.html]
[Author's full name: George Bernard Shaw]
Mar 2003 The Apple Cart, by George Bernard Shaw [030043xx.xxx]0192A
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Mar 2003 Shoot! (Si Gira), by Luigi Pirandello [030039xx.xxx]0188A
[Subtitle: The Notebooks of Serafino Gubbio, Cinematograph Operator]
[Tr.: C.K. Scott Moncrieff]
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3) News
200 Ebooks for Project Gutenberg of Australia
Earlier this week the 200th ebook was posted at Project Gutenberg of
Austrlia--'Swann's Way', the English translation by C K Scott-Moncrieff of
Marcel Proust's 'Du cote de chez Swann'. This work was recently posted at
Project Gutenberg in the US, however it is appropriate that we have it here
in Australia as well, since the translations by C K Scott-moncrieff of the
other novels which form part of Proust's epic work 'Remembrance of Things
Past' ('A la Recherche du temps perdu'), now often titled 'In Search of Lost
Time', are also in the public domain in Australia. In fact, this week we
also posted parts 4 and 5.
Bob Carr, Premier of New South Wales, is an intellectual and writer as well
as a politician. In his recent book, 'Thoughtlines' (published by Penguin
Books), he described 'Swann's Way' as "...relatively easy, an elegy of
middle-class rural life. A grandmother lovingly quotes her favourite French
classics. There are overflowing garden beds of hawthorn, the local river
filled with lilies. A loyal retainer from old peasant Frances serves the
family omelette, endives and beefsteak. An eccentric invalid aunt confines
herself to her bed.
"Only a rereading reveals Proust's deftly planted pre-echoes. Here are the
motifs and characters that will weave their way through all [the] fat
volumes. Swann's Way is the opening movement of a sprawling 'roman fleuve'
charting the progress of a group of Parisians over several decades, roughly
1880 to 1920"
According to Carr, 'Remembrance of Things Past' (Scott-Moncrieff gave it
this title as his translation of the French 'A la Recherche du temps perdu')
is "the most referred to but least read book in world literature. Yes, more
referred to and less read than 'War and Peace' or 'Moby Dick'. Perhaps only
'Ulysses' has more mentions and attracted fewer readers". Of course these
works are at Project Gutenberg, for those just itching to read them.
Should you desire more information about Proust and 'Remembrance of Things
Past', vist the Proust page at PGofOz at
http://gutenberg.net.au/pages/proust.html (follow the links if you want even
more).
The remaining parts of the work will be posted at PGofOz as they are
completed. It might be noted here that the Scott-Moncrieff, who died in
1930, translated all but the final part, 'Time Regained' ('Le Temps
retrouve'). This was translated by Sydney Schiff (a.k.a. Stephen Hudson) who
died in 1944 and whose translation is therefore also in the public domain in
Australia.
The first sentence of 'Swann's Way', and of 'Remembrance of Things Past' for
that matter, reads "For a long time I used to go to bed early". You might
need to, if you are going to attack this difficult yet rewarding work.
Still, if you don't start it you won't finish.
Bonsoir!
Col Choat.
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emacs program which insisted in translating the appropriate accents
into pure gibberish. - Alice}
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4) Notes and Queries
Book Review
From: Juliet Sutherland
Sometimes a book really brings home to me the realities of life over a =
hundred years ago. "Jim Cummings, or the Great Adams Express Robbery" by =
Frank Pinkerton, 1887c is an example. The most fascinating parts of =
this book did not, unfortunately, make it into the PG edition. I quote =
from the publisher's blurb in the advertisment for the Frank Pinkerton =
Detective Series, "Every book is a complete exposition of some real =
crime, which has been traced to the guilty person or conspirators by =
some eminent operative in the secret service. These stories, having =
facts for a foundation, are written in a fascinating manner, free from =
all improbabilities or mythical romances, but tell the methods, finesse =
of detective work, the hair-breadth escapes, the perilous situations, =
failures and triumphs, in readable and intensely interesting style." On =
reading this, I realized that I had found the 1887 equivalent of Crime =
Scene Investigators. A few pages further along in the front material is =
a listing of POPULAR NOVELS FOR SALE BY THE NEWS AGENT ON THIS TRAIN. I =
had another ahah! moment. I was holding in my hands the 1887 equivalent =
of the in-flight movie. I can't say that I've actually _read_ this book, =
so I can't recommend it. On the one hand, it passed through DP very =
quickly at a time when we didn't have many proofreaders, and on the =
other, as I finished up the processing, what little I read struck me as =
having very little literary value. I leave you to judge its literary =
value for yourself, but it certainly represents a wonderful piece =
popular culture history.
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5) This week in history
Literary Dates of Interest this week
Birthdays this week:
April
2nd Heinrich Hoffman, Konrad Gyorgy, Hans Christian Andersen (18), Emile
Zola(4), Casanova(33!)
3rd Washington Irving(1)
4th Edith Sodergran, Marguerite Duras, Andrei Tarkovsky, Remy de
Gourmont
5th Robert Bloch, Hugo Claus
6th Dan Andersson
7th William Wordsworth, Gabriela Mistral
8th Alfred Jarry
Deaths
1872 Samuel B Morse - developer of the electronic telegraph
1991 Grahame Greene
1992 Isaac Asimov
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6) Headline News from around the world
E-MAIL TRAFFIC PATTERNS SIGNAL WHO'S IN CHARGE
A new technique developed at Hewlett-Packard's research labs in Palo Alto
can quickly identify online communities and the key people in them. "If the
CIA or another intelligence agency has a lot of intercepted e-mail from
people suspected of being part of a criminal network, they could use the
technique to figure out who the leaders of the network might be," says
researcher Joshua Tyler. Tyler and his colleagues analyzed communications
patterns using the lab's log of nearly 200,000 internal e-mails sent by 485
employees over a couple of months. They plotted lines between people who
had exchanged at least 30 e-mails with each other, and found the grid
included 1,110 links between 367 people. The researchers then used a
computer algorithm that looks for critical links that form bridges between
separate groups, which revealed 66 communities within the lab. To identify
the leader in each community, they plotted the same network of e-mails
using a standard algorithm that tries to arrange the connections in the
least tangled way. This step identified the managers, who tended to cluster
in the middle. "This approach puts in the middle the people who have the
most diverse range of contacts in the organization -- and these tend to be
the leaders," says Tyler, who adds that the technique could be used to
identify the ringleaders in criminal or terrorist gangs. (New Scientist 27
Mar 2003)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993550
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INTERNET VS. RECORDING INDUSTRY
Media analyst Eric Garland of Big Champagne has told California lawmakers
that the growth of music file-sharing on the Internet is "fundamentally
unstoppable," because 61 million Americans and millions more worldwide are
already downloading music and only 9% of them think they're doing something
wrong. "We see only one trend. More people are downloading more copyrighted
material." Garland's advice for the recording industry is to embrace
digital distribution rather than institute lawsuits or education campaigns,
but such advice is not well-received by industry executives, who are
routinely urged by Internet enthusiasts to accommodate to technological
realities. Phil Corwin, a lobbyist for Internet music service Kazaa, told
the same group of state legislators: "The record business, in the digital
revolution, has been a day late and a dollar short." [A dollar may not be
the final figure.] The fight goes on. (AP/San Jose Mercury News 28 Mar 2003)
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/5502291.htm
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GROUPS OPPOSE STATE COPYRIGHT RESTRICTIONS
Critics of current copyright laws argue that some states are passing
legislation even more restrictive that the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act (DMCA) and are urging those states to soften their position. The
Association of Research Libraries, the American Association of Law
Libraries, and the American Library Association sent a letter last week
to lawmakers in Arkansas and Colorado rejecting proposed laws that
could "undermine the ability of libraries to provide important
information services." The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
is one of the supporters of the DMCA and state copyright laws.
According to the MPAA, states that have already passed copyright
legislation include Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Illinois, and
Michigan. The MPAA defends laws in those states as legitimate attempts
to curtail the piracy of copyrighted material.
ZDNet, 31 March 2003
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-994667.html
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BRITISH UNIVERSITIES FACE COPYRIGHT LAWSUITS
The British Phonographic Industry and its sister organization, the
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry, have sent a
letter to every university in Britain highlighting the problem of music
piracy on campuses and raising the specter of legal action against
universities that are complicit in such piracy. A spokesman for the two
groups said that turning a blind eye to such illegal activity on the
school's network sends students a message that conflicts with
universities' calling for honesty and understanding about plagiarism
in their academic work. Organizations representing universities and
faculty offered several responses. One group said the music industry
should help pay for filtering efforts on campuses. Another group said
that while universities do not condone piracy, they have better things
to do than snoop on network users.
Times Online, 28 March 2003
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-625793,00.html
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crunching and holding the fort last week. Mark for the beer and
chocolate (double newsletter week), Greg and Larry Wall. Michael is
still on holiday. Special thanks also to Robert Elms.
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