DigitalConsumer Newsnews about copyright and intellectual propertyBill Gates- January 7, 2005 Via Boing Boing, Bill Gates compares the Creative Commons to Communists: There are fewer communists in the world today than there were. There are some new modern-day sort of communists who want to get rid of the incentive for musicians and moviemakers and software makers under various guises. They dont think that those incentives should exist.http://weblog.foopee.org/archives/2005/01/06// Your DVD player is obsolete- January 7, 2005 New DRM Scheme Could Make Current DVD Players Obsolete: Hewlett-Packard and Philips said Wednesday that they have developed a content-protection system for DVDs, designed to protect users from burning &8220;protected&8221; DTV broadcasts. The encryption system will be built into next-generation DVD players as well as media. It seems ridiculous that the &8220;needs&8221; of a sports franchise are allowed to cripple everyone&8217;s media players: For example, the system is designed to...http://weblog.foopee.org/archives/2005/01/06/your-dvd-player-is-obsolete/ More good work from the EFF- January 6, 2005 Music Industry Must Respect Privacy of Filesharers: The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision today that will stop entertainment corporations from gaining access to the names of people using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks unless the companies file lawsuits against them and furnish actual evidence of copyright infringement.http://weblog.foopee.org/archives/2005/01/05/more-good-work-from-the-eff/ Son of DVD copy protection- January 5, 2005 New copy protection for HD DVDs: Critics of the technology say it is bound to fail in achieving its most important objectiveblocking wholesale pirating of DVDsand it may irritate consumers if the promised in-home distribution isn&8217;t quickly forthcoming and easy to use. The AACS project &8220;doesn&8217;t make very much sense,&8221; says Seth Schoen, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco. &8220;The commercial copyright infringers in Southeast Asia that..http://weblog.foopee.org/archives/2005/01/04/son-of-dvd-copy-protection/ |