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These are the posts from May 2007

May 14, 2007
Posted by Bill Herman

“Desperate company” makes bizarre DMCA threats

Using a very creative interpretation of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Media Rights Technologies (MRT) has issued a cease-and-decist notice to Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and RealNetworks.
Their alleged violation of the law? Failing to use MRT’s digital rights management technology as a means of retarding copyright infringement. (Note that each of these companies actively deploys [...]

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Posted by Bill Herman

Minilink: Blogging your way to musical success

NYT has an interesting story on musicians’ use of blogs to reach niche audiences.
Props to Tina for the link.

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Posted by Bill Herman

Slate Art on Vid Game Violence: On point? Plagiarized?

In light of the first-person shooter-style massacre at Virginia Tech, Slate columnist Amanda Schaffer cribs from the academic literature to argue that video games really do contribute to violent behavior. The point about video game violence is important, so I write about it first. After that, I’ll spar with Schaffer for apparently summarizing somebody else’s [...]

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May 9, 2007
Posted by Bill Herman

Save internet radio: Support HR 2060

Congress has heard our cries to save internet radio.
Along with 50 bipartisan cosponsors, Reps Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL) have introduced HR 2060, the Internet Radio Equality Act. Instead of the outrageously high royalties set by the Copyright Royalty Board, commercial stations could choose to pay either .33 cents per hour per listener, [...]

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May 5, 2007
Posted by Bill Herman

U Indiana scholars study O’Reilly Factor: Uses derogatory names ever 6.8 sec

In perhaps the most systematic study to date of The O’Reilly Factor, journalism scholars from the University of Indiana concluded that O’Reilly systematically deploys a broad array of disreputable propaganda techniques.
On many counts, the researchers concluded O’Reilly uses underhanded propaganda techniques over 50% more often (12.9 times per minute) than the infamous 1930’s radio host [...]

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Framing the Digg story: Free speech triumph or mob rule?

In my last post about the Digg/HD-DVD hack story, I fretted that the take-away lesson from the Digg story would be that Web 2.0 is just too hot to handle. The mainstream media is generally framing it this way, but the tech news world is mostly framing it as a small victory for free speech [...]

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May 2, 2007
Posted by Bill Herman

Digg users bury site

After attempting to stifle repeated postings of a crack for the DRM on HD-DVDs, the user-edited site Digg.com has caved to a user revolt, allowing users to post the information, exposing the site to substantial legal liability.
The Lede (a Times blog about the news) has an excellent summary of the story’s very recent history. Perhaps [...]

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