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To help Antigua recover part of the vast sums lost due to the US blocking online gambling, the World Trade Organization is allowing the Carribean nation to make unauthorized copies of $21 million worth of US goods.
The decision is surprising, but it will be hard to enforce. US trade representatives and copyright industry attorneys will [...]

Kembrew McLeod, dressed as a robot named Mr. Ifobca, confronted Bill Clinton and demanded he apologize for his deliberate racial smear against Sista Souljah.
Read more about Mr. Ifobca’s adventures here.

Trying to make links render.
Can I really use the link button? 
OMG, I think it works.One more time: push my luck(y button)?  

At a symposium today, a relatively new group called the Copyright Alliance is offering to help professors get a sense of which movies they can show in class without getting in trouble for copyright infringement.
The only problem with the idea is that, as long as the copy is obtained legally (e.g., bought, borrowed, or taped [...]

From the same Wired commentator who recently celebrated the slow death of music DRM, Eliot Van Buskirk now considers the impact of the vinyl resurgence on CDs.
The argument is almost certainly overstated, and he makes no good causal connection between the still-sparse (albeit growing) amount of vinyl and turntable sales, but I enjoyed reading about [...]

Lok just emailed me Wellington Grey’s hilarious DMCA slideshow. It’s positively hi-larious.

Many folks have wondered how serious Google is about winning a slice of the 700 MHz spectrum in the upcoming auction.
Harold Feld answers this for us in the best blog post ever. Specifically, they’re bent on destroying the current business model of the mobile industry and preserving the last vestiges of an open internet. In [...]

In my last report on this story, I put little thought into a minilink to an article by CNet’s Anne Broache, which frets that proposed net neutrality bills probably would not prevent Comcast’s ongoing peer-to-peer blockade. I no longer agree; I think even the weaker of the two bills on this count, if properly enforced [...]

CNet describes Google’s announcement that it will bid on 700 MHz spectrum as “Google versus the telecoms.”

According to CNet’s Anne Broache, the answer is: probably not.
The current legislative proposals allow network management, and Comcast could probably use this exemption to justify its decision to degrade BT traffic. It would only hit a wall if it was also offering another paid peer-to-peer service that always worked perfectly.