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June 17th, 2008

Ban AP from Your Blogs!

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 […]

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April 11th, 2008

Satellite Junked Over Stupid Patent

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, […]

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March 28th, 2008

Iceland Rules Torrent Files Not Copyrighted

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 […]

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March 7th, 2008

Trent Reznor Sells Out Creative Commons Album

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 […]

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March 6th, 2008

Copyright Trolls are Party Poopers

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.
Tags: comics, funny, IP, Joy of Tech

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