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RE: Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented |
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12:03 pm EST, Feb 23, 2003 |
Jeremy wrote: ] ... kids aren't interested in music anymore; "it's about
] gaming and PlayStation." I got the same perspective from talking about this question with some of the IT people at a record label that I work for. In the 70's you had nothing to do but sit in your room, listen to records, and do LSD. In this decade there are all kinds of things to do, even if you don't leave your house. Music is just background noise for whatever it is that you're really doing. Its not the focus anymore. RE: Twilight of the CD? Not if It Can Be Reinvented |
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Fox Trot and the War on Technology |
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11:09 pm EST, Feb 4, 2003 |
This is funny as hell. I love the closeup of the VCR in the third frame. If Disney did redo the Pirates of the Caribbean ride to have animatronic portrayals of P2P users and overseas DVD duplication labs, I would make the trip to see it. Thats my idea of entertainment. Link from boingboing.net. Fox Trot and the War on Technology |
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Hey, you--the unindicted federal felon |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
10:38 pm EST, Jan 27, 2003 |
"If you've ever used a peer-to-peer network and swapped copyrighted files, chances are pretty good you're guilty of a federal felony. It doesn't matter if you've forsworn Napster, uninstalled Kazaa and now are eagerly padding the record industry's bottom line by snapping up $15.99 CDs by the cartload. Be warned--you're what prosecutors like to think of as an unindicted federal felon. I'm not joking. A obscure law called the No Electronic Theft (NET) Act that former U.S. President Bill Clinton signed in 1997 makes peer-to-peer (P2P) pirates liable for $250,000 in fines and subject to prison terms of up to three years. (You may want to read it, since you'll likely be hearing more about it soon.)" Hey, you--the unindicted federal felon |
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Economist.com | Copyrights |
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3:24 pm EST, Jan 23, 2003 |
] To reward those who can attract a paying audience, and
] the firms that support them, much shorter copyrights
] would be enough. The 14-year term of the original
] 18th-century British and American copyright laws,
] renewable once, might be a good place to start. The economist presents a radical copyright proposal. Economist.com | Copyrights |
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Patently outrageous? SBC claims patent on framelike browsing - Computerworld |
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11:17 pm EST, Jan 22, 2003 |
] SBC Intellectual Property President Harlie Frost said the
] patent claims are "related to frames" before referring
] more questions to SBC's public relations representatives. Computerworld's says the rumors are true. SBC is actually claiming that most of the web sites on the Internet are in violation of a patent they have. This patent covers navigation bars like the one to the left of the text you are reading now. I don't think the courts will uphold this... We shall see... Patently outrageous? SBC claims patent on framelike browsing - Computerworld |
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RIAA chief to step down - Tech News - CNET.com |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
10:03 pm EST, Jan 22, 2003 |
] Hillary Rosen said Wednesday she would step down as head of
] the organization at the end of 2003, after a controversial
] five years at its helm. !!! RIAA chief to step down - Tech News - CNET.com |
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SBC Communications claims they own Patent on Internal links and Includes |
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12:10 pm EST, Jan 20, 2003 |
] We received a 40 page package from SBC Intellectual
] Property today informing us that our web site which has
] links on the left side that go to other web pages within
] the site but does not lose the left side navigation
] links was in violation of their Structured Document
] Browser Patent. SBC weighs in with another bad patent. SBC Communications claims they own Patent on Internal links and Includes |
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1:15 pm EST, Jan 18, 2003 |
] We have proposed a tiny tax designed to move unused
] copyrighted work into the public domain. Lessig VS. Disney, Round 2, Fight! I would take this one step further then Lessig. I have long thought that it ought to be illegal for people to claim a copyright or patent on a work they are not selling/publishing. If the purpose is to encourage the development and distribution of ideas, then your ideas ought to be published. Copyright law should not enable people to keep ideas OUT of the public's reach. This runs counter to the stated purpose of IP. The Eric Eldred Act |
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2:23 pm EST, Jan 17, 2003 |
] Public Knowledge is a public-interest advocacy
] organization dedicated to fortifying and defending a
] vibrant "information commons" - the shared information
] resources and cultural assets that we own as a people. A very slick new public domain oriented political group. Public Knowledge |
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Salon.com Technology | After the copyright smackdown: What next? |
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1:32 pm EST, Jan 17, 2003 |
] The Eldred decision, in the words of University of Buffalo
] law professor Shubha Gosh, "deconstitutionalizes" copyright,
] pushing it father into the realm of policy and power battles
] and away from the principles that have anchored the system
] for two centuries. More fallout from Eldred. This call has been raised several times in the last few months. The Constitution does not protect us here. The only way we can win is in the voting booth. However, I cynically beleive that the voting booth will only come into play after this decision has cost us a lot more then the public domain... It will come into play only after the significance of our culture has been overshadowed by those who operate outside of this system. Salon.com Technology | After the copyright smackdown: What next? |
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