Copyfightthe politics of IPWho Pays MediaDefender to Disrupt Peer to Peer Networks (Alan Wexelblat)- May 30, 2008 Could it be Say it with me. That'd be... The Cartel. OK, so I'm not about to start a new career as a singer-songwriter. Which is probably good since I'd probably be foolish enough to give away my own recordings of my own performances for free and if I used BitTorrent for that then I could be the one getting DoSed. But that's in the hypothetical future. Here in the real present, it's a company called Revision 3. This company uses BitTorrent to distribute its own high-quality digital shows....http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/05/30/who_pays_mediadefender_to_disrupt_peer_to... Did Microsoft (over)Implement the Broadcast Flag (Alan Wexelblat)- May 23, 2008 Sherman, set the wayback machine to 2005! No, I'm not talking about the Internet Archive's Wayback machine. I'm talking about traveling back in time to late 2005 when the 'net was buzzing - angrily - about a Cartel proposal to require DRM to be embedded in every broadcast signal. The end of 'free' TV No more time-shifting allowed You remember that. In the end, the Cartel got half a pie. There's a flag, but the FCC explicitly stated that it wasn't supposed to prevent home recording. Even...http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/05/23/did_microsoft_overimplement_the_broadcast... Does the RIAA Have Legal Legs (Alan Wexelblat)- May 14, 2008 I don't blog much about the minutae of the cascade of digital music-related lawsuits in part because there are people who obsessively blog these things and I've lost patience with it over the years. One place that hasn't lost patience and generally does a very good job with the details is Recording Industry vs The People. Yesterday they published an entry that caught my eye because it goes to the heart of something I've been wanting to see for a while: someone is trying to kick the legs out..http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/05/14/does_the_riaa_have_legal_legs.php Help Cory Help Others (Alan Wexelblat)- May 5, 2008 Cory Doctorow has structured an interesting...something around his book Little Brother. I don't know what to call this - it's part charity, part pay-for-value-received, part experiment. The idea is that Cory gives away this book - it's online for free. But there are people (true fans, maybe) who want to donate to Cory in return for the value they receive with this book. Cory doesn't want direct donations, not least because he doesn't want to cut his publishers out of the loop. In the...http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/05/05/help_cory_help_others.php |