June 26, 2005 - July 02, 2005 Archive
June 30, 2005
Squabbling Over Pieces of the UK Online Music Pie
Online music stores and record labels fight over the licensing fees imposed by music publishers and composers, with the music stores arguing that they should get the same deal as radio stations.
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Would You Like Some Music Whilst Scrabbling to Discover if Your Software is Legal?
RealNetworks begins "aggressive search-term" campaign to win over those searching for Grokster -- perhaps unaware that the Supremes frowned on Grokster's similiar courting of Napster users.
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Posted at 09:53 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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The Other Kind of File Sharing
Local law officers will soon have access to the FBI database, with DEA and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms to come.
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Posted at 09:53 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Present Company Excluded
"A major victory for lawyers everywhere" -- Mark Cuban on the Grokster verdict.
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June 29, 2005
Don't Stop Grokkin'
Mike Godwin's must-read take on the Grokster decision.
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Posted at 02:01 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Search Engines Corrupt Our Youth
The GAO was asked to investigate access to porn on P2P networks (tough job). It suggests KaZaA is better than Google for filtering content.
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Posted at 12:40 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Teens Bypass School Filters; Threatened with Felony Charges
What's next -- arresting kids who sneak into the adult section of the library for trespassing?
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June 28, 2005
How Did "Mad Hot Ballroom" Survive the Copyright Cartel?
How documentary film makers have to edit 'round reality to avoid liability.
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Posted at 02:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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DRM Laundering
Strange thought experiments from the far side of lock-in file formats.
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Posted at 02:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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For the People's Eyes Only
The Center for Democracy and Technology has a cool project that makes the Congressional Research Service reports easily available to the people who paid for them -- you.
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Posted at 02:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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120GB Hardware Drive Encryption
Nice to see a secure storage system where the user still keeps the keys.
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Posted at 02:28 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Proposal for a Device in Which Money Is Shoveled into Point A, and Incinerated at Point B (Fig. 1)
GAO report points out the the patent office has spent over a billion dollars on their IT systems, with little to show for it.
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Subscribe Youaregoingtojail-l
Brad Templeton highlights worries that child email-protection laws may make trouble for list managers.
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