When copyright prevents preservation, does the US dominate the net, BitTorrent's chief exec interviewed and more

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• Preserving a copy of the future
  The British Library and the recording industry are arguing about proposals to extend the lifespan of copyright. Wendy M Grossman looks at the issues behind the row.
• Can an American judge take a British company offline?
  The fallout from a legal battle in the US has sparked talk of a constitutional crisis for the net.
• At last, the price is right for access to our laws
  Free Our Data: The Guardian has found out that citizens will not be charged for access to the Statute Law Database. (More at the Free Our Data blog.)
• What a WoW of a way to get to know someone
  Aleks Krotoski: I met someone new yesterday. This is a significant event; my writing and research centre around digital phenomena, and I spend most of my time in my attic home office with my head plugged into a laptop, my eyes scrolling until they roll and my trigger finger tapping like a Morse coder on ephedrine.
• Games
  Scarface | Stronghold: Legends | FIFA '07
• Newly Asked Questions
  • Why isn't there a text message version of 999?
    Imagine the situation: you've been kidnapped, but you've still got access to a mobile phone. Making a call is out of the question - that would just alert your abductor, so you try to send a text message. That's exactly what happened last month to 14-year-old American Elizabeth Shoaf, who was rescued after stealing her kidnapper's phone and sending a message to her mother.
  • What content does Google censor outside China?
    Outside China, Google blocks only websites with child abuse images and certain values from its search of ranges of numbers.
• We really need some discontent creators
  Victor Keegan: When two twenty-somethings posted a home-made video on YouTube last week they initially attracted more than 1.3m views, but they didn't earn a cent for their efforts. This didn't matter to them because the two in question, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, owned the company and had just sold it to Google for $1.65bn.
• Technobile
  Linda Jones: A supermaket checkout that isn't childproof and can't scan bananas? Sorry, but it's back to the "10 items only" queue for me.
• Preparing themselves for a torrent of users
  Ashwin Navin is president and chief executive of BitTorrent, whose peer-to-peer protocol transfers huge files efficiently across the net. He is leading its move onto a commercial footing by content deals.
• The NHS IT programme is putting the accent on innovation
  Michael Cross: Congratulations to the NHS for facing down Accenture. The refusal at the end of last month to renegotiate contracts worth £2bn that were less than three years into their 10-year life led to the consultancy giant's decision to resign as a prime contractor from the NHS National Programme for IT.
• Now you can go shopping with your mobile phone
  Forget about the Oyster card - soon you'll be able to travel on the Tube using your phone as a ticket.
• GPL backers agree to disagree
  A new version of its overarching licence has opened a split between free and open source software.
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• Newsbytes
  Bin raiding reveals risk | BT is switched on | Chairs for gamers | White goods, in black | Another day, another Treo