Saturday, December 23, 2006
For those who were not able to attend the Digital disobedience event on cyberactivism and culture jamming a video has been produced and hosted by the Berkman Center. It was a great time and I can’t thank them all enough for coming to us.
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
I found this to be a unique form of protest by Swedish site The Pirate Bay. they are opposing the tactic of a swedish isp who has decided to block it’s customers from accessing allmymp3.com. I won’t go into a long diatribe about the merits of imposing restrictions on your customers. I will however share […]
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
I’m helping put together an event this Friday as well called Digital Disobedience! It is an event on Cyberactivism and Culture Jamming this Friday where we’ll explore the interplay between digital technologies, activism, and the ability to modify and critique cultural institutions. Digital Disobedience Cyberactivism and Culture Jamming Fri., Dec 1, 6pm Science Center 110, […]
“Historically, copyright holders have never actually targeted everyone who infringed copyright, only those infringers who could be detected and whom it was economically worthwhile to pursue.” * Before the internet the RIAA could only target large pirate operations which duplicated physical media. It would seem that the RIAA has found a way to make thousands […]
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XrML provides a universal method for specifying a right (for example, “play” or “copy”) or a condition (such as a time limit) that is associated with a particular work. more information on this here <- warning, pdf
Reports have come in that two law suits involving the RIAA have been dropped recently with one defendent receiving payment for legal fees! This involved two brave persons actually committing to the law suit instead of settling but this news may convince others that it is worth it to fight for your rights in court. […]
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taken from Yahoo! Mail. Emphasis mine: * Yahoo! collects personal information when you register with Yahoo!, when you use Yahoo! products or services, when you visit Yahoo! pages or the pages of certain Yahoo! partners, and when you enter promotions or sweepstakes. Yahoo! may combine information about you that we have with information we obtain […]
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I bought a digital SLR the other day and after taking some 300 test shots I wanted to upload a few of them to my Flickr account. It’s been months since I’ve actually logged into my account and so when I did I was greeted by a random message from another Flickr user. She apparently […]
Another round of legal battles emerges in the world of YouTube. A blog [->reasoner.org] reports that the RIAA is basing lawsuits on a music recognition technology. I imagine this would be fairly easy to do using “psycho acoustic” vectors or something like that. First the law tells us we may not make duplicates of an […]
“There has been little discussion of methods and technologies for conducting data surveillance while respecting privacy and preserving civil liberties.” Seem ironic to anyone else? To be fair the CRCS is looking to understand the far more pervasive surveillance infrastructure [being] created around us: the routine use of database information for law enforcement, counter-terrorism, and […]