digital rights

A List Of Lists

December 28, 2009

Lizzy Caston and I were to write a mode d’emploi for air travel in this day and age of the ever-orange threat advisory.  A sample: Lady, please do your best not to wear four-inch-heeled slouch boots and every metal ring and bracelet in your collection before entering airport security.  The grimace on your face as [...]

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The Google Toilet

December 14, 2009

The quarterly technical and planning committee meetings of the Open Geospatial Consortium are held at interesting global locations without fail. Like Athens (Greece, not Georgia) in March, MIT’s Stata Center in June and Darmstadt, Germany in September 2009. I just returned from the December meeting which was held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California. [...]

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Like Asking A Peeping Tom To Install Your Window Blinds

December 12, 2009

There are days when the decisions make themselves.  Today is one of them.  I’m going to give myself an EFF-xkcd shirt for Christmas. Google CEO Eric Schmidt holds forth on online privacy in a CNBC special on, surprise, Google. I think judgment matters.  If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe [...]

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“An Optimal Return On Our Investment In Science”

November 11, 2009

In other words, get our little and big kids learning.  What are we waiting for?  An economic depression in which the most creative thing we can come up with is spending money on bread and circuses, casinos and throwback jerseys?  Wait. TechDailyDose | Top Scientists Urge Access To Research A group of Nobel Prize-winning scientists [...]

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Schadenfreude (Of The Much-Deserved Variety)

October 14, 2009

News items that make me point and laugh like Nelson Muntz: * International Kindle Crippled at Launch: No Web Access Outside U.S. (the reaction to this was more on the order of BWAHAHAAAAaaa *slap thigh*) * Judge Refuses to Punish Lawyer for Anti-RIAA Blogging * Orly Taitz Keeps Digging * What Up. Not much.  First [...]

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Quote Of The Day

May 15, 2009

“Some people just don’t get this new media thing, and cling to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other protections like someone cowering behind a triple locked door thinking that will solve the crime problem outside, thinking it will save their little corner of the music industry. It will not.” – Mark Folse of Toulouse [...]

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Not Buying The Kindle

May 14, 2009

As a supporter of Project Gutenberg‘s eBook philosophy, I refuse to purchase a device that operates solely in proprietary file format and has hinky public domain vs. copyright and ownership issues associated with it. Lately, the PG-forum arguments for and against the Kindle have turned into ones of readability; subjective terms such as “comfortable” and [...]

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Copyright Infringement Is Not Theft

April 20, 2009

Especially not when the governments-RIAA-MPAA-AAP-IFPI collusion to extend copyright long after the death of the author, with no intention of ever honoring the spirit of the public domain, is considered legitimate. Solidarity with Pirate Bay In other news, the Swedish Pirate Party gained 3000 members in 7 hours, while a new report states that the [...]

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Day 1061: Links For 2008-07-23

July 23, 2008

* Favre Allegedly Used Packer Cellphone To Call Vikings Nothing but forthcoming and cooperative with us, huh, Brett? You’re still under contract with the Packers and it is dimwit moves like this that make a whopping 200 people desire your return and relegate you to a simple link and not a whole post on this [...]

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Day 1031: Kid Rock Rocks Kids

June 23, 2008

Wired: Kid Rock Boycotts iTunes, Champions P2P Atlantic Records went to their label’s Kid Rock asking him to make a PSA against illegally downloading music. His response: “Wait a second, you’ve been stealing from the artists for years. Now you want me to stand up for you?” … “ITunes takes the money, the record company [...]

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