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  • Tor reports no increase in piracy after dropping DRM

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    Fantasy and Sci-fi publisher Tor says it has seen “no discernible increase in piracy” despite dropping Digital Rights Management (DRM) from its ebook range last year. DRM prevents the unauthorised copying of digital content such as ebooks, but also limits the user’s ability to legitimately move content between devices. Last April the UK and US…

  • BBC Three’s Him & Her to return for final series

    BBC Three’s Him & Her to return for final series

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    Him & Her, BBC Three’s sitcom about lazy twenty-something couple Steve (Russell Tovey) and Becky (Sarah Solemani), is to return for one final series. Channel boss Zai Bennett has confirmed the show’s fourth series will be its last, and will be entirely set during the wedding of Becky’s sister Laura and fiancé Paul. The show…

  • Dispatches reveals the secrets of your missing mail

    Dispatches reveals the secrets of your missing mail

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    Next time you’re dealing with a company insisting its couriers behave impeccably, push them in the direction of this Channel 4 press release.

  • One month left to respond to Ofcom’s 0800 and 0845 reforms

    One month left to respond to Ofcom’s 0800 and 0845 reforms

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    Consumers and interested parties have one month left in which to respond to to telecom regulator Ofcom’s plans to ensure greater transparency of charges for calling numbers starting 08, 09 and 118. As reported earlier this month, Ofcom says customers whose landline is provided by companies other than BT cannot always “easily tell how much…

  • Channel 5 snaps up Prisoner Cell Block H remake

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    Channel 5 has bought the UK rights to Wentworth, a reboot of cult Australian drama Prisoner Cell Block H. THe 10-part series will centre on Bea Smith (Danielle Cormack, Underbelly: Razor) and Franky Doyle (Nicole Da Silva, Rush), inmates in the Wentworth Correctional Centre. The seriesis described as a “graphic, edgy reboot” set in the…

  • Iron Man 3 scores big at UK box office

    Iron Man 3 scores big at UK box office

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    UK audiences have flocked to see Robert Downey Jr return for Iron Man’s latest adventure, spending more almost £14m on tickets over the film’s opening weekend. The third film in the franchise sees Tony Stark (Iron Man) coping with the events of Avengers Assemble and co-stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Sir Ben Kingsley, Rebecca Hall, Don Cheadle…