About a week or so ago, a video called “Richter Scales” was put out and then soon after taken down because of take down notices. Unfortunately, the take down notice from photographer, Lane Hartwell, seems to be a bullying tactic. Read the post from the link (which still had the video in it too) for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
Is Comcast the first evil of many?
Well, here goes the first company, Comcast with the first barage against any sense of internet neutrality or fairness. According to all accounts, Comcast has been killing packets of BitTorrent traffic. At this point they are unwilling to discuss their actions too. It’s obvious that the actions are not going over well with the internet [...]
OS X 10.5 Leopard
I’ve ordered my copy of OS X 10.5 Leopard for my two Mac’s (a MacPro and an older non-intel Powerbook). I’m very excited about it. It’s not earth shattering or anything, I think but they look like they have a bunch of cool things in it. A new updated Mail.app, a new Dock, an updated [...]
RIAA get a victory
I know I’m reporting on this very late. In Virgin v Thomas, the RIAA wins a verdict of $222,000 against Jammie Thomas, a single Mom who makes under $40,000/year for 24 songs with a value of $.99/each for a total real world value of $23.76. As an outsider, it is nearly unfathomable at how a [...]
Violate copyright? $150,000. Violate free speech? $0.
I’ve taken this headline directly from a Hyperorg post on penalties that come from the DMCA. This post talks about penalties for both infringers – meaning those who post material that is in violation of copyright and have a cease and desist against them but fail to comply – and those who post a cease [...]
RIAA thinks it can do anything?!?!
When I first heard this via a podcast (I heard it on several and can’t remember which one I heard it on first otherwise I would give some attribution), I just couldn’t believe the audacity of the RIAA. More over, remember that the RIAA is made up of companies like EMI, Sony, and such and [...]
Some Stats and Analysis
I read a lot of blogs regularly. One of them is Freakonomics which is an interesting blog about economics and related geekery about statistics, economics, data and such. It’s written in an easy to understand style rather than a boring text book style. I came across this post on Vanishing Mailboxes, Underperforming Schools, and Global [...]
DMCA, Copyright run amuck!
As, I’ve mentioned in the past, our country and perhaps the world is letting corporations decide how democracies should determine laws. Democracies are supposed to be governing systems run by people where as corporations are not people though in some fake sense, they have some legal rights that are similar. The differences though are what [...]
MPAA and RIAA – I’ve been quiet…
…yes, I’ve been quiet. Not sure why so here is some interesting bits. First. The MPAA is out to portray Canada as the big bad of movie and TV piracy. Not sure why but here is a site to the rescue: Techdirt is showing why Canada is not really a pirate den. Of course as [...]
Wow! The Earth Moved … Apple’s Job’s wants to remove DRM!
Check out Steve Job’s Thoughts on Music where he pontificates greatly on how music, downloaded music, iPod, iTunes, and DRM have affected the music industry. It’s a very interesting read. Here is one of the key statements from Steve: So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits [...]
Events, Funerals, Effects on Us
I’m the sort of guy that is sad to see when a marriage breaks up for any reason.? I know that sometimes there is no way to heal a? marriage (though I imagine it’s because one party or the other isn’t really committed to healing the marriage) but still it’s sad to see something that [...]
Movie Studios are getting greedy
Here is a great write about about a Financial Times article talking about the Movie Studios discussing the need to increase Apple’s Fair Play restrictions and add a “tax” on each iPod sales. Here are some of my favorites from the article: Note: this quote is from the Financial Times article as is from the [...]
MPAA wants to regulate your Home Theater
Check out this post on how the MPAA wants to regulate all Home Theaters. It’s another example of how greed in corporations has gotten totally out of hand. “Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn’t give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That’s a violation of [...]
Patents on Tax Reduction Strategies a Problem
A post over on Slashdot briefly talks about something that I have never heard about but shows another coruption in the Intellectual Property (copyright, patent) law that exists in our country.? The article is about Patents on Tax Reduction Strategies a Problem. Here is the gist of this particular issue according to this article: EsonLinji [...]
EFF with status on DRM
Check out this article that the EFF put together discussing that current status of DRM especially as it relates to TV and DVR devices.? It is very detailed. Here are some of my favorite bits from it: In the “Plug and Play” proceedings, the FCC required14 all cable companies to make available CableCARDs,15 which enable [...]