Here is a post on the Cato Institute coming out with a studing on how the DCMA is bad for innovation and competition. So is our government about protecting people about protecting institutions? Obviously that is rhetorical in that the government has recently and maybe always been about protecting the interest of the large corporations [...]
Posts Tagged ‘News’
Super-hero is public domain, right?
Here is a bit from my hobby past over at Boing Boing regarding Marvel and DC trying to steal the word super-hero from the public domain. This just blows me away at the arrogance of companies and their lawyers. I grew up loving comic books, primarily from Marvel and DC, and super-heroes but this word [...]
MPAA/RIAA out to hurt us
Here is something crazy from Boing Boing on the MPAA/RIAA. Here is my favorite excerpt: In order to protect their ability to deploy this dangerous DRM, they want the Copyright Office to withhold from users permission to uninstall DRM software that actually does threaten critical infrastructure and endanger lives. These guys are selfish, insane and [...]
Home State
I come from Kentucky so while I don’t really follow the politics there I found this interesting. Also, since I know that some of my cousins, uncles, aunts (there could be a lot out there) may occasionally read this I figured I would post this. Anyway, here is a post on Judicial Ethics Complaint Over [...]
Yahoo on DRM
Here is something that I’m not sure anyone expected. This is a post about a Yahoo exec telling the music industry execs that they should sell their music without DRM. According to the post: Yahoo Music chief Dave Goldberg raised eyebrows Thursday at the Music 2.0 conference in Los Angeles with a proposal rarely heard [...]
Terry Gilliam on Piracy
I’ve actually come across this news story in many places but here is a post over at Hacking Netflix: Terry Gilliam on Piracy. Here is a some quotes from Terry: ?It’s hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I’m not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven’t been sympathetic [...]
Copyright Authority denounces Congresses extension of Copyright
Cory, the every vigilant, over at Boing Boing has a post about the Register of Copyright head denouncing the extension to Copyright by Congress. Here is her quote: ?We’ve certainly lengthened the term [of copyright] perhaps — I won’t even say perhaps — too long a term. I think it is too long. I think [...]
Bush asks for more teachers in Science and Math
I know I’m late to this (I’ve been busy – I’ll make a post about it in a bit) but in President Bush’s state of the Union, he asked for more teachers in advanced Science and Math so that we can maintain and increase our competitiveness in the global marketplace. Does anyone else find this [...]
Canadian music giant funds battle against RIAA
I’ve mentioned in past posts that it is exciting to see Artists join the fight against the RIAA but now we have a new contestant on the side of real justice and this may really be exciting. Canada’s biggest music record label is helping a family sued by the Recording Industry Association of American (RIAA)) [...]
Analog Hole Bill Would Impose a Secret Law
Congress is scary sometimes. Right now they are considering a bill that would require technologies to be imposed on analog transfer methods to prevent illegal copying. Or at least, that is what they would like you and me to believe. What they really want to do since they have effectively shut down all fair use [...]
Another Call to Action
OK, the EFF needs our help. We need to get out there and stop the next effort by Hollywood to re-instate the already failed Broadcast Flag. Please go to EFF Action site and send a comment to your representative to stop this action. Remember, that Hollywood wants to stop you as a user from doing [...]
David Byrne: boycott DRM
Cory over at Boing Boing has a post on David Byrne wanting to boycott DRM. Here is David’s own words: So, first they start off suing their customers, and now they are maliciously making it hard for their customers to even listen to music, and they will cripple your music and media player to boot. [...]
Copyright as incentive
Joe over at A Typical Joe talked about copyrights in a recent post. My favorite bit was this quote he pointed out from Lawrence Lessig: Copyright is about creating incentives. Incentives are prospective. No matter what even the US Congress does, it will not give Elvis any more incentive to create in 1954. So whatever [...]
Interesting Views on the Stock Market
I love to read Mark Cuban at the Blog Maverick where he always has some interesting and usually some very well thought out opinions. He often discusses topics that I relate to so it is one of my favorite rss feeds too. His most recent feed is regarding how the stock market is a very [...]
A Normally Conservative Source Suggests Impeachment
There has been a lot of discussions in the blogs regarding the spying on American citizens on American soil by their own American government – as there should be. The appearances (facts are still to be learned) that the Bush administration has knowingly violated existing laws to spy on American citizens in order to try [...]