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One of my favorite performers on why piracy isn’t the horrible end-of-civilization thing Big Media would have you believe it is. #seb #Piracy #Copyright #Laws
Embedded Link MegaUpload Uh oh, he’s blogging. What happened? I wrote this thing on Twitter this morning about the MegaUpload shutdown, and it’s gotten some . . . → Read More: Jonathan Coulton on Megaupload, Piracy, and SOPA Companies ripping off small time artists that have gone viral seems to be increasing. H&M isn’t the first and certainly not the worst, but they’re learning quickly that the Internet doesn’t take kindly to such acts. If they’re smart, they’ll ink out a decent licensing agreement and then shout it from the rooftops. If they’re . . . → Read More: Companies ripping off small time artists that have gone viral seems to be increa… Actually, it demonstrates that the Senators in question aren't even familiar with the issue they're trying to legislate. How can you possibly craft and support good legislation on an issue you don't have a good understanding of? I doubt any of these Senators was aware he or she had violated copyright in the use of . . . → Read More: Senators pushing PIPA are pirates? That's unPOSSIBLE! Dave sums up the problems with SOPA/PIPA eloquently. It's a bad bill and it will cause no end of problems for everyone.#google+ #politics #SOPA #Copyright My consolidated nattering on SOPA and PIPA Here are my thoughts on SOPA and PIPA, consolidating about a dozen other posts I could have written today. Copyright is a cool . . . → Read More: Dave sums up the problems with SOPA/PIPA eloquently. It’s a… I've read the bill along with reports from legal analysts who at least appear to know what they're talking about and I definitely think it's going to be abused by the folks who want it most for everything they think they can get away with. Be that quasi-legitimate claims to full-on censorship of stuff they . . . → Read More: I trust Lamar Smith about as far as I could throw him It's nothing compared to what the MPAA, RIAA, and other media companies will do with SOPA and PIPA if they pass. Hell, they're already abusing the hell out of the DMCA take down rules and YouTube's automated infringement system. Imagine if they suddenly gained the ability to have any website anywhere yanked from the net . . . → Read More: The MPAA is crying about websites going dark being an abuse of power? It's hard to say how much of what he describes will come to pass, but it's clear that we're headed in that direction as evidenced by the copyright wars. This is something that anyone who cares about what they can and can't do with the computers and devices they own should be paying attention to. . . . → Read More: Cory Doctorow on the coming lockdown war It seems the McCain campaign isn’t happy with the folks at YouTube because they’ve taken down a good number of his campaign videos after being hit with DMCA takedown requests: The McCain campaign on Monday fired off a letter to YouTube complaining that the company had acted too quickly to take down McCain’s videos . . . → Read More: McCain campaign finds the DMCA, which McCain voted for, is bothersome. Update @ 4:15PM: Well that didn’t take long. Google contacted the folks at ArsTechnica.com saying the EULA is a mistake and will be corrected ASAP and the changes will be retroactive for folks who have already downloaded the software: Google’s Rebecca Ward, Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome, now tells Ars Technica that the company . . . → Read More: Google Chrome EULA grants Google a license to anything you create while using Chrome. [Updated!] Gotta love the MPAA where you are considered guilty and they don’t think they should have to prove it: The Motion Picture Association of America said Friday intellectual-property holders should have the right to collect damages, perhaps as much as $150,000 per copyright violation, without having to prove infringement. “Mandating such proof could thus have . . . → Read More: MPAA to court: “Proof? We don’ need no stinkin’ proof!” |
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