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Canadian Politicians Demand DMCA 195

Posted by kdawson from the couldn't-blame-canada-then dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Michael Geist is reporting that a Canadian parliamentary committee has demanded that the government establish a Canadian DMCA. The demand, which comes in a study on counterfeiting and piracy (PDF) released on Wednesday night, recommends ratification of the WIPO Internet treaties, increasing damage awards for copyright infringement, creating new offenses for selling modification devices, and encouraging prosecutors to seek jail time for piracy violations."

Feed Engadget: Fruit-picking robots closer to reality (engadget.com)

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It looks like Vision Robotics' would-be fleet of agriculture robots is getting a little closer to reality, with the previous crude 2D sketches of 'em now replaced with slightly less crude 3D models (among other developments). Last we heard from the company, its scout robot was still a long ways from hitting the farm, but Wired News is now reporting that Vision expects to have a prototype of it ready sometime next year, with the larger harvester bot expected to follow two or three years after that. As before, the company plans to have the scout robots plot out the best fruit-picking route, which the harvester would then follow, grabbing hard to reach fruit with the utmost delicacy -- no doubt picking up a few humans' jobs along the way.

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Submission + - Subcommittee Stops Human Mars Mission Spending (nasa.gov)

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An anonymous reader writes: Last weeks House Appropriations Subcommittee for Commerce, Justice, and Science FY08 budget markup would prevent work on programs devoted to human missions to Mars. According to a House Appropriations Committee press release, the markup language states that NASA cannot pursue "development or demonstration activity related exclusively to Human Exploration of Mars. NASA has too much on its plate already, and the President is welcome to include adequate funding for the Human Mars Initiative in a budget amendment or subsequent year funding requests." The Mars Society is already leading an effort to get the language removed.

Feed Engadget: Apple responds to EU's concerns over iTunes pricing (engadget.com)

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It looks like Apple waited 'till the last minute to respond to the EU's latest demand for answers in its longstanding investigation into the company's iTunes pricing practices, coming in just under an already extended midnight deadline yesterday. Of course, nobody's saying exactly what Apple's response entailed, with the EU only going so far as to say that they are "carefully" studying it. The EU's prime concern here is Apple's practice of preventing users in one country from downloading music intended for another which, in some cases, results in some users paying more for music than others. No word on what'll happen next, although we somehow doubt this latest response will suddenly put the EU at ease.

[Via MacNN]

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Feed Engadget: iriver W10 revealed on teaser site (engadget.com)

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We'd probably be more inclined to gripe about iriver stringing us along like this -- five gadgets, five days, hardly any hard facts -- if there wasn't so much sexy to the devices and photographs the DAP manufacturer is tossing up every 24 hours or so. Today's gadget is the iriver W10, a slim little touchscreen number we got to play with at CES, which seems to swipe some of the iPhone's interface ideas for touchscreen VoIP dialing, while still sticking with those WPS (WiFi positioning system) and PDA / e-book / PMP features we heard about before. We wish we had more to tell you, like price or a release date, but two things are certain: iriver seems bent on swiping every gadget dollar we've ever stashed, and is singlehandedly keeping the hand modelling industry in business.

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