Tag Archives: copyfight

Movie-industry self-piracy proves that IP addresses aren’t people, invalidates copyright enforcement schemes

Posted on Thursday, September 22, 2011 by author-unknown

TorrentFreak has excellent analysis of the revelation that a user in the Swedish Film Institute’s IP block has been accused of illegally downloading movies in a report from one of the motion picture industry’s copyright bounty-hunters. Rather than snig… Continue reading →

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Obit for Michael S Hart, ebook inventor and Gutenberg Project founder

Posted on Sunday, September 18, 2011 by author-unknown

In this week’s Observer, a heartfelt obituary from John Naughton for Michael S Hart, founder of the Gutenberg Project, and inventor of ebooks:

Those who knew him testify that Michael Hart was an extraordinary individual – idiosyncratic, original,… Continue reading →

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Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property: understanding the state of play in global knowledge politics

Posted on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 by author-unknown

Access to Knowledge in the Age of Intellectual Property is a book and free download from MIT press:

What might “terminator” seeds, access to medicines, free software, and free culture have to do with one another? Do the global attempts to push back… Continue reading →

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Car immobilizers cracked due to crappy proprietary crypto

Posted on Saturday, December 18, 2010 by author-unknown

Karsten Nohl of Security Research Labs, a white-hat hacker, believes that a recent spike in car theft is due to a break in the car immobilizer security systems; thieves are able to re-mobilize the immobilized vehicles. My question is: how long until so… Continue reading →

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EFF on US domain copyright seizures

Posted on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 by author-unknown

The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Corynne McSherry’s got great commentary on the Department of Homeland Security’s seizure of 82 domain names — this act of quasi-legal confiscation and censorship is not only ineffective at combatting infringement… Continue reading →

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Canadian Heritage Minister inadvertently damns his own copyright bill

Posted on Thursday, November 18, 2010 by author-unknown

Michael Geist sez, “Canadian Heritage James Moore appeared on public television yesterday to defend his copyright bill and to oppose a new levy system. In doing so, he made the case for why the digital lock provisions in the bill are so problematic. … Continue reading →

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Publisher sells DRM-free ebooks to libraries

Posted on Tuesday, November 2, 2010 by author-unknown

German publisher Springer Verlag decided not to infect the 40,000 ebook titles it sells to libraries with DRM — though the booksellers that carry Springer titles still insist on DRM for their proprietary stores. As a result, “once libraries have paid … Continue reading →

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Terry Bisson/Rudy Rucker illustrated picture book

Posted on Tuesday, July 13, 2010 by author-unknown

How cool is this: Rudy Rucker painted a series of illustrations for Terry “Bears Discover Fire” Bisson’s series of “Billy” short stories, and they’ve released the resulting ebook as a free download:

In our never-ceasing quest to shock and enlighten … Continue reading →

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