I’m thinking that negotiating a secret treaty that will strip rights from internet users to pacify movie studios is a pretty good way to make sure that it’s eventually rejected by the American people.
Archive for the ‘copyright’ Category
If the law is a secret, do you have to obey it?
Posted in copyright, dissent, economics, ethics, first sale doctrine, free speech, internet, media, politics, technology on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
is it legal to make backup copies of your DVDs?
Posted in contracts, copyright, economics, fair use, first sale doctrine, free (or not) software, media, property, technology on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of those questions that has bothered me ever since the DeCSS thing went down way back in 2001. The crux of the problem is this: the movie industry wants to sell you a DVD like it’s a physical object, and then use technology to restrict your use as though you have [...]
That’s Not How The Internet Works, Part II
Posted in advertising, copyright, dissent, economics, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, internet, media, public domain on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, a judge in California issued an order to remove the DNS listing for the Wikileaks server. Wikileaks is a public internet site that functions on the wiki model, where any person can post content. Wikileaks purported to specialize in hosting incriminating documents that could do damage to their owners if they became public [...]
When Xenu Sees This, He’s Going To Be Pissed
Posted in copyright, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, politics, private press, property, technology, tv, tagged cults, fishman affidavit, OTIII, religion, scientology, Xenu on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The kids at Digg have noticed that someone posted a huge collection of Scientology documents on the web. And from digg, someone posted a torrent of the file to PirateBay. As I suggested last week, this is the obvious and natural consequence of drawing attention to that silly Tom Cruise video- people will yank the [...]
Xenu Made Me Do It
Posted in copyright, dissent, economics, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, internet, tagged copyright infringment, cults, fishman affidavit, religion, scientology, tom cruise is a total nutjob on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Someone should remind those Scientologist nutjobs: that’s just not how the internet works. While the CoS is one of the very very few organizations that have successfully forced posts to be removed from slashdot, they have not been able to keep their secret (and totally hilarious) creation mythology off the internet.
And you would think they [...]
Similarities
Posted in civil procedure, copyright, criminal law, dissent, economics, ethics, fair use, internet, technology, tagged groklaw, riaa, SCOX on January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This kind of double-speak is exactly what we saw from SCOX in 2003 and 2004. And look how well that worked out for them. Note to observers: when the lies that a company is telling reporters are different from the lies it’s telling to the court, that might be a signal the business is in [...]
Lyrical
Posted in copyright, dissent, economics, ethics, free speech, internet, media, politics, tagged Hillary on January 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Much of what the Rude Pundit writes is uncouth, scatalogical, borderline obscene. Which makes it so much more moving when he puts up a post like this one.
[V]oters have realized they don’t have to cast their lot in with her. The forced march to the altar with Hillary Clinton has been halted. As much as [...]
