Cory Doctorow on Keurig’s recent DRM-related news: I think Keurig might just be that stupid, greedy company. The reason they’re adding “DRM” to their coffee…
Category: Politics & Law
Two recent headlines showing the utter preposterousness of automated DMCA takedown notices: HarperCollins Accuses Apple of eBook Piracy Due to so many news outlets reporting…
https://vimeo.com/85155619 01/26/2014: Edward Snowden chose Germany’s ARD to make his first television interview since he blew the whistle on NSA’s global dragnet and illegal surveillance.…
In the U.S. roughly half a million people have been sued for sharing copyrighted files in recent years, but filing of mass-lawsuits is not getting…
You’ll have a hard time finding a copyright monopoly maximalist who insists that public libraries should be banned. This would be political suicide; instead, they…
By allowing limited use of copyrighted material for things like criticism, review, commentary, parody, or just personal non-commercial use, fair use has a widespread and…
In an alliance that stretches all the political clichés about “strange bedfellows,” librarians and civil libertarians are on the same side as gun activists and…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9CrkhTM5Fks From Stellar Wind to PRISM, Boundless Informant to EvilOlive, the NSA spying programs are shrouded in secrecy and rubber-stamped by secret opinions from a…
A federal court today [December 31, 2013] dismissed a lawsuit arguing that the government should not be able to search and copy people’s laptops, cell…
You can dismiss pirates as just being greedy and surely able to pay if they wanted, just as you could dismiss the colonist tea drinkers…