“Danger Mouse’s EMI-killed CD will be released as a blank CD-R, just add download”
Fascinating artistic response to a legal spat. It’ll be interesting seeing how it plays out, too.
Archive of posts filed under the Law category.
Entries about laws and legal matters.
“Obama Makes New Credit Card Rules Official”
Nice! I don’t understand how it got past the credit card companies’ lobbyists though. Unless even they can’t convince politicians to look the other way anymore…
“French Reject ‘Three-Strikes’ Piracy Measure”
Uh-oh, looks like french fries are about to become “freedom fries” again. 😉
“Scammer shuffles Apple out of 9,000 iPods”
Sometimes you’ve just got to ask yourself what some would-be criminal “mastermind” was thinking. This is one of them. Nine thousand?! I’m the first to agree with the phrase “if it’s worth doing, it’s worth overdoing,” but even I have limits. And the stupid-stick apparently whacked Apple here too — did no one there notice …
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Graffiti Quote
Just saw a wonderfully-quotable phrase in an old Paul Graham essay: Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.
“Unauthorized iPhone app stores emerging”
It’ll be interesting to see how Apple responds to this. My bet: they’ll come out with lawyers a-blazin’. 😉 Though whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not is another story.
“The ‘Broken Windows’ Theory of Crimefighting”
I’ve always heard that crime causes run-down neighborhoods, but it appears that, at least in part, it works the other way too.
“Maine Man Tries to Build Dirty Bomb, No One Cares”
Pardon my French, but what the f***?!?! Not about the attempt itself — horrifying as that is — but why the hell are we only hearing about it now?! Why didn’t someone start screaming bloody murder about it the moment the information was made available, a month ago?!
The DMCA Bites Back
I love seeing politicians being caught in their own traps.
“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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