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Finally people are standing up to Walmart. I wish my home town would have had the fortitude to stand up to Walmart then dozens of small business's would still be open and the downtown area would not look like a ghost town. [Dan Gillmor]
I am sure this comes as no surprise considering the lobbying power of the RIAA and MPAA. Political contributions have helped also These 2 organizations continue to realize they have to adapt their marketing strategy. No one wants to pay $19.95 for a CD not does anyone want to pay $24.95 for a DVD. [Wired]
The start of another legal battle and one that needs to be fought. If the MPAA and others get their way we will continue to loose rights we have now on Fair Use Laws. I call it il-legalization through attrition of legacy equipment. Just think about how many electronic components you have replaced over the past 10 years and what
A long battle against an individual hosting the DeCSS code and other web sites that had carried the DeCSS code was dropped today. Even though a court ruling against 2600 several years ago found it illegal for websites to carry the code the DVD copy control association has decided to move on. Ziff Davis did make a mistake in their
A new Non-Profit group call themselves "Click The Vote," hopes to make digital copyright and computing matters an issue in the 2004 election campaigns. [Cnet]
In countries such as China that filters the IP traffic preventing chinese citizens from getting to many Internet sites. But as technology expands the government is finding it harder to filter content. This is outstanding news information will speed change in that people can educate themselves via independent sources not what the government wants them to know. [Wired]
It's nice to see that more and more sites are getting exposed for what they truly are. Ars Technica has penned the phrase "journo-lobbying". Talk about the ultimate scam this is another way that companies are able to influence markets, politics & fund raising etc. [Ars Technica]