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- Bill Gates: "People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then"
- Bill Gates: "People should just buy a CD and rip it. You are legal then"Very good reason whyCopyright law as written has many exceptions to when you can and can't copy. These exceptions are not binary and require that the end reason for the copy be taken into consideration.For...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Bill Gates, CD, copyrighted work, exclusive right, digital-rights management
- Discussion threads 2006-12-16
- File-swapping gets supercharged on student network
- File-swapping gets supercharged on student networkDeja Vu all over again?[i]"Internet2 is for research. It's not for downloading music," said Marc Ray, a senior computer support specialist at Florida State University. He's still evaluating the program, he said. "The fact is the network cost a lot of money, and downloading games...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), success story, Internet, RIAA, copyrighted work, file-swapping
- Discussion threads 2004-04-29
- Antipiracy law heads for EU vote
- Antipiracy law heads for EU voteEnough already, Europe is 3rd world living at bestEurope is going down hill, heck they are lucky to have indoor plumbing....The long arm of the RIAA NT...The right targets-mostly"organized piracy and counterfeiting in the European Union"At least they are aiming for REAL pirates who duplicate...
- Tags: Piracy, role here, antipiracy, copyrighted work
- Discussion threads 2004-02-19
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- News Corp. prepares to destroy more online value
- Finally Good PointsYou may have wanted to mention that comcast wanted to buy out 51 percent and then charge. Maybe they are delaying the inevitable but a reverse scenario? Due to sites like Hulu and other I and other have not paid for cable or satellite for over 3 years....
- Tags: OpenOffice, Piracy, Blogging, Network technology, Hulu, News Corp.
- Discussion threads 2009-10-26
- WSJ challenges NFL's ridiculous policy by live-blogging game
- NFL is Not AloneThe SEC sent out a similar message banning twitter, blogging, cellphone videos etc from football games. Good luck enforcing that in a stadium filled with 90,000 mostly drunk Florida and Georgia fans. Won't be a problem in Arkansas though. :)link http://mashable.com/2009/08/17/sec-new-media-policy/Sorry but you've got...
- Tags: Games, NFL, game
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- Free the Orphans: Are we being played for fools in Google Books play?
- Give me a BreakGoogle paid to digitize those books. Google paid to setup the storage and bandwidth infrastructure to host the books, and google made an agreement with the authors to be able to publish those books. If anyone else would like to do the same thing they...
- Tags: Google Inc., agreement, orphan
- Discussion threads 2009-09-23
- Justice Dept. devastates Google Books settlement, as the parties rush to the back rooms
- As long as it doesn't "belong" to GoogleHow about, let Google spend the time and money and then turn everything over to the Library of Congress or possibly the Smithsonian, etc. so that anyone can access it freely.Bet Google would not care for that idea much. After all, they...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Google Inc., government
- Discussion threads 2009-09-21
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Tags: COMPANIES, Google Inc., copyright law
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Bad ethics in the wild: Twitter spamming and site stealing
- Interesting......a guy who has no problem violating copyrights complaining about a lack of ethics.Carl RapsonSPAM on Twitter!!! Say it isn't so!!Why is this worthy of a ZDNET blog entry. Is your next entry going to be about how you hate to get those EMail's that say "You've Won $15,000,000" or...
- Tags: Spam, E-mail, Twitter Inc., Twitter spamming, BAD ETHICS, spamming
- Discussion threads 2009-09-02
- Vindications: ah, the week that was
- Well you realy dont do yourself any favours.any moments of clarity you may have are lost in the sea of anti "wintel" blog rage. Maybe if you were more objective and took comments less personal then you may find life better. na, ah doesn't does I?Find me...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, SCO Group Inc.
- Discussion threads 2009-08-29
- Google Books sued by a pig, cat and dog
- LosersThis just underlines how pathetic these lawsuit-hungry companies are in hoping to cash in on what Google has created. They couldn't come up with a business model to monetize these works so they sue someone who has figured it out.Anti-capitalism at its best.4 legs good; 2 legs betterRight, Amazon?Bunch of...
- Tags: Strategy, Litigation, KARMA, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., Archive.org, Google Book
- Discussion threads 2009-08-21
- UK faces file-sharing crackdown
- Thieves that steal copyrighted...material have ruined P2P for legitimate users. Fines are obviously not enough and perhaps it is time to move to jail time. I'm not even sure warnings are appropriate anymore. everyone has been warned enough. Downloading copyrighted material is stealing and jail time is what most thieves...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), file-sharing crackdown, file-sharing
- Discussion threads 2009-08-17
- Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood business model
- RE: Court upholds RealDVD injunction; supports outdated laws and Hollywood Just shows you who the government actually works for.So what's new? [NT].broken systemWe have a broken judicial system that repeatedly favors the rich and the powerful at the expense of the citizens.Judge acknowledges system is brokenNo mavericks in the court,....
- Tags: Strategy, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, business model, agreement, MPAA, DVD
- Discussion threads 2009-08-12
- Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes
- Screw it!Let's just pull the friggin' plug.I'm so tired of this crap. Really, I am.I kinda feel the same way.By the time the lawyers, big corporations, and the politicians get down with the Internet, it won't be worth the powder to blow it to Hell. It was originally designed...
- Tags: Channel management, INTERNET, Web
- Discussion threads 2009-08-07
- Is Web image theft a problem? Solution providers say yes
- I got into an interesting debate this week with a PR guy who was pitching a service that's trying to curb the illegal use of copyrighted images on the Web. The service, called Vivozoom, is offering a subscription and payment system, along with guarantees that the images from the site...
- Tags: Web, Channel Management, Marketing, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- Judge changes her mind: Tenenbaum is liable
- Judge changes her mind: Tenenbaum is liableIn non-legal terms: "He's screwed"."Don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine."I suspect......Tenenbaum is playing "martyr" here, hoping that public opinion will put pressure on the courts or at least the jury. And it could work; there are plenty of people...
- Tags: Tenenbaum
- Discussion threads 2009-07-31
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistake
- Jeff Bezos offers apology for Orwellian mistakePerfect! The reason I will NEVER buy, use, or recommend a Kindle......or its equivalent, in easy-to-swallow, poison-pill form.Thanks so much for this story.Huh?Why wrong?If you as the end consumer, buy stolen goods, you don't get to keep them!So I'm guessing you are protesting the...
- Tags: E-books, Viruses and worms, Jeff Bezos, Orwellian, Amazon.com Inc., refund
- Discussion threads 2009-07-27
- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for educationHave the kindles linked to the grade not the student.The way to get around this (not the Amazon eating homework, but the reuse DRM issue) is to have the Kindles for a specific grade. All ninth graders have the same Kindles...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Internet Connectivity, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., homework, education
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
- The phrase "Amazon ate my homework" may certainly have been uttered on more than one occasion since the New York Times reported on Amazon's deletion of specific editions of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 from Kindle e-book readers (and no, the irony wasn't lost on anybody). Unless you...
- Tags: Education, Digital-rights Management, Student, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books
- Amazon uses 1984 to free e-booksDangerous gambleThey'll get harmonization. But likely to the US level through ACTARE: Amazon uses 1984 to free e-books"In this case the monopoly is copyright, which extends practically to infinity in the U.S., thanks to the Walt Disney Co., but is held to a reasonable length...
- Tags: Corporate communications, E-books, probation, e-book, video, Amazon.com Inc., monitor, software
- Discussion threads 2009-07-19
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