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Larry Lessig at Stanford is a brilliant world authority on this.....but the interesting thing about the increasingly restrictive IP legislation is that it is becoming far easier to undermine than ever before - just about all audio visual protection is dead in the water......

Hmm .....Amatya Sen recently argued that no famine can occur in a democracy (observer.co.uk) which received some interesting critical analysis - particularly from an Indian acaddemic Vandana Shiva who pointed out that famine has returned to India despite democracy . Shiva attributed this to...