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Reading List, July 2017

Cyrus Farivar, WinAMP woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself , in Ars Technica, 3 July 2017. [Online]: https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/07/winamp-how-greatest-mp3-player-undid-itself/ A fascinating tale of WinAMP, my favourite music player in the early 2000s, and how it was run into the ground by AOL. Mike Masnick, State dept. enlists Hollywood and its friends to start a fake Twitter fight over intellectual property , in Techdirt, 5 July 2017. [Online]: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170705/10241437723/state-dept-enlists-hollywood-friends-to-start-fake-twitter-fight-over-intellectual-property.shtml This article is just so crazy that I find it very hard to believe. If it indeed turns out to be a fake, I may actually delete it from this list. Apparently, the State department wants to start a fake Twitter feud to advance MPAA and RIAA propaganda, and they thought that reaching out to Stanford Law School professors and students was a good idea. Well, turns out it is