As CNNMoney noted, this isn't the only front on which the entertainment vs. tech war is being waged.

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Most concerning to me is the fact that this kind of high-tech war often takes place away from the public eye.

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Read the glowing press clips and you'd think that Google has an insurmountable edge in the war for tech talent.

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Take the Teufelsberg eavesdropping station, a ghostly hi-tech cathedral of the cold war, perched on a hill-top in western Berlin.

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We still have a lot of trade restrictions on high-tech exports that are actually carryovers from the Cold War.

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As the Inside Out programme discovers tonight, there is a high-tech means of identifying stricken trees using equipment originally designed for checking war zones for chemical weapons.

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In the aftermath of another world war, the city is turned into a fantastic high-tech slum that invites comparison with the science-fiction movie Blade Runner.

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The wearable motherboard, as it is called, was originally developed at Georgia Tech's School of Textile and Fiber Engineering for use in a war zone.

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Tech pundits like to frame any sort of mobile or digital competition as a war between devices and brands.

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The tech industry is rife with stories of platforms that had superior technology but lost the war in the field.

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