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This week, the government responded to the Government 2.0 Taskforce report. I wrote briefly about my thoughts to the response the same day. Since then, I’ve been asked by several people what it would take for me to be more impressed with the response; what it would take to lift the C+ I gave it [...]
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The title of this post refers to many things in life – teaching someone a skill, engaging with clients on work, incompatible file formats. Incompatible file formats? Yes. Over the weekend we bought a couple of new albums from iTunes. Obviously, they work all across the house where we have a shared iTunes library. But [...]
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Brilliant fair use of Disney material to illustrate the notions of fair use.
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Yet again, the politicians running Australia’s Federal Government look to be getting it tragically wrong… The Copyright Amendment Bill 2006 is due to go through Parliament sometime in the relatively near future. Despite an earlier, groundbreaking and sensible parliamentary report, and input from Electronic Frontiers Australia, to the current Senate enquiry, the fear is that [...]
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While The Pirate Bay undoubtedly has pointers to material of less-than-legal status, BitTorrent itself is a hugely useful technology, with many legal implementations. Thanks to a combination of (sensible) Swedish law and determination on the part of the operators of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA has failed in a takedown maneuver aginst the site. Full [...]
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Clay Shirky has told boingboing a tale which clearly illustrates the brokenness of copyright laws in the developed world. These effects and others akin to them, created by the bloody-minded enforcement of stupid laws, are the reason so many applications are broken or crippled, why grannies and little kids get sued by the RIAA for [...]
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