, it seems that someone slagged Meg Hourihan about her totally reasonable entry the other day. It boggles the mind. The “contentious” entry was nothing but a nicely-worded observation by someone who has more perspective about this stuff than most. She was nice enough to grant that she was “sorry for the confusion.” Uh, that was gracious as hell, but if anyone was confused, they were looking for it.
Archives for September 2001
Sadly enough
I missed yet another fray day in San Francisco – this time it was the fifth edition, aka fray day 5. Be sure to browse the main fray day site though – it looks like it was a wonderful, multi-center event.
OK, I’ve read this story
at Wired News about the New Copyright Bill Heading to DC a couple of times now, and my jaw drops every time. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the hubris of some parts of the tech/entertainment industry, but still, I am. This stuff isn’t that hard, is it?
Always on the cutting
edge, Boing Boing has finally added permalinks!
I came across
a great, great bit of writing about the DMCA via Cory at Boing Boing today. Read the original at Electrolite, by Patrick Nielsen Hayden.
[…] It’s obviously unconstitutional. It’s obviously unfair.
[…]
And you may think you’re just defending yourself against smartass hackers who pirate your texts on Usenet. But when you rearrange the basic legal structures that undergird society, it’s not actually likely that the consequences are going to be limited to those you happen to find satisfactory. We are trading an old civic and civil model of intellectual property for a strange, ruthless new thing, red in tooth and claw. And its next victim won’t be hapless hackers who pirate Harlan Ellison stories on Usenet. Its next victim will be people like you. And you. And you.
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