“Copyright enforcers should learn lessons from the war on spam”
Two of my favorite targets in a single (and pretty good) article — bonus! 🙂
Search results for copyright
“MPAA’s University wiretapping product taken down for violating copyright”
Oh, the irony!
SOPA and PIPA stopped — for now
Wow. I didn’t expect anything like what happened, and apparently neither did anyone else — including the MPAA. From the e-mail I received from FightForTheFuture.org: The MPAA (the lobby for big movie studios which created these terrible bills) was shocked and seemingly humbled. “‘This was a whole new different game all of a sudden,’ MPAA …
“Pirate Party takes two EuroParl seats!”
I have no objection to people getting compensation for their work. I’m happy to pay for value. But I find it nauseating that certain groups — who add no value to a product after its creation — think that they have the right to charge the public for it repeatedly and in perpetuity. There are …
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Blast from the Past
Yesterday was trash-pickup day for our street. Our trash collectors aren’t too careful, so we sometimes get pieces of wind-blown garbage lying around. While walking to our local store for some cat-related supplies, I saw such an item. It was a 5.25″ floppy disk labeled “Turbo C.” That’s C, not C++. The copyright date in …
“Dancing Baby v. Universal: Baby wins!”
The DMCA (the Draconian Media Clobbering Act… sorry, I mean the Digital Millennium Copyright Act) has been used for some pretty jaw-droppingly stupid things since it was passed. This is just one of them, but it’s an important one, because the court just told copyright holders that they will be punished if they demand that …
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Speaking of the DMCA…
What is it with Bev Oda, the Canadian minister in charge of copyright? Does she really think that people are so stupid that they don’t know that she’s taking cash from the entertainment companies she’s supposed to be regulating, even after it has been trumpeted all over Canadian radio and TV? On the other hand, …
“The AACS Debacle”
Like many geeks, I’ve been watching the progress of what BoingBoing is calling “the AACS Debacle” with interest over the last couple days. For those of you not familiar with it, here’s the executive summary: some guy, apparently irritated that he wasn’t allowed to play the next-generation Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs on his Linux machine, dug …