A year ago I posted a review recommending both Amazon and Rhapsody’s MP3 stores in quite glowing terms. Both seemed to work from Nepal at the time, and Amazon has continued to work up until at least as recently as September 28th. Even the largely CC and globally available work of Jonathon Coulton is blocked. [...]
Johnson’s stats from the current Congress:
Number of sponsored bills: 8
Number of co-sponsored bills 161
Number of sponsored bills passed: 0
Number of co-sponsored bills passed: 9
Our remarkably unsuccessful four-term Congressman in the fifteenth Congressional District in Illinois seems shockingly… well, unsuccessful this time around. If this fellow was a lawyer in any of our [...]
I fired off the below after reading Corey Doctorow’s recent news post about Wal-Mart’s about face on DRM. It occurred to me shortly afterwards that there may be enough consumers affected by the Yahoo, MSN, and Wal-Mart server shut-downs that we might be able to make noise enough to get a new DMCA exemption for [...]
As a libertarian I really don’t care if most of the workers of the world want to unite. That said, I do suddenly find myself a dues-paying union man. This May Day Labor Day, I suppose I am now obligated to post something that can help bring up the downtrodden, help to minimize the impact [...]
(Major Update: Amazon suddenly cut off international IP address access to their store, including from countries that lack separate Amazon storefronts and including military and aid workers, and right before Christmas. If only I’d seen it a week earlier: Could and would have shifted $1000 of my gift spending elsewhere. Perhaps you/others should?)
The competition:
As a [...]
Obama’s choice of veep is far from comforting. An active opponent of our basic fair use priveleges, Senator Joe Biden introduced and actively promoted legislation that would have criminalized far more than the already-rather-wretched Digital Millenium Copyright Act of 1996. The “bill would [have? - is it dead?] make it a federal felony to try [...]
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