House panel approves copyright bill | CNET News.com Dave Smith, you might want to look at this. The new law allows jail time if you have $1,000 worth of copyrighted material available in a shared folder on a computer. And I think this is correct. As we’ve discussed before, stealing a copyright is no different [...]
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MSNBC – GlennReynolds.com Interesting experiment, I hadn’t heard about it but I am going to pay attention to this. Basically, this guy wrote a book about intellectual property, then allowed that book to be distributed for free if used in a non-commercial venture and credit was given to him.
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Why I am happy to be Ned Flanders on the piracy issue. Wow, I’m taking a beating on Piracy, and I would be lying if I said it hasn’t bothered me all weekend. To the point where I lost some sleep on Saturday. I wasn’t going to prolong the debate, figuring it wouldn’t really accomplish [...]
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Over the past day or so, I’ve been talking with Mike online about my new stance on piracy. The more I’ve talked to him, the more I’m convinced my new position is the only position that is consistent with that which I believe. I’ve been quite a pirate. I have around 60 GB of music, [...]
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ISC 17 – Library privatisation: fact or fiction?: Stirring the Library issue again. I found this from a British site called Information for Social Change. Their links page can be found here. Links “Do we really want to see public libraries change into commercial, moneymaking enterprises, where the wants and needs of the local community [...]
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A resolution. The more I’ve thought about this today, the more I realized I must do this. And now that I’ve embraced the idea, it feels pretty good. I will never borrow a book again. I will begin screening my music collection for files I do not already own on CD, and I will start [...]
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The Paradox of Carnegie Libraries Another interesting article on the library topic. I was searching for some information on the ability to opt out of the library when I found this. I guess I’m not the only person with this issue.
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