One of the most significant recommendations that the government plans to implement is the legalisation of "format shifting" - where users rip content from CDs or DVDs for their own personal use.
We wanted to go to Tasmania to check this out, but when we found out science reporter and author David Quammen had already been there, we decided to rip it from the headlines.
Incidentally, the name is a rip-off from Prairie Home Companion, with Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.
Finally, the software giant announced Vimeo as its new "publish partner, " letting you upload your Gadget Cribs rip-offs from either program directly to the site.
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Butting and shaking, the animal, covered with shaggy black wool, looks as if he is either going to rip the tree from the ground or sacrifice a piece of his head.
Short of moving to France, you can just rip your music from CDs, avoiding the DRM issue in the first place (or if you just love DRM, be prepared to carry extra batteries).
In "Jesus or a Gun, " for example, Scallions sings: But now everything's trying to drag me down, but I'll rip the sky from the ground, but tell me now, who's my saving one, Jesus or a gun.
Mr Osborne is creating a new watchdog that Which? says should protect consumers from "rip-off" charges.
Armed with these vintage-looking rip-offs, from January 2006 to August 2009, Haggard marketed them as vintage, collectible originals on eBay.
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"It's not anyone's intent ever to rip a child away from a loving home, " said Todd Hembree, the Tahlequah, Oklahoma-based tribe's attorney general.
An inquest has heard about frantic efforts to try and save a mother who drowned while trying to rescue one of her sons from a rip current.
Every three months, he said, rip out the best stories from Upside and glue them into one "all-star" issue.
Backed by complex mathematical models, they believed the path to economic growth and efficiency lay in letting the free market rip, with minimal interference from the state.
" He deputizes himself as a tour guide to the human psyche, promising to find the triggers of sadness wherever they might lurk: "I will adventure to guess as near as I can, and rip them all up, from the first to the last, general and particular, to every species, that so they may be better described.
Sounds like a cheesy rip off of the cheesy Escape from New York?
As can be seen from the popularity of rip-off artists like Whole Foods markets, organic foods are popular.
Twitter is incredibly smart to systematically copy Instagram and rip out the foundation of value from that company and from Facebook over time.
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If it wasn't FSU tailback Chris Thompson zipping down the sideline to tire out the Clemson D en route to 103 yards and two scores, it was sophomore back James Wilder Jr. (not, as Rip might guess, a return from retirement by James Wilder Sr.) pounding them into submission late with two TDs of his own.
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It would have been nice to have learned more about the dispute involving the now somewhat old-fashioned telephone means of order entry but, alas, Rip Van Winkle appears to have arisen from his slumber too late.
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Britain's position in its economic cycle flatters his efforts, but the fact is that, far from letting spending and borrowing rip, like previous Labour chancellors, Mr Brown has kept a tighter grip than the Tories ever managed.
Here's something that opponents of restrictive DRM implementations aren't going to be too happy with: ZDNet is reporting that new copy-protection software for DVD publishers from a company called ProtectDisc not only makes it difficult to rip movies that you've purchased -- no surprise there -- but actually prevents discs from playing in a Windows PC at all.
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Rocks cascade down from the ceiling, and chains rip across the stage as Kratos fights Hades, god of the Underworld.
The idea of new laws to protect consumers from unscrupulous businessmen creating a "rip off Britain" appears a classic Labour move.
This means you're always relying on wireless connectivity (more on that in a sec) but also that you've always got a battery ready to go, and it's admittedly pretty neat to rip out that battery (like a clip from a gun) and slide a fresh one in.
As the pressure builds up in these bubbles, they expand and rip the thin layer of silicon above them away from the rest of the wafer.
There is also an undeniable adrenaline rush from knowing that the only thing protecting you from a fierce predator that could effortlessly rip your head off is the guidance and know-how of the guy standing next to you.
Returning from a fractious Euro summit in Rome, she let rip against her European counterparts, refusing to countenance any increase in the power of the European Community and outraging many colleagues.
But as companies emerge from recession it seems that many of them have decided to rip up their old recruitment policies.
The omission endangers occupants' lower limbs, as foot wells rip off and expose feet and legs to car parts slamming into them from the front.
They have to rip up all the good work of the last 12 months and start again from scratch - and there has to be a huge question mark over whether they can bounce back in those circumstances.
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