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RIAA Moves In on Digital Radio. Wired.

WASHINGTON — Digital radio broadcasts that bring CD-quality sound to the airwaves could lead to unfettered song copying if protections are not put in place, a recording-industry trade group warned on Friday.

Without copy protections, music fans could cherry-pick songs off the air and redistribute them over the Internet, further deepening the copyright woes of record labels, the Recording Industry Association of America said.

Maybe it’s time for RIAA to reconsider their business model instead of trying to kill off every technological advancement that might destroy their outdated distribution medthods. Just maybe.

Man 1 Horse 0. BBC

He completed the 22-mile course in two hours, five minutes, and 19 seconds…

…The first horse home was Kay Bee Jay, ridden by Zoe White, in a time of two hours, seven minutes, and 36 seconds.

Hmmm…

The closing line. BBC

And two candidates in Slough were forced to roll a dice to decide the outcome of the election after two recounts failed to split them. The Tory beat the independent.

Ermmm… democracy at work.

North Korea has hackers. Global Security

South Korea’s military intelligence agency is raising the specter of cyber attacks from North Korea even as the two countries enter high-level military talks to promote peace on the peninsula.

But according to foreign experts, although online terrorism from the North could pose a threat, Seoul’s assessment of the reclusive nation’s cyber warfare capability may be an overestimate.

John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, which maintains an online guide to North Korea’s military, said in an e-mail interview with The Korea Times that he would be surprised if the North did not operate a contingent of hackers.

“It is an obvious thing to do and is not that hard to do,” Pike said. “The North can build atomic bombs and long-range missiles. Computer hacking is easier than (making) an atomic bomb or a missile.”

He warned that South Korea is a good target for Pyongyang in cyberspace. “South Korea is among the world’s leading Internet countries, and so there are many computer networks the DPRK (North Korea) could hack,” Pike said.

North Korea can’t win; practically every South Korean male under the age of 20 can pull off a zerg rush while chanting “kekekekekekekekeke ^_^”.