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Prohibition 2.0

Prohibition 2.0Version skippingAt least version 3.0, perhaps higher.The "War on Drugs" was at least version 2.0, and you could count the fiasco over the 55 mph speed limit as another.This is why it's a bad idea......to let lobbyists write the laws. If the average citizen comes to the conclusion...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, Prohibition 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-07-21

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Updated: Restraining order against RealDVD stands

Update: BetaNews reports the injunction is in place until Nov. 17. And they point out the impact of an extended injunction can be substantial. In Real's case, however, this is just one more product; not having it doesn't fundamentally interrupt the business model. Or does it? I recall when the...

Tags: Rights-management, Violation, Copy Protection, Robert Moore, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

TRO hearing today on RealDVD

Federal Judge Marilyn Patel will hear arguments today on whether Real should be temporarily restrained from selling its RealDVD copying software. The software has been unavailable since Friday, when the Hollywood studios won an emergency halt on sales, a move that Real claims caused them "irreparable harm." ...

Tags: DVD, RealDVD, Real, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

How to read your FBI file

As part of the occasional series Life in post-Constitutional America I'm pleased to offer a brief primer on How to read your FBI file. It isn't as easy as you'd think, since the FBI has failed several times to create a modern data management system - which may not be...

Tags: FBI, File, Mistakes, Federal Government, Government, Data Management, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2008-10-01

(Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)

(Photos: The Ford Model T turns 100)one correctionThe model T first ran on alcohol. John Rockefeller was making kerosene for heating and lighting, and gasoline was a useless byproduct. He was literally dumping it into a river at night.Then he realized there could be a huge market for this stuff....

Tags: Ford Model T, alcohol, Ford Motor Co., photograph

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Reuters sues university over open-source citation extension

Zotero, a Firefox plug-in, looks like an amazing tool for academic and legal writing, what with "automatic citation capture" from webpages, formatted citation export and integration with WordPress. Developed by George Mason University, the tool has already been adopted by 100 major institutions. So who doesn't like it?...

Tags: Thomson Reuters Corp., Thomson Corp., GMU, Productivity, Open Source, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-09-29

Compromise on the drinking age debate

Compromise on the drinking age debateThe Land of Misfit toysA brief conpendium of former Rice people would have to include Howard Hughes, Carrie Bradshaw and Matt Wilson, all of whom left after their freshman year.Among our graduates are John Doerr, writers William Broyles and Bill Goyen, game designer Steve Jackson...

Tags: Food & Beverage, drinking age, beverage

Discussion threads 2008-08-20

Microsoft unveils Application Server License Mobility change to ease some virtualization headaches

Microsoft has quietly unveiled its much anticipated licensing change to ease virtualization: Application Server License Mobility. The licensing plan, quietly launched in a licensing brief on the company web site tonight, now allows customers to freely move VMs, virtual workloads -- and their respective licenses -- across multiple servers...

Tags: Virtualization, License, Server Farm, Application Server, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Application Server License Mobility Plan, Servers, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-08-18

Prohibition 2.0

Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...

Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-07-21

Open source should support Apple over Psystar

Open source should support Apple over PsystarYou're offBSD and GPL are licensesEULA is a contractRE: Open source should support Apple over PsystarDon't get into this argument. "License not Contract" is a magical phrase used by Open Source 'backers' who want to rationalize the idea that using someone's code without permission...

Tags: EULA, open source, Apple Inc., GPL, Joomla

Discussion threads 2008-07-17

Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?

Canada has a new copyright law that limits consumers' liability for copyright infringement but exposes them to thousands of dollars in penalties for circumventing anti-copying technology, the Globe and Mail reports. The existing copyright law, passed in 1997, exposes consumers to a maximum of $20,000 in statutory...

Tags: Law, Copyright Law, DMCA, Canada, E-books, Personal Technology, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-13

Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship

Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorshipThis is nonsense ...Any company wanting to do business anywhere in the world has to abide by the laws of that nation. We cannot imposed the First Amendment on the Chinese Government any more than they can imposed censorship on us. ...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, censorship

Discussion threads 2008-05-02

Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?

Can Apple stop Pystar from selling Mac clone?Assumptions"Assuming they pay Apple for every copy they sell..."D'ya think this may be the little hitch in your argument? By what mechanism exactly do you see Apple accepting money from a company that is aggressively violating their license? This improbability can only occur...

Tags: Apple Mac OS X, Operating systems, Pystar, Apple Inc., Mac-clone

Discussion threads 2008-04-15

Psystar: Apple's terms violate U.S. monopoly laws

Psystar, a Miami-based OEM which is now offering OS X on generic PC hardware, claims that Apple's restrictive licensing terms violates U.S. monopoly laws. Whoa, bold claim there. Better have some deep pockets if the company wants to take the fight to court. In an interview with...

Tags: EULA, Apple Inc., Psystar, Monopoly Law, Apple Mac OS X, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-04-15

Vista virtualization: The bigger picture

As Mary Jo Foley noted earlier this week, Microsoft has belatedly gotten around to relaxing its licensing rules so that customers can install any edition of Windows Vista in a virtual machine, including the less expensive Home Basic and Home Premium flavors. I haven't seen anyone document...

Tags: License Agreement, Virtualization, License, OEM, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., Difference, Hardware, Virtual Machine, Ultimate, Hardware System, VM, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Operating Systems, Software, Security, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-01-23

Should AT

Should ATChild PornographyI think this a great step forward to get rid of the scumbags who store, profit and share Child Pornography on the Internet. Any company who is willing to take on that responsibility, reporting their findings with the Authorities, supporting with their technology should be highly rewarded and...

Tags: ATT, AT&T Corp., child pornography

Discussion threads 2008-01-17

NJ bans sex offenders from the Internet

When politicians can come out against sex offenders in some way, that's always a good thing for the press officer. The latest nice-idea-in-concept-but-how-do-you-enforce-it law comes from New Jersey, which joins Nevada and Florida in barring certain sex offenders from using the Internet, AP reports. Offenders who contacted...

Tags: Monitoring, Computer, Sex Offender, Internet, Social Networking, Productivity, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2007-12-28

Watch these FTC privacy principles and expect a skirmish

Along with its approval of Google's DoubleClick acquisition Thursday the Federal Trade Commission outlined some core privacy principles that may have a bigger impact than the merger over time. While Google's acquisition of DoubleClick is getting all of the attention (Techmeme, blog post and news story) these...

Tags: Advertisement, Privacy, FTC, Proposal, News, Mergers & Acquisitions, Security, Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-12-20

EU, U.S. strike compensation deal in gambling fight

EU, U.S. strike compensation deal in gambling fightBut when the other shoe drops ...Let's be clear what this is about. Congress snuck the anti-gambling provision last year into a "motherhood-and-apple-pie" bill providing funding to help secure the nation's ports against terrorism. They snuck the gambling amendment in at the...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, compensation deal, tax, U.S. Congress, compensation

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Big Telco wants to ream you with "deep packet inspection"

You may experience mild discomfort The extremist "free market" crowd wants to toss hundreds of years of common and public law in the toilet so a few near-monopolies can maximize their profits and minimize your choices. Should you care? Only if you use the Internet. "We...

Tags: Network, Comcast Corp., Telecommunications Company, Cell Phone, Information, Nothing, Internet, Telecom & Utilities, Corporate Governance, Cellular Phones, Federal Government, Telecommunications, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Robin Harris

Blog posts 2007-12-06