Archives for 2001

Always on the cutting

September 7, 2001 by Michael Boyle

edge, Boing Boing has finally added permalinks!

I came across

September 4, 2001 by Michael Boyle

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.

In brazen defiance

September 3, 2001 by Michael Boyle

of Labour Day, today I’m labouring. Boy am I labouring. More soon, honest.

Rabbit rabbit

September 1, 2001 by Michael Boyle

Rabbit rabbit.

ago next week, in September, 1986, I started my university career at McGill University. That was when I first moved to the city I’ve made my home, and became, eventually, one of the most important turning points in my life. Coincidentally, next week I return to McGill, this time to teach a class in the graduate certificate program in e-commerce. I’m teaching one section of the Internet Design and Analysis course (with Ed Bilodeau, who founded the initial version of the course). That means two things: first, it’s kind of cool to be associating myself with McGill in a formal manner again, and second, I’ve been incredibly busy preparing, and falling slightly behind schedule… so this space may be a little sparse in the next while.