Sold Down the Digital River: FCC Kills Internet Access Rules
I haven't seen this diaried yet - I apologize in advance if I missed it. But I just read this article in the LA Times, and I realize it's death knell for independent ISPs offering high speed internet...
View ArticleRep. Conyers, you've got some answering to do
http://arstechnica.com/... A frightening bit of legislation was introduced to the US House Judiciary Committee on Friday. The Digital Transition Content Security Act of 2005 (PDF) is sponsored by Rep....
View ArticleNew GOP Congressional Bill Makes DMCA Look Tame
Copied from Slashdot:An anonymous reader writes "Representative Lamar Smith is sponsoring the Intellectual Property Protection Act. The new bill is designed to give the Justice Department 'tools to...
View ArticleNew Dark Age, USA.... USA, meet the New Dark Age...
OK, if I were Eddie Vedder, I'd be bummed that a lot of people are gonna download the new Pearl Jam album soon after it hits the streets in May (I'll be buying it, Ed). If I were Bill Gates, I'd be...
View ArticleAttention: DMCA+ Legislation Coming
This article on news.com is disturbing:For the last few years, a coalition of technology companies, academics and computer programmers has been trying to persuade Congress to scale back the Digital...
View ArticleInternet Broadcasting: The Players Trying To Kill It
All, Short version: Record companies, having lobbied Congress with half-truths about the nature of Internet Broadcasting, now want to use their newly-materialized royalty-defining muscle to make it...
View ArticleYouTube Takes Down Comedy Central Clips Based on DMCA Claims
I received a couple of emails from YouTube this afternoon (see below) notifying me that a third party (probably attorneys for Comedy Central) had made a DMCA request to take down Colbert Report and...
View ArticleSoccer Mom's Kids sued by RIAA (Via Boing Boing)
The RIAA, not content to extort money from a White Plains, NY soccer mom, who refused to give in to their DMCA lawsuit, is now suing two of her children. My blood pressure rises. Copyright needs to be...
View ArticleRIAA sues stroke victim
Looks like the RIAA is at it again in their latest batch of frivolous lawsuits. See, it's one thing to sue 12 year-old girls, grandmas, dead people, and cash-strapped college students; but it's another...
View ArticleMoveOn and EFF suing Viacom over Colbert parody removal
Looks like the copyright wars regarding YouTube have gotten hotter. Not only have we learned today that NBC Universal and Fox plan on launching a rival video site (gee, I wonder if they allow users to...
View ArticleA big, fat F.U. message to Sumner Redstone of Viacom
And an F.U. to the BBC, too. But mainly, I want to rant about Viacom, and for a simple reason. Viacom, Sumner Redstone's company, are corporate bullies who show their colors in their futile legal...
View ArticleOne Small Canary In The Media Coal Mine Gets Whacked
I've seen a few "Save Web Radio" posts here at DK over the past few weeks; most sink quickly. Which, given the fact that there are so many other things going on (US Attorney scandals, questionable...
View ArticleMay 1, 2007: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0
I'm stunned. Last night I almost missed a revolution. It wasn't there at 4 pm Mountain time. It was over by 2 am the next morning.
View ArticleAndrew Meyer
In todays world it seems that all freedoms we once had are now being taken away by individuals fighting and killing for their beliefs
View Article"ABC is a pimple on the elephant's behind" Ted Koppel
Yes, he really did say that. He also said that he supports Dan Rather in his lawsuit against his former employers at CBS.http://www.tvweek.com/...Calling the ouster of Dan Rather from CBS News in 2006...
View ArticleWoman forced to pay $220,000 to RIAA
Since 2003, the RIAA has either sued or threatened to sue more than 20,000 people. Most of the people (liable or not) settled with them to the tune of $3,000-$5,000, while others who have been...
View ArticleUPDATE: Dear Johnny
UPDATE: youtube has informed McCain's Campaign, that they will not get a differing standard on DMCA compliance - that is is, no human review, citing risks to it's "Safe Harbor" provisions, and the...
View ArticleFair Use and Political Discourse
John McCain, who has never previously missed a chance to play up the importance of the DMCA's restrictions on public usage, has suffered a bit at the hands of the DMCA. His ads on YouTube have been...
View ArticleRealDVD and Movie Industry Again -- And Bob Barr, Too
OK I'm back on the RealDVD thing, again. And I can't believe I'm going to quote Bob Barr.
View ArticleWhen Obama gave the Queen a iPod he Broke the Law.
The EFF article starts out with this phrase"You know your copyright laws are broken when there is no easy answer to the question."
View ArticleThe Innovative Movie Industry
I have beenwritingabout the MPAA vs RealDVD case.MPAA vs RealDVD goes to court April 24. This is the movie industry trying to keep a program off the market because it lets you copy your own DVDs onto...
View ArticleYarr.. Pirate Party - coming soon to a country near you?
The results are in. In yesterday's European Parliament electons, the Swedish Pirate Party succeded in winning a seat, out of Sweden's 18 seats in the Parliament, with about 7% of the vote. A great...
View ArticleClimate Denial Crock of the Week - Creepy at the EP(a)
In june of 2009, a story surfaced about the alleged suppression by the US EPA of information related to climate change. The source of the information was reported to be one Dr. Alan Carlin, who,...
View ArticleHollywood Says No Fair Use, No Property Rights for Consumers: Judge Agrees
The long, tired saga of Hollywood media companies lashing out because they are frightened by technology continues.Earlier this week a judge ruled in favor of several movie studios who had sued to block...
View ArticleClimate Denial Crock of the Week/1998 Revisited
One of the enduring myths of climate denialism is that global warming stopped sometime in the last decade. I see it in the blaring headlines of pseudoscience websites, in comments on my videos, even...
View Article©opy®ight Law Is The P®oblem (All Rights Reserved)
It is one thing to demand a restoration of basic reason to government policy, and quite another to demand it simultaneously on all fronts. I cannot, therefore, blame the government for moving ahead on...
View ArticleStrangling the Net: Stripping DMCA Protections from YouTube
Yesterday I posted a diary which sank into oblivion, Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act Police State to Protect Iron Man 2?.One of only two comments seemed to have difficulty with reading all the big words...
View ArticleUPDATE: Telecoms’ Secret Plan To Attack Net Neutrality
Over the past couple of days, I wrote diaries that pointed at trends that are a threat to not only Net Neutrality, but the basic openness of the Internet that has fostered the explosive growth of such...
View ArticleThe War on Downloaders
The president's votes on FISA, his support of the Patriot Act, the expansion of TSA unreasonable search and seizures, and now the war on medical marijuana, demonstrates his commitment to freedom right...
View ArticleWhere Does One Report a Metaphorical Forcible Fornication by Facebook?
I'll try to keep this simple. If you've read my past diaries, you know that I have had an ongoing battle with a group of Wisconsin thugs known on Facebook as "Operation Burn Notice" and "Knot My...
View ArticleUS DOJ Website Down; Whitehouse.gov under DDOS attack? --Anonymous claims...
As of this moment, the USDOJ website at http://justice.gov as well as that of the Motion Picture Association of America (http://mpaa.org) appear to be down or at least severely impacted by an apparent...
View ArticleIn the future everyone will get royalties
Ok, not exactly yet another SOPA, PIPA, diary. (I mean, aren't they dead? Didn't we win that one?)They passed the DMCA (which is a turd for other reasons) and there was a compromise in there. Websites...
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Appeals Court revives billion-dollar suit against YouTube
The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit today has overturned a previous grant of summary judgment in YouTube's favor, and revived a billion-dollar lawsuit alleging intentional...
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YouTube prevails against entertainment industry copyright suit
In April 2012, I reported on the Second Circuit decision reviving a billion-dollar 2 suit filed against YouTube in 2007 by a broad coalition of plaintiffs, including Viacom, Paramount, the Premier...
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Google Now Taking Down Eight ‘Pirate’ Links Every Single Second
Google Now Taking Down Eight ‘Pirate’ Links Every Single SecondDue to its transparency report we can see exactly how many DMCA notices Google receives each month and the latest numbers are nothing...
View ArticleBigoted right-winger Dr. Chaps takes Right Wing Watch off Youtube.
This is a short diary, with some news:Gordon Klingenschmitt, aka Dr. Chaps, the disgraced and court-martialed former Air Force chaplain, who now spends his time spreading homophobic bigotry on the...
View ArticleRight Wing Watch is Back on Youtube! Sorry, Dr. Chaps!
A couple of weeks ago, I broke the news that Right Wing Watch's Youtube account had been terminated for alleged copyright violations, thanks to complaints by ultra-right-wing anti-gay hatemonger Gordon...
View ArticleDMCA TAKEDOWN
As some of you have been made aware, Pearson responded to links to my post with a Take Down order. We expected it It is their right It is currently the law..... (thanks to the inattention of the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Victory for the Right to Tinker in Printer Cartridge Case
Important news reprinted verbatim from the EFF website: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/05/supreme-court-victory-right-tinker-printer-cartridge-case News Update by Kit Walsh May 30, 2017The Supreme...
View ArticleTwitter takes down Trump campaign video about George Floyd due to copyright...
In “Twitter Pulls Down Trump Campaign Video About George Floyd’s Death Over Copyright-Infringement Claim”, Variety’s Todd Spangler reports that on Thursday Twitter removed a video posted by Donald...
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