1 month ago
wearehugh : Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record | Politics and Law - CNET News.com - "Biden was one of only four U.S. senators invited to a champagne reception in celebration of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hosted by the MPAA's Jack Valenti, the RIAA, and the Business Software Alliance."
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2 month ago
nelson : Hulu search: "Olympics" - Awesome! NBC's video site has all sorts of video for the Olympics; mostly history lessons about the 1980 boycott of Moscow
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gleuschk : Digital Domain - First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. - NYTimes.com - Hm: "Whether students will view online subscriptions as a helpful adjunct to the printed textbook or as a self-aggrandizing ploy by publishers remains to be seen." Really? Care to make a small wager?
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3 month ago
Linkorama : StealThisWiki - Steal This Wiki is a collaborative ground up rewrite based on Abbie Hoffman's seminal work, "Steal This Book". If you're feeling nostalgic, you can download the original book in PDF form.
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3 month ago
wearehugh : Wendy’s Blog: Legal Tags » Scrabbling for Legal Rationalism: No Copyright for Games
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3 month ago
wearehugh : Digital Natives » Google Book Search, Orphan Works and the Public Domain
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4 month ago
deusx : Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic - "When music fans can say, ‘I have all the music from 1950-2010, do you want a copy?’ - what kind of business models will be viable in such a reality?"
mmb : Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic - Revenge of the Sneakernet | Blog | Futurismic via deusx’s favorites on del.icio.us [via]
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4 month ago
gleuschk : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - interesting
deusx : Radiohead to Prince: Unblock 'Creep' cover videos: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance - "Prince fans have organized to urge him to relent in his legal fights to control images and photographs of himself."
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5 month ago
Andy Baio : San Diego GOP chairman co-founded warez group Fairlight - funny, guys like that usually end up in tech, not politics [via]
nelson : GOP / Fairlight - Founder of one of the most famous pirate groups is now a Republican Party official in california
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6 month ago
nelson : How to not steal software - Simple essay about how to avoid being a pirate
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7 month ago
Andy Baio : Muxtape - S3-hosted service for 12-song virtual mix tapes, like this one [via]
cobra libre : Muxtape #
deusx : Muxtape - "By uploading a song you agree that you have permission to let Muxtape use it."
nelson : Muxtape - Quick and easy hosting of an MP3 mixtape
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8 month ago
veen : "Better than free" by Kevin Kelly - "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."
Jeremy Zawodny : The Technium - The Technium: Kevin Kelly has astute things to say about a world in which many things are free and abundant... how do you make money?
43folders : Kevin Kelly -- The Technium - "When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."
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9 month ago
adamrg : Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop - The Amen Break, and its use in modern funk and rap.
Ethan Marcotte : YouTube explains "The Amen Break" to you - ∞
Greg Storey : History of the Amen Break. - I used it to make coffee this morning.
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9 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Further commentary on the RIAA’s asshattery - Arr oh eff ell. ∞
deusx : Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology - Publishing 2.0 - "The maxim goes that new technologies don’t kill off old media — radio didn’t kill newspapers, TV didn’t kill radio, etc. But it’s not clear this maxim will hold true in the digital age"
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Resolution:License update - Wikimedia Foundation - Whereas the Board seeks to respond responsibly to longstanding community concerns about issues of compatibility between the GNU Free Documentation License and the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license, as well as to continue longstanding traditions of strong
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11 month ago
cameron : Creative Commons Licenses Are Permanent — Except on Flickr - This has always bothered me about Flickr photo licensing
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11 month ago
WillPate : Canadian Police Tolerates File Sharing For Personal Use - “Piracy for personal use is no longer targeted,” Noël St-Hilaire, head of copyright theft investigations of the Canadian police, said in an interview with Le Devoir. “It is too easy to copy these days and we do not know how to stop it,” he added.
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11 month ago
nelson : c|net photo stealing? - Flickr photo used on c|net news page without attribution or permission
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11 month ago
nelson : c|net photo response - Sounds like cnet takes this seriously. Good.
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12 month ago
jcgregorio : public.resource.org - open source access to government documents
factoryjoe : public.resource.org - A source of government data! (Or something!) Saved By: Chris Messina | View Details | Give Thanks Tags: government, data
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12 month ago
gleuschk : Atiyah, Macdonald. Introduction to commutative algebra (1969)(K)(T)(137s).djvu - some russian site scanned in Atiyah-Macdonald
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veen : Sony BMG Lawyer Claims That Ripping Your Own CDs Is Stealing - "Making "a copy" of a purchased song is just "a nice way of saying 'steals just one copy'," she said."
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13 month ago
Eric Meyer : On ringtones and copyrights - A link for all the people who keep ignorantly complaining about ringtones in iTunes. If you're going to complain, people, do it knowledgeably! [via John] [via]
Rod Begbie : Macworld: On ringtones and copyrights - Good summary of what Apple would be up against even if they *wanted* to let you turn your MP3s into ringtones for free. [via] #
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13 month ago
Richard Rutter : Prince is a twat - “Prince feels very strongly that people should remember his concerts as they were, not as some grainy mobile phone footage” .
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13 month ago
Andy Baio : Chief of the U.S. Copyright Office doesn't own a computer - how can a self-proclaimed luddite make policy decisions involving copyright in the digital age? [via]
deusx : Pattern Recognition » Blog Archive » Technophobia or payola? - "Oh wait, IT DOES SAY THAT THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR COPYRIGHT IN THE US DOESN’T OWN A COMPUTER."
Rod Begbie : Technophobia or payola? - "The person responsible for administering Copyright law in the US doesn't own a computer." This explains a *lot*. [via] #
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