Entries Tagged as 'copyfight'

Friday, October 19th, 2007

TV-Links.co.uk Raided, Owner Arrested: UPDATED

TV-Links (now dead) is a site which links to sites like Google Video and YouTube, which host clips of TV shows. Today, the Gloucestershire County Council, in association with a group called the FACT, raided the site’s servers and arrested the 26 year old man from Cheltenham who ran the site.

A man is now in […]

Monday, August 27th, 2007

More Bullshit Legislation Pending, This Time from Howard Berman (D-CA)

Same shit, different asshole.
Honestly, I don’t even feel compelled to comment on this one because what he wants is just so absurd I don’t think it could actually pass, he hasn’t actually filed any paperwork yet, and TorrentFreak’s write-up says everything that needs to be said.
Quoth the Blog:
“When it comes to legislation, the Internet is, […]

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Steven Colbert Destroys Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen is basically in disagreement with every single thing I stand for. He’s apparently opposed to giving the masses the ability to produce art and share opinions, because he claims that hurts those who do the same thing, only with corporate backing. Although I agree with him that journalists should report the full […]

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

Harry Reid (D-NV)’s Corrupt “Campus-Based Digital Theft Prevention” Amendment

It was bad enough when it was the industry versus college students. Now the federal government is getting involved.

Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is trying to get his own amendment attached to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act. His amendment would require universities to do the following things:
* Report annually to […]

Sunday, June 17th, 2007

Wretched Ignorance; BU Student Fights Back Against the RIAA

Woah, really weird comment on my last post. A guy calling himself the_elephant seems pretty pissed about my sort-of-ageist comments. He called me wretchedly ignorant and used a lot of capslock. I think he sort of missed the point of what I was saying, though, and I don’t like being accused of discrimination. It’s not […]

Saturday, June 9th, 2007

Report from IS2K7

I’m back! The conference was cool, I’m glad I went. Here’s my wrap-up:
Left on Thursday. Pretty long journey, R5 to Philly, New Century Bus to NYC, Fung-Wah to Boston, MBTA to my hotel. The connections were fast and to be honest I was disappointed by the lack of explosions/chickens on the buses.

Conference began early the […]

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

Going to IS2K7!

Sorry I haven’t updated in a while. Finals were intense and now I’m home and playing through the new Zelda game for the Wii (which is brilliant). I’ve got some ideas for projects to keep me busy during the summer, though, so look out for those. Anyway.
A few weeks ago I received an email from […]

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007

Takedown This!

Clicky for bigger.
Bring it on, AACS-LA.
Thanks to Boston’s Good Faith Tattoos!
Sorely,
Rich.

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

dX

..Jesus, I’m such a nerd. We started playing DnD and didn’t have any dice, so I wrote the dX Online Dice Roller. That’s pretty much all I’m gonna say about it.
So apparently Norway is awesome for a new reason besides fjords and black metal! The Liberal Party there is now advocating legal filesharing for non-commerical […]

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

RIAA Sorter

The Recording Industry Association of America likes to sue college kids and old ladies and little kids who share music files over P2P networks. RIAA Sorter is a simple program written in Python which will sort a directory of music into RIAA and Non-RIAA folders. Then, you can feel safe about sharing your Non-RIAA music […]