Monthly Archives: August 2010
Attacks On The Creative Commons Licenses
A while back I predicted that the Creative Commons Licenses would come under attack, as they give the artist tools that they can use to market themselves, and avoid having to become captives of the ‘Content Distribution Industries.’ That was an easy prediction to make. The Corporate Welfare Bums of the so called ‘Entertainment Industry’ had already been attacking new methods of distributing content, all of the way back to the historical attacks on the printing press. Continue reading
Will 2011 See An Earthquake Hit The Server Manufacturers?
A recent article from Semi-Accurate is about a rumor of the possible adoption of one potentially disruptive technology. Apparently there is a rumor going around that FaceBook is considering using ARM processors in their new Oregon Data Center. Continue reading
Corporate Copyright Scofflaws 0006 – The RIAA Member Companies
Please Note: The Header Has Been Modified – Please Read It! The largest copyright pirates are the large corporations, particularly in the content distribution business. Yes, those companies who scream the loudest that their customers are ‘pirating’ movies, songs, books, … Continue reading
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Tagged Copyright, Corporate Copyright Scofflaws
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The Beautiful And Talented Janis Ian – Fallout: A Follow Up To The Internet Debacle
Here’s the second of Janis Ian’s articles in the Internet, and it’s effect on the Music Industry. Read it and ask yourself, why haven’t I heard of this before? And yes, I do have permission to publish this, at the … Continue reading
The Beautiful And Talented Janis Ian – The Internet Debacle:An Alternative View
I love Janis Ian. Her music is some of the most incredible stuff that I’ve ever heard. OK, so I was a typical, hormone overloaded teenage boy when I first heard her on the radio, and I though she had … Continue reading
Law And Order In Canada – Robert Pickton, The Vancouver PD, And The RCMP
Oh, dear, where to begin. First off, a friend of mine knows Robert Pickton’s brother, so there’s three degrees of separation between me, and the worst serial killer in Canadian History. Kind of scary, isn’t it?
Robert ‘Willie’ Pickton is a bad odor, that just won’t go away. Even now, when he is behind bars in a Federal Penitentiary, he still makes the news. This time in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s own online magazine RCMP Gazette published an article (PDF Warning) – an article that had people so upset that it was pulled from the online edition almost immediately, though the title of the article remains on the front page. Luckily the RCMP aren’t as efficient as Google, a quick search turned up several websites which had mirrored the article, and of course they are mirrored in Google’s cache as well. Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Justice, Police State Watch Canada
Tagged Canada, Justice, Police State Watch Canada
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The Death Of The Fossil Fuel Companys Part Deux
Back on May 30th I wrote an article titled ‘The Death Of The Fossil Fuel Companies – Sell Your Stock Now While It’s Still Worth Something’, which caused a bit of an uproar. Those who are heavily invested in Fossil Fuel company stocks were less than happy with me. Many people were still willing to listen though, in part because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and in part because the economics make damned good sense. So I’ve been planning a follow up, and here it is. Continue reading
Lies Of Omission – James Gannon Doesn’t Tell You All The Details
The fact that James Gannon earns his living working for a law firm, which represents the CRIA is an important fact. one that could change the reader’s view of his argument.
As Marcellus says in Hamlet, Something is rotten in the State of Denmark. I think that Canada needs to adopt a similar regulation to the one that the American FTC adopted, requiring those who are being paid for their writing, to disclose the connection. Don’t you? Continue reading
Open Bytes article – ‘DCC, Bittorrent and Usenet – Is Bittorrent so great?’ – is Tim wrong?
The curious thing is that all of the laws which have been enacted, appear to have had virtually no effect on online copyright infringement. What has had a huge effect was legal options. People love to show their appreciation for value, especially when they can show that appreciation directly to the artist, or software developer. Continue reading
