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Good News, Bad News: ACTA, TPP And Lessons Not Learned
As attention gradually shifts from the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement, Kimberlee Weatherall at the University of Queensland, Australia, has had the excellent idea of looking at them as part o… Continue reading
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Don’t Complain About Piracy When You Create Crappy Games
This story really boggles my mind. Recently, Steven Sargent, studio exec of Appy Entertainment, took to the press to complain about the Google Android platform. The first part of the small interview was a complaint about the amount of piracy on the And… Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Real Zombies…
Since it’s Halloween, there are probably a lot of folks dressed up like zombies. But as we’ve mentioned before, Mother Nature has created a few of her own actual zombies. Here are just a few more examples.
Did you know that the government sprays a ba… Continue reading
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Filtering and Transforming Java Collections with Guava’s Collections2
One of the conveniences of Groovy is the ability to easily perform filtering and transformation operations on collections via Groovy’s closure support. Guava brings filtering and transformation on collections to standard Java and that is the subject of… Continue reading
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Do The Authors Of The Felony Streaming Bills Even Know What The Details Of Their Own Bills Mean?
After Justin Bieber himself pointed out how silly the various bills in both the Senate and the House (S.978 and SOPA, respectively) concerning making streaming a felony were, the office of the key sponsor behind S.978, Senator Amy Klobuchar’s, insisted… Continue reading
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Yes, You Can Compete With Free, But It Has To Be Done Right
We’ve talked in the past about how good, easy, convenient and cheap/free legal content distribution services appear to have an enormous impact on reducing infringement — and as a bunch of folks have been submitting, yet another study out of Sweden has… Continue reading
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What Exactly Makes A Pop-Up Mall A Pop-Up Mall? On Second Thought, Who Cares?
One of the pernicious effects of once-obscure legal issues surrounding copyright and patents seeping into everyday life is the belief that even the vaguest ideas can be owned, and that such ownership is a thing worth fighting over. Here, for example, … Continue reading
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An Open Letter To Chris Dodd: Silicon Valley Can’t Help Hollywood If You First Cripple It With Bad Regulation
Dear former Senator Dodd:
It was refreshing to hear your recent speech, in which you suggested that there really isn’t a “Hollywood vs. Silicon Valley” fight, and that the two sides need to work together to help create the ecosystem where both can thr… Continue reading
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ACLU Sues Los Angeles Police For Harassing Photographers For Taking Photos With No Apparent Aesthetic Value
Remember how the Long Beach police defended their decision to detain photographers if they believed whatever they were photographing had “no aesthetic value?” Well, it seems that the ACLU took notice of that. Neppe alerts us to the news that the Los … Continue reading
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Go Daddy Supports E-PARASITE Legislation Even Though Its Own Site Is Dedicated To Theft Of Property Under Terms Of The Bill
The supporters of the new E-PARASITE Act (the even worse version of the already dreadful PROTECT IP) have been pretty desperate trying to find any “tech” companies to support these bills. It’s kind of amusing that the only ones they’ve been able to tu… Continue reading
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