shouting loudly

In this article, RedHerring argues that YouTube will actually not be sued into oblivion. To paraphrase: 1. They don’t induce. (Contrasts sharply with Grokster.) 2. YouTube tries harder. (They do take stuff down. I mentioned this before.) 3. YouTube already deals with big media. The first two are decent reasons. At least, they’re good enough [...]

This time, it’s Forrester Research. Again, the claim is an impending death by copyright suit. Read more at Silicon.com.

We all know that media company managers want more consolidation, but the creative types (in whose name managers often call for profit-fattening policy changes) apparently disagree. Here’s the link from CNet.

Check this video from CNet for a quick review of all the hot new good-ness. A couple highlights include anti-phishing protections, in-line spellchecking (happy news for us bloggers), and session restore–in case the browser or your system crashes, you can pull everything back up just as it was. The current version is called “Release Candidate [...]

Having studied the DRM fight for a few years now, I’m starting to become fascinated by the politics of security vulnerabilities in general. For those of us who came to this question via the study of DRM politics, Ed Felten is perhaps the poster boy for the politics of security vulnerabilities. The professor of computer [...]

Netflix has a software program that helps you find movies you like, much like Amazon’s system helps you find stuff you like in general. CNet explains: Recommendation systems, also known as collaborative filtering systems, try to predict whether a customer will like a movie, book or piece of music by comparing his or her past [...]

At this Public Knowledge post by the ever-insightful Harold Feld, Richard Bennett posted a comment that twice accused Feld of willful ignorance. Harold and I both responded, and Bennett spewed–uh, I mean wrote–another reply to me. I’m dragging that fight here to avoid cluttering the PK boards.