Archive for the ‘Technological Protection Measures’ Category
Saturday, August 25th, 2007
On George Hotz's blog, many commenters are urging him to patent his iPhone hack. This just misses the point.
Hotz is sad that, when he starts at RIT this fall, folks with more spare time will capitalize on his discovery. But he's not sad that all this hacking will go on ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
There are often times when I wish I had my trusty digital voice recorder—the one that sent Senator Ted Stevens’ “series of tubes” anti-net neutrality speech into the Internet Meme Hall of Fame. Yesterday afternoon at the annual convention for the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the ...
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Thursday, June 7th, 2007
Tina and I are now back from our honeymoon trip to Italy and Greece. And so are the copyright absolutists, who were again rattling their swords at colleges' IT departments this week.
On Tuesday, there was yet another congressional hearing filled with cries of rampant infringement via campus networks. These have ...
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Monday, May 14th, 2007
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 ...
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Friday, March 30th, 2007
As commentator Roy Mark argues, Congress is totally clueless in its attempts to deal with internet-based infringement.
Mark notes the quixotically conceived attempts to bribe and/or threaten colleges into magically preventing all on-campus infringement. Representatives such as Howard Berman (D-CA) are foolishly listening to copyright industry lobbyists as they blame colleges ...
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
At a conference over the weekend, former Clinton Administration IP chief Bruce Lehman admitted that his brainchild of a law banning the circumvention of digital rights management technologies hasn't worked out as well as he had hoped.
The conference, Musical Myopia, Digital Dystopia: New Media and Copyright Reform (pdf), was at ...
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
I'm in the middle of a 2-week vacation in Colorado, but I guess I have to say something about Viacom's suit against YouTube--or, at least, I have to link to some people who say something.
At News.com, Declan McCullagh says the case depends on how you view 17 USC § 512, ...
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA) and John Doolittle (R-CA) have introduced a bill that would scale back the effect of the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA and limit the liability of technological innovators, sparking debate among all stakeholders.
The Freedom And Innovation Revitalizing U.S. Entrepreneurship Act of 2007, or FAIR USE Act ...
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Monday, February 26th, 2007
BitTorrent, long decried by studios as the source of all evil, has become the next great hope for turning online freeloaders into paying internet customers.
Customers can rent Analyze That and other, um, hit movies for just $2.99 to $3.99 for one day. They can also buy single episodes of TV ...
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Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Recently, a hacker discovered and publicized a key that unlocks both HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs. Just a few days later, SlySoft has released a beta version of its AnyDVD software that can rip HD-DVDs.
Since 2000, you've been legally forbidden from hacking the encryption on your DVDs. For about as ...
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