May 2010
45 posts
“We would also like to point out that there are no conflicting interests at stake...”
– Response of Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico and Paraguay to US proposal at WIPO open-consultations
Net neutrality is good for ISPs →
An article by Dave Schaeffer, Chief Executive Officer of Cogent Communications.
“The music is right there in the game [DJ Hero], and a legal collection would...”
– http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/05/dj-hero-soundtrack-the-quest-for-a-rip.ars
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“But if you dig a little deeper, the decision becomes a bit more disturbing,...”
– FCC gives content industry more control over your TV
“Hulu videos will inevitably find their way onto the Google TV platform when it...”
– Hulu on Android Foreshadows Google TV War
5 Insane File Sharing Panics from Before the... →
Did William Patry leave Google to join Cracked or something? Maybe Nimmer will start freelancing for Mad Magazine.
“So the wireless sector HHI is now at 2848, the agency says, which doesn’t...”
– AT&T, Verizon dominate wireless… Is it time to regulate?
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A computer program is writing great, original... →
To stump Cope, I presented him with the famous melody to the second movement of Beethoven’s C minor Sonata, the “Pathétique.” Could a computer really generate such a beautiful string of notes? Surely this was the product of Beethoven’s genius. Cope directed me to Mozart’s Piano Sonata 14, also in C minor. A nearly identical melody, in the same key, occurs three...
“So, perhaps the case can be made that rather than focusing on narrow exceptions...”
– Instead Of Better Defining Fair Use… Should We Define Unfair Use? | Techdirt
“The ARPANET with its packet switching approach to data communication had just...”
– Net neutrality: Old issues never die
Panera Bread Testing The 'Pay What You Want' Model... →
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“The government is putting authors’ rights, which are of course important, on the...”
– Victor Domingo, president of the Spanish Internet Users Association, on a proposed law in Spain that would allow a government commission to take down websites without a court order (via the NYT)
Why I Steal Movies… Even Ones I'm In - Peter... →
This is a great essay. I’m also posting it because The Peter Serafinowicz Show and Look Around You are hilarious.
“The court says “the following factors, taken together, establish that LW...”
– LimeWire Smacked Down for Inducing Copyright Infringement—Arista Records v. Lime Group
Two great recent episodes of the Econtalk podcast.
Steve Meyer on the Music Industry and the Internet.
Yochai Benkler on Net Neutrality, Competition, and the Future of the Internet.
These are also available through iTunes.
“Rosen lays out these reasons, saying that Wolfire doesn’t plan on doing...”
– Humble Bundle gives pirates what they want, gets ripped off
CEA issued the following statement regarding the...
We are disappointed in the Bureau’s Selectable Output Control decision effectively allowing any video copyright owner to unilaterally shut off video outputs on consumers’ televisions. We appreciate, however, that the waiver is limited to analog-only outputs, has a 90-day duration, and that the Commission will review all waivers that are implemented. Nonetheless, we are unsure when the FCC has...
For a Look at Why We Need to Beef Up Our... →
7 things people get wrong about the Internet and... →
Interesting piece, but I disagree with a lot of its premises. For instance, he writes that “Although you can get TV streamed over the Internet, as yet no remotely sustainable business model has emerged to make any real money off it.”
Well, Internet video isn’t going to look just like traditional TV. My wife streams TV shows from Netflix to our TV every night. Why...
Internet Filters Approved By Washington Supreme... →
“The plaintiffs include a Ferry County woman who wanted to do research on tobacco use by youth; a professional photographer blocked from using YouTube and from researching art galleries and health issues; and an Okanogan man unable to access his blog, as well as information relating to gun use by hunters.”
ISPs Hijacking Browser Functions, Continue Proud... →
They wonder why people want them to be dumb pipes, when this is what they bring to the table.
Breaking the Broadband Monopoly | municipal... →
A new report on munibroadband systems that shows the conventional wisdom that these systems “failed” is just plain wrong.
