Paul, Daniel and Steven are joined by Mykel Alvis on the latest episode of Nothing Serious Podcast for a quick fire jaunt through class divides, free speech, atheism, PETA, fallible popes, Facebook restricting speech, the entertainment industry wanting to infect and monitor your computer, the law breaking the law, patent trolls attacking podcasters and much, much … Continue reading Don’t Tell Me What To Think
The copyright was was just the beginning. - Recorded at the 28th Chaos Communication Congress. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg The last 20 years of Internet policy have been dominated by the copyright war, but the war turns out only to have been a skirmish. The coming century will be dominated by war against the general purpose computer, and the … Continue reading The Coming War On General Computation – Cory Doctorow
Google's General Counsel, Kent Walker, updated the Public Policy Blog yesterday to talk about some changes to their handling of DMCA take down notices on YouTube and how they are going to take action against spam blogs using AdSesne. Here's a few choice and possibly random quotes from the post before I throw out my decidedly random thoughts: There are more than 1 … Continue reading A Few Thoughts On Google’s Ideas On Making Copyright Work Better Online
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