Mediagazer: Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright (Cory Doctorow/Boing Boing)

1:25 PM ET, March 14, 2010

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Jon / CyberJournalist.net:

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Alissa Krinsky / TVNewser:

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Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:

Leaked UK record industry memo sets out plans for breaking copyright — In this leaked, six-page email, Richard Mollet, the Director of Public Affairs for the British Phonographic Institute (the UK's record-industry lobbyists), sets out the BPI's strategy for ramming through the Digital Economy Bill …

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Brian X. Chen / Gadget Lab:

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Globe and Mail:

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Ernst Poulsen / Online:

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