Archive for the 'Copyright & Filesharing' Category
When people post photos or other content on Facebook, chances are they’re not thinking about what Facebook can do with them. People are freaking about it now, though (again). The reality is that much of this stuff isn’t news; Facebook has always claimed rights to your photos and content.
Here’s Facebook’s recent [...]
College should be about broadening horizons, academic learning, and social development, not about policing file-sharing.
The entertainment industry already has an oh-so-brilliant aggressive campaign to sues its own customers. Now it has convinced Congress to pass a college funding bill with anti-P2P provisions intact under the guise of several higher education benefits with additional [...]
Evil Hasbro and the RIAA/MPAA
Joining the evil forces of the RIAA and MPAA , Hasbro has sued the makers of Scrabulous convincing them to pull their app from Facebook by legal bullying. … In the meantime, according to gawker.com , it seems that you can still play it at their website … not sure how long that will last before Hasbro squeezes them there, too.
RIAA Violates Internet Standards
I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .
… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:
Caught In The Battle
Originally written on May 24, 2007.
Internet2 (aka I2), a high speed research network with over 200 universities, can also be used for transferring non-research related data like music or movie files.
In April 2005, when I heard that the RIAA was going after people on Internet2, I remember asking my colleague, “How the hell did they [...]
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