How do I love irony, let me count the ways. The MPAA has a stated hard line stance against infringement of copyright. “pirates are thieves, plain and simple” and has vigorously prosecuted both direct infringers and producers of DRM breaking…
There is a great video on YouTube explaining the downside of modern copyright law using the story of a very famous drum loop called the Amen Break. The video is called Amen Brother. It is 18 minutes long so be…
When Todd offered me the chance to post on the GNC blog my intention was to start without fanfare. I hope to maintain the feel that we all love about GNC while helping to increase the content on the site. If you…
This rhetoric out of the mouths of the folks at the RIAA are already at a fevered pitch over the introduction of the Digital Fair use Bill a great battle is about to begin. U.S. Representatives Rick Boucher (D-VA) stated…
Steve Jobs posted a letter to the community today talking about music and DRM. If it has not become obvious to you before, he painstakingly spells out the only reason why both Apple and Microsoft and a multitude of other…
BackupHDDVD, a tool to decrypt AACS protected movies has been released. This is for serious geeks only at this point. But needless to say this is going to cause some conversation. [doom9.org]
Many of you may know that the Librarian of Congress recently made some exceptions to existing copyright laws dealing with various published works. These ranged from obsolete computer software to video in the classroom which immediately sparked my interest. I’m…