Monday, January 8th, 2007
More signs that the music industry is realizing just how bad DRM is for business and experimenting with distributing music without digital rights controls:
"The majors . . . have got to capitulate, or they will continue to have a fractured digital media market that will slow down and stagnate," says ...
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Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
In his post "Fair Use and Network Neutrality" Lessig draws a connection which did not seem to previously exist but appeals to me as I have been looking for an excuse to talk about both in the same breath. He says:
"...in a fundamental sense, fair use (FU) and network neutrality ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
Yoda said "Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'" He didn't run a site on the internet, which is and always will be a "best effort network" with no guarantees of availability and performance. It is up to the customer to optimize these aspects the best they can for ...
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Wednesday, February 1st, 2006
Dennis Crouch has a very entertaining post thanks to a rather talented patent agent - talented in Shakespearean verse that is!
To file, or not to file (today): that is the question
Whether 'tis easier on the budget to file
The current draft without further extension;
Or instead, to take more time to review
And ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
Now is a truly amazing time to be alive for the curious and adventurous - opportunities to do what you enjoy for a living have never been better. The information available on obscure interests is amazing. There is lots to be optimistic about as the future will continue to bring ...
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Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Why does "information want to be free"?
I think the phrase is a good way of explaining to most people that information is really hard to treat like property. The cost of reproduction and transportation is absurdly low, thus it is trivial to distribute freely, in the sense of "free as ...
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Tuesday, October 5th, 2004
The coming economic crisis in information
I enjoyed reading Adam Rifkin's back of the envelope calculations about personal information storage and processing. I'm looking forward to trying to make at least a few of the @20 Gigabytes of information I will deal with in my life really count. I know a ...
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Monday, August 2nd, 2004
Intellectual properties include copyright, trademark, patent, trade secrets and mask works. (yes I needed to look that one up also!)
The laws that govern such properties and their relationship to society were designed to foster investment in creativity and innovation since society would (arguably) be much less productive without the ...
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