Like Michael Arrington, I now ban all Associated Press stories from all my blogs. That includes Tech Side Up, Inside Online Video, and The Mike Abundo Effect. I have absolutely no tolerance for copyright trolls who want to control their content beyond the extent allowed by law. Their right to protect their content ends where […]
Sorry, Frankie. What you propose is a crime.
See, this is why we need patent reform. Apparently, flying by the moon is now illegal.
Last month, SES Americom launched commercial geostationary satellite AMC-14. Unfortunately, they screwed up, and now the thing will fall to Earth within days. They could have stabilized its orbit with a lunar flyby, […]
TorrentSpy closing down was pretty depressing, but here’s a ray of hope.
Torrent.is has won in court over the Association of film rights-holder in Iceland (SMÁÍS)
The case is a study in classic big business bullying. Like similar cases in the US, SMÁÍS complained to the court about alleged copyright infringement activities on the BitTorrent site, and […]
See, this is part of the reason Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor is so enduringly popular. Unlike Metallica, he knows what the Hell’s going on.
At first, Reznor considered putting his new album Ghosts I-IV out on a pay-what-you-like basis, a la Radiohead’s In Rainbows. Fortunately, Creative Commons founder Lawrence Lessig convinced Reznor that attribution would […]
Some people just can’t handle the giant global copy machine that is the Internet. Such people are just erasing themselves from history — and annoying the rest of us in the process.
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Not only will the RIAA take your house away, they’ll financially ruin single mothers from ethnic minorities. Despite Judge Michael J. Davis preventing the RIAA from turning his courtroom into their soapbox, the terrorists in suits still had their way.
A Minnesota woman must pay $220,000 to six of the top music labels after a federal […]
The RIAA has long spewed bullshit numbers claiming that piracy is destroying the world economy and making your kids beg on the street. Judge Michael J. Davis, however, won’t have any of their bullshit in his courtroom. Yesterday, he barred RIAA president Cary Sherman from testifying in Capitol Records’ piracy case against Jammie Thomas. […]
Remember how DMCA stool pigeon MediaDefender got nine months of internal emails leaked, revealing their deceptive practices? Now they’re trying to scare P2P site owners into getting rid of the evidence. Their lawyers are sending out badly-written nastygrams.
Apparently, their copyright lawyer has no idea how to write a proper DMCA takedown notice. “Despite us being […]
Businesses that know how to create value in the freedom of the emerging Earth need not fear that freedom. It’s about time those smart businesses fought back against fearful corporate copyright trolls.
The Computer and Communications Industry Association, which counts among its members the likes of Google and Yahoo, has filed a complaint with the FTC […]
A note to the RIAA: undercutting is not copyright infringement. Don’t go copyright trolling just because you can’t offer better prices. A Russian court has acquitted Denis Kvasov, former head of defunct online music store AllOfMP3, in a copyright infringement suit filed by EMI, Universal, and Time Warner.
“The prosecution did not succeed in presenting persuasive […]
Technology is a cult. Let\'s monetize cats!
Written by Mike Abundo [email] for b5media.
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