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UK must match law to intent
The BBC on Lord Triesman: While [Lord Treisman] said that the government had no interest in “hounding 14-year-olds who shared music”, it was intent on tracking down those who made multiple copies for...
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teach, don’t preach
The 20th century will linger so long as students are taught this: When the concept was explained that they were obtaining a product that they did not pay for and it was essentially stealing from the...
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Go U of O!
R/W Web: According to the elderly gentleman in line at the coffee shop this morning who first told me about the news (we were discussing In Rainbows, which was playing on the stereo there) – the music...
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the Doctorow is in
Cory Doctorow lists a few reasons why authors should allow sharing of their books and includes the ethical argument: the ethical reason is that the alternative is that we chide, criminalize, sue, damn...
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University of Dayton: file sharing is unethical and dangerous
That’s according to Barbara Belle of the University of Dayton (Office of Computing Ethics). News editor Lauren Williams writes of Belle’s presentation: The power point presentation focuses on the facts...
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Birdsong as I saw it
Red Hat’s Birdsong. Here’s my understanding: As an extension of nature (e.g. a birdsong), music is freely shared by fellow beings. Music performance is transcribed (by composers like him). Technology...
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sharing denies nothing
Tom notes some attribution lost in space beginning with this, which came from this, which came from this. Amid this comical exchange on copyright, a questionable argument is taken for granted (in the...
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Steal This Film – Part 2
Cory notes that Steal This Film – Part 2 is now available to thieves. My high school tech class stole Part 1 last semester, following up with research on events surrounding Sweden’s Pirate Party and...
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the ethics of sharing and the commercial bargaining chip
In comment #8 of this post I ask Tom Hoffman: [do you] support the noncommercial propagation of cultural works as a bare minimum right individuals should be entitled to without permission? Tom replies:...
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“protecting the artists”
Of course, any artist seeking money that was essentially obtained through legalized extortion is committing a wrong. Artists claiming a “right” to such money should be shunned just as harshly as the...
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copyright as “property”? – responding to Doug Johnson
Doug Johnson: Peter, it seems to me (and I am happy to stand corrected), that you are arguing that if you can bring the cost of material and production of something to near zero, one is also obligated...
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fundamentally different viewpoints
Eric Hoefler: Distributing copies of [books], in any format, without payment, is wrong according to my best understanding and ethical sense so far. This gets right down to it. I see nothing ethically...
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understanding DRM and proprietary software
Technically speaking, proprietary software is not Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). Practically speaking however, proprietary software is required to implement DRM as intended. That is, without...
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“awesome aspects”?
Lee Lefever: One of the awesome aspects of getting started is that the Kindle already knows who you are. Since you purchase it from Amazon.com, it arrives connected to your Amazon account and...
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Back The TRUCK UP: buying v downloading
In a recent post on Jefferson, etc. I linked to a video that I had thought I’d seen before and then, upon further review, found out that it wasn’t what I thought it was. Confused? Yeah, me too. The...
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e-textbooks, DRM, and vendor lock-in for schools
Discussion over e-textbooks and hardware/software to read them has started at our school. Links to information regarding Amazon’s Kindle and CafeScribe were suggested to begin some research. Below is...
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i HAD to OPIne
Nate Anderson at Ars has an article labeling the drafted “HADOPI” law as “anti-P2P”, but it’s much worse. The law not only attacks p2p activities of the wired citizenry, but threatens to cut computer...
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say no to culture widgets
Doug Johnson asks Kindle questions. While I think it’s responsible (not paranoid) to voice concern over censorship, a more pointed reason why I’m so fanatically anti-DRM is that its objective is to...
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the sting of ‘All Rights Reserved’
A) Often, one has an ethical obligation to share yet B) One has a legal burden not to Posted in copyright, creative commons, ethics, file sharing, law
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dear lily, adjust your sails
I hadn’t heard of Lily Allen until her thoughtless, ranting, anti-filesharing babble went mainstream. I also hadn’t heard of Dan Bull. Posted in "Intellectual Property", "piracy", copyright, file...
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and how freedom can work
Check out “WHY DRM DOESN’T WORK“. Note that step #6 (which is closely coupled to step #5) is required for DRM to have its intended effect. I recommend running a Free system (e.g. GNU) and if you must,...
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a national anthem for Canad-arr!
With this news, I thought I’d propose an alternative anthem: O Canad-arr! Our rights and Internet True law reform of patents we shall get Through peer to peer we seed and leech, The bandwidth broad and...
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Kindle books’ latest antifeature: Lendle
A group of developers want us to believe they’ve made a wonderful new technology that “allows” digital books to be “lent”. With digitized works, the key advantage is the ability to easily make and...
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a beautiful and “important service announcement”
Flattr (or more precisely, the email I received from them today) now seems to say something like, “if you feel you contribute, then let people shower you…even pennies, if they are so generous”. If one...
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more on the ethics of sharing
An argument that Jammie Thomas’ fine for sharing culture is “unconstitutionally excessive” will be made. Using archaic antiquated (thx Tom!) copyright law to abuse computer users for sharing published...
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