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This month we examine the Democracy Player and Gshare file sharing. We also round up the latest Debian News.

TV has achieved enormous audience penetration because it makes no demands on the user. Turning on a TV set is unlikely to be a challenge for most viewers. The problem is that broadcasting a TV program is well beyond the technical, financial, and legal means of a private person; in other words, the medium relies on a heavily biased hierarchy. The good news is that today’s broadband Internet connections give private persons and small organizations the ability to deliver their own television-style content to private households.