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The Revenge of Samuel Slater

The Revenge of Samuel SlaterTitle s/b England's Revenge ON Samuel Slater.Slater, after all, damaged England's most valuable export, cloth, by breaking international rules and building a mill with technology which he was not entitled to use.Now the US's most valuable export, IP, is being damaged by software which the English...

Tags: Samuel Slater, bandwidth, mill, Slater

Discussion threads 2006-02-10

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Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gaps

Rhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gapsRhode Island's novel approach to addressing budget gapsHooray for RI! I haven't heard of any energy crisis in RI. You can bet the naval base there would probably want to get on this.You knowif we actually built power plants this wouldn't...

Tags: Blackstone, mill, river, Blackstone River

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

How evil is China?

How evil is China?I would not call China Evil....So much as America is being very stupid.1) No one is in a uproar about their kids having lead in their toys. 2) Sending our computer components to be built in China and wonder why they have spyware on...

Tags: Chinese product

Discussion threads 2008-04-21

How evil is China?

Matt Asay has a headline today that's doubtless worth a click -- Microsoft and Novell seek to exonerate Chinese piracy. The news peg is that Microsoft and Novell extended their existing agreement on IP to China. They call it "an incremental investment in their relationship" aimed...

Tags: China, America, Matt Asay, Matt, Intellectual Property, Piracy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-21

Google on Markey net neutrality bill:let's stop the "gatekeepers"

Without mentioning Comcast's broadband Internet throttling by name, Google's Public Policy analyst and blogger Derek Slater has just made a post resoundingly in favor of the net neutrality legislation introduced this week by Congressmen Ed Markey and Chip Pickering: Today, Rep. Ed Markey and Chip...

Tags: Google Inc., Broadband, Net Neutrality, Broadband Policy, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Networking, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-14

Lawgarithms Links for 8/27/07

iPhone hacking meets the DMCA, new ways to owe money to the RIAA, bad music and its aftermath, and more — now playing in my Google Reader Starred Items:iPhone Unlocked; Legal Battle Looming?, from Ed FeltenUnlocking the iPhone could invite a lawsuit, from Computerworld Breaking News Is Unlocking Apple's iPhone...

Tags: Apple iPhone, RIAA, Lawgarithms, iPhone Hacking, Denise Howell

Blog posts 2007-08-27

SCC tells the mid-market identity story

The RSA conference always serves as one of the two or three windows that the identity community uses to launch new products the other two being Burton Groups Catalyst and our own Digital ID World conference. As such, the weeks leading up to RSA always feature a spate of new...

Tags: General, PMI Group, compliance, SCC

Blog posts 2007-01-29

EFF on Zune: Risk of DRM/DMCA checkmate no longer a risk. It's reality

By way of Cory Doctorow, comes a pointer to the Electronic Frontier Foundation's take on Microsoft's new Zune: a brand that has broken ranks with the Redmond-based company's previous digital rights management DRM strategy that attempted to establish an ecosystem of compatibility (under the name "PlaysForSure") between content...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., Digital Millenium, Digital Millenium Copyright Act, Microsoft Zune, digital-rights management

Blog posts 2006-09-18

Cal. bill to give students a balanced view of copyright

California students will get a reasonably balanced view of copyright law if a bill currently in the state Legislature is passed, Ars Technica reports. The original bill, AB 307, introduced by Rep. Ed Chavez, was pretty much dictated by Hollywood lawyers. It would have withheld technology grants to...

Tags: INTERNET, Ed Chavez, Electronic Frontier Foundation, curriculum

Blog posts 2006-08-03

Why DRM transparency is good for users and vendors alike

As I've written many many times, digital rights management technology (DRM, also known as C.R.A.P.: Read why or watch CRAP: The Movie) is nasty stuff that I'd just assume be without. In the course of trying to manage rights, the "R" in most DRM technologies now stands for...

Tags: Navio, digital-rights management, entertainment

Blog posts 2006-05-23

Apple Computer's assault on the practice of journalism...

I am a huge fan of Steve Jobs, Apple Computer's CEO. I wasn't much of a fan when he was Apple's self-styled visionary in the early 1980s, but since then he has proved himself many times over. Next Computer, Mr Jobs' venture after he left, and then returned as Apple's...

Tags: Mr Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.

Blog posts 2006-04-20

Apple vs. Me

Would you ever want to be on the business end of legal action from a company with US$9 billion in cash? What about being targeted for deletion by one of most powerful multi-national corporations in the world? What if a company with US$14 billion in revenue and 14,000 employees wanted...

Tags: Apple Computer Inc., First Amendment

Blog posts 2006-04-06

The Revenge of Samuel Slater

In the struggle between progress and law, the law always loses.This is because the advantages of progress are always compelling to someone, somewhere. Over 200 years ago England passed laws to keep the science of steam-powered cloth production from leaking out. An Englishman named Samuel Slater right defied those laws,...

Tags: BitTorrent

Blog posts 2006-02-10

Peter Jackson puts on 'Halo' for Hollywood

Peter Jackson puts on 'Halo' for HollywoodVideo Game to Movie CurseHas there ever been a movie based on a video game that was worth watching? And I don't mean worth watching for a 13 year old. I mean that actually had mass appeal.PerfectAfter watching Jackson's ridiculous adaptation of LOTR, It's...

Tags: Games, game, movie, Peter Jackson, Halo, video game

Discussion threads 2005-10-04