shouting loudly

In a Rueters story this Thursday, Mark Cuban said that “anyone who [invests in YouTube] is a moron.” I LOVE YouTube, but I fear that he’s basically right. Cuban has two main points. His first claim, that YouTube is on the verge of being “sued into oblivion,” is hardly a done deal but generally right [...]

As if I needed another reason to think that Verizon is, perhaps, just in this for the money. Apparently, USF subsidies aren’t enough for them to make mad cash in rural areas, so they’re just going to sell off the lines to the highest bidder, who’ll slash costs, reduce service, and dash any hope that [...]

We spend our share of bytes griping about the media, so here’s a highlight: Little Miss Sunshine is fantastic. Funniest movie in years. Poignant, too. Steve Carell deserves a nod for best supporting actor. I say this despite the flick being distributed by Fox Searchlight, the faux indy flick wing of the less-than-wonderful company Newscorp. [...]

I’m kidding, of course, because I’m blogging largely for reasons (e.g., a chance to share my shoddy “insights” with nobody before they become enshrined in something more permanent) that pay off regardless of audience size, but I’m pretty impressed. Tina, “the blogger behind Tinasbeen.blogspot.com” (and my less-than-technophile fiancee), started a blog on Tuesday. Today, her [...]

If only that headline were from The Onion. Instead, it’s from Princeton Computer Science Professor Ed Felten. Here, from his blog post, is Felten’s description of how he learned of this flaw: On Wednesday we did a live demo for our Princeton Computer Science colleagues of the vote-stealing software described in our paper and video. [...]

In the latest round of developing US copyright law via unaccountable delegations to international policy bodies, the PTO and Copyright Office are helping to concoct a WIPO treaty that would give a scary new para-copyright to broadcasters. The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is currently considering what is often referred to as the “broadcast treaty,” [...]