When the International Trade Committee in the European Parliament went to vote for or against ACTA, there was a huge poster on the door breaking about half the rules in the (very long) book, urging the committee to vote in favor of ACTA. That poster has now been…
I presented my story at TEDx Observer in London recently, and the video from the event has come online. This was the first time I was asked to tell my story, rather than talking about the pirate ideas.
After a significant amount of sweat, I knew what to say. (More conferences are already asking for this presentation, or variations on it, by the way.) I think it came out quite well for a 15-minute presentation:
On March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users…
Little by little our freedoms are being taken away in the good ole US of A, especially our freedom of speech. The Government is slowly chipping away our right to freedom of information provided by the internet. The age of information sharing is going to be a thing of the past if we don't do something to halt these idiots from stealing the only tool that gains us the key that unlocks the truth and gives it a vehicle to be spread far and near. ~Tara…
Not that I'm a frequent reader of the Huffington Post, but every now and then there is a good article and a nugget of info that is relative to Destroying the New World Order.
Right now there is a powerful group of Senators from both sides of the paradigm who are trying to expand the Governments power to control the Internet......censorship on steroids.
The COICA or Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, is a bill right out of the pages of "1984."
For the last hundred years, rightsholders have fretted about everything from the player piano to the VCR to digital TV to Napster. Here are those objections, in Big Content's own words.
The Scottish star's manager has criticised MySpace and Warner Music for not allowing the singer to stream A Girl Like You, claiming he didn't own the copyright
Sean Michaels guardian.co.uk
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Edwyn Collins with his wife and manager Grace Maxwell
Blur and Radiohead are among a host of bands calling on the Government to abandon proposals to cut off the internet connections of people who illegally download music.
There is a fascinating debate raging about who owns the news -- or more precisely, who owns which parts of a news story. The AP kicked it off in earnest last April when Chairman Dean Singleton channeled his inner Howard Beale and announced the AP would no longer "stand by and watch others walk off with our work . . . . We are mad as hell, and we are not going to take it any more." Just a few days ago, the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard posted a confidential AP… Continue
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Recently a respected judge from New York, Judge Richard Posner, has suggested a ban on interweb hyperlinks in order to save the floundering newspaper industry.
Experts at UC Berkely were quick to point out that Judge Posner seems to be mega illiterate when it comes to… Continue
First tool ban is here! A new law was just signed in New York that requires blueprint blocking technology on every CNC machine, laser cutter, lathe and 3D pr...