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How tech is transforming the way the world works, learns and plays

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world.

Tech Life discovers and explains the ways technology is changing our lives, wherever we are in the world. We meet the people with bright ideas for rethinking the way we work, learn and play, and get hands-on with the products they dream up. We hold tech giants to account for their huge power to affect our lives, and ask who wins, and who loses, in the technology transformation. Tech Life is your guide to a future being made, and remade, at lightning speed in front of our eyes.

Tech Life: Crackdown on Piracy

04/04/2014

Crackdown on Piracy

BBC World Service - Tech Life, Crackdown on Piracy

The music industry's efforts to tackle piracy and how some claim they're wrongly targeted

How record companies are redoubling efforts to tackle piracy - but some people claim they're being wrongly targeted. And the tech of high frequency trading on the stock market.

How the music industry is redoubling efforts to tackle piracy - but some people claim they're being wrongly targeted. 

Amazon unveils its TV streaming player - will it make a big splash or be a damp squib? And - the tech of high frequency trading on the stock market. 

Presented by Rory Cellan-Jones, with special guest Dr Jo Twist of The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment, and Leo Kelion and Dave Lee from the BBC Online technology desk.

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