DRM
Anti-Lock In Law for web apps?
The more web apps we use, and the better they are, the more we trust them with our data. Apart from all privacy issues: Lock-in is becoming more and more of a problem. What happens to your pictures (and the way you sorted them) when you cancel your flickr account? What about Gmail, Google Calendar […]
Code Monkey like Fritos
The Code Monkey Song. It’s been around for awhile, but it’s awesome:
Code Monkey get up get coffee
Code Monkey go to job
Code Monkey have boring meeting
With boring manager Rob
Rob say Code Monkey very dilligent
But his output stink
His code not “functional” or “elegant”
What do Code Monkey think?
Code Monkey think maybe manager want to write god damned login […]
Oscar torrents
Ha, this is hilarious. Piratebay launched OscarTorrents:
OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be — everyone can download the year’s nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use our rating system to choose their favourites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?
Now […]
Ode to the R.I.A.A.
David Pogue, tech columnist at the New York Times, comments only indirectly on the arrest of DJ Drama.
DJ Drama, mixtape maker extraordinaire, was arrested when his office was raided. Obviously the R.I.A.A. is suing him for creating mixtapes. No matter that the whole concept of mixtapes is, more or less by definition, a win-win situation…
Mixtapes […]
The Venice Project goes public beta
The Venice Project, an IP-TV project by Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis (the good guys behind Kazaa and Skype), has gone public beta and changed names. Now officially dubbed Joost, it has been subject of quite a bit of discussion lately. Given their track record, you can count on two things: It’s peer-to-peer based, and […]
John Perry Barlow: “If you wanna share something - share it.”
[…]If you wanna share something - share it. If you wanna use something - use it. Try to do so ethically in the sense of don´ t take things without attribution.[…] Pay no attention to these people when it comes to being creative. Go ahead and do the stuff that Larry showed in the beginning […]
Lawrence Lessig about The War On Copyright Infringers
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Lawrence Lessig gave a brief talk at Berlin on Dec 03, 2006. The talked - titled "The future of ideas" - was held at Schaubuehne, Berlin. For more info (in German) see their website.
I’ll be posting some more snippets of the talk during the next couple of days. Sorry for the shaky camera […]
Net Neutrality: Lessig & Crumley
Two brief videos about net neutrality:
Arin Crumley’s “Human Lobotomy”
…which features a fair deal of Larry Lessig, so here’ Lessig in an interview with netzpolitik.org’s Markus Beckedahl, too.
Larry Lessig on singing in the shower
Markus got a hold of Lawrence Lessig and has put up some pretty cool videos of their interview.
As a brief sample, Larry Lessig on singing in the shower:
“It is important that there be use of culture free of the regulation of copyright law. And the job of copyright law is to draw the parallels between […]
Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics
PoliticsOnline just published their list of this year’s Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics. I was very happy to see that Markus Beckedahl’s netzpolitik.org was among the winners, and he really deserves it. Netzpolitik.org covers some of the most important issues of the developing information society like DRM, copyright issues […]