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No one from Shyftr has contacted me in response to my emailed requests to remove my feed from their site. It seems they care as little about customer service as they care about copyright. I emailed them on Saturday afternoon and asked them to remove my feed within 48 hours. That deadline is now up, [...]
» Go to this postSome cockamamie site that calls itself Shyftr has launched recently, and they’re into stealing people’s content. If you look around at their site, they’re couching their actions in nice language and calling it a place where people can read their favorite feeds and discuss them. I call it outright theft and wonder why their site [...]
» Go to this postTotally Geeky - The $14,000 iPod dock doubles as a dining table http://tinyurl.com/2lxd83 #
Geeky Mods - The LED Origami Cube Lamp http://tinyurl.com/2syx3d #
Fun Gadgets - The Condiment Gun http://tinyurl.com/33xw54 #
The Negative Saving Rate and the Age of Easy Credit http://tinyurl.com/2pcxdr #
Ingrid Betancourt Needs Help http://tinyurl.com/2jox2x #
Apple Sends TV Season Pass Subscribers Refunds for Programs Lost [...]
It looks like the Zooomr we knew is pretty much done for. A few months ago, I wrote that I was taking a break from Zooomr. The more I stayed away, the more clearly I could think about it, and the more I realized what a colossal waste of my time it was to get [...]
» Go to this postFor the moment, this is a rhetorical question. I’ve been re-thinking the way I publish my photos online in view of the recent and very prominent theft of Rebekka Gušleifsdóttir’s photos from Flickr. Call me naive, but I really believed, and still would like to believe, that people will wish to stay legal and pay [...]
» Go to this postTechdirt has a great post on this, as well as Dr. Michael Geist. Apparently Canadian musicians like the Barenaked Ladies, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan have stood up and said they do not agree with the record industry, and that they don’t want to sue their fans, nor impose DRM schemes on them. This is [...]
» Go to this postI find this unbelievable, yet Congress seems poised to pass another revision of the DMCA, expanding the reach of this already-controversial bill. It only goes to show the power that special-interest groups have in Washington.
For example, under this new law, if Sony’s rootkit malware were removed by anti-virus software, Sony would have the right to [...]
This is funny, but in a very sad and surreal sort of way. The RIAA has now filed suit against a family that doesn’t even own a computer. (!) They maintain the family shared songs illegally online, and they even published a list of those songs. I have to wonder how they shared the songs… [...]
» Go to this postUnbelievable! How low can these people sink? Suing a minor?! Here’s the link, an excerpt is enclosed below:
From Boing Boing: “Cory Doctorow: A judge in Michigan has thrown out a case where the RIAA attempted to sue a small child for file-sharing, after failing in its attempt to prosecute the child’s mother. The recording industry [...]
Mike from TechDirt has a great post with background on the RIAA vs. MP3.com lawsuit, and why MP3.com never appealed. Recommended reading for those concerned with DRM and the RIAA’s well known (and injust) legal hardballing. Here is the link.
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This is just wrong… If you buy this, Toshiba will force you to use the HDMI output to get high-definition video for DVDs that have copy-protection instructions in them. The HDMI output includes hardware-enabled copy protection. From Gadget Review:
“From the HD-A1 manual according to the ManRoom: “HD DVD and DVD video disc creators have the [...]
From Techdirt:
“The FCC’s purpose is supposed to be about regulating the scarce resource (yes, this is up for debate, according to some) that is wireless spectrum. However, over the years, they’ve repeatedly worked to go beyond that basic charter, sometimes leading to them getting slapped down by those who remember what the group’s purpose is. [...]
