Posts tagged “digital rights”

This post is illegalMay 7, 2007

I spent the weekend being antisocial and exhausted. Also, I posted an "illegal" number: 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0. The MPAA is trying to suppress it, Digg revolted, and I explore what happens when you empower users enough to destroy your own site.

Aaron Swartz, self-important boy-genius that he is, does occasionally have clever things to say....Jul 31, 2003

Compulsory licensing for free music downloads sounds appealing but doesn't work. The real fix is making buying music easier than stealing it. Right now, stealing wins on convenience. I'd pay per song for guaranteed quality, but not RIAA prices -- they're a useless middleman ripping everyone off.

The RIAA is planning an offensive against the new crop of file-sharing services, including a PR...Oct 3, 2001

The RIAA is planning PR campaigns and "spoofing or interdiction" against file-sharing services. That's industrial sabotage, which is illegal, but these are the same folks deliberately breaking CDs to prevent copying, so I guess the law is optional for them.

Attention, all computer-using citizens of the United States. EMIGRATE NOW. Hot on the heels of the...Sep 8, 2001

The SSSCA would make it illegal to own storage devices without "certified security technologies." Combined with the DMCA and anti-rave legislation, the US is becoming a frighteningly fascist state. The UK will probably follow. Time to emigrate. To Mars.