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[one-liner]: How to Backup a Movie DVD via the Command Line on Fedora 14 & CentOS 5

Background

Have you ever wanted to make a backup copy of a DVD via the command line? I don’t really care about the politics/legal issues around this simple task, I have 3 kids and don’t really feel like purchasing multiple copies of the same discs. So here’s a quick and dirty way to accomplish the [...] Continue reading

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Just Because New Artist Platforms Aren’t Minting Millionaires Doesn’t Mean These Platforms Have Failed

Last week, the Tunecore blog, in a display of openness you won’t find at most major music sites or labels, made publicly available its sales numbers for July 2011 (one of the slower months for music sales) in order to point out just how many artists we… Continue reading

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SOPA Gets Taiwanese News Animation Treatment

Want to know when a bit of news has really hit the mainstream? It’s when the Taiwanese company Next Media Animation does a computer generated animation of the story. These videos have become a media sensation. Guess what they just took on? Yup, the… Continue reading

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ICE Seizes Another 150 Domains As SOPA/PIPA Debate Heats Up

Torrentfreak was the first to point out that Homeland Security’s ICE group has ramped up their domain seizures, seizing 131 domains on Friday. They also grabbed one more today. That last one is interesting, since the seizure came on a .com that was a… Continue reading

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Ex-RIAA Boss Ignores All Criticisim Of SOPA/PIPA, Claims Any Complaints Are Trying To Justify Stealing

Over the long weekend, Jay Rosen was kind enough to tweet out a link to my recent “definitive” post highlighting all the problems with SOPA and PIPA. Lots of folks picked up on it, but the one that struck me as the most interesting was from Hilary Ros… Continue reading

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Sen. Joe Lieberman Asks Google For A ‘Report Blog As Terrorist’ Button

Senator Joe Lieberman, taking a break from his usual schedule of trying to stamp out all things Wikileaks-related, returns to his old anti-terrorism stomping grounds, sending out a letter to Google CEO Larry Page, expressing his concern that not enough… Continue reading

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Play Music on Your Site with the Grooveshark Streaming API

Grooveshark is a web app for listening to music. You can search for any play just about any song there is. With an account you favorite stuff, build playlists, do social stuff, you know the drill. Perhaps less known is that Grooveshark has API’s that allow you to play music on your own site. This will be a tutorial and sample code to show you how that’s done.

Here’s the plan:

Requirements

First and foremost, you have to <a…

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Coming To Plates In Europe: Patented Vegetables, Produced By Conventional Breeding

The European Patent Organization (EPO) is a strange entity. Despite its name, it has nothing to do with the European Union. Instead, it was set up on the basis of the 1973 European Patent Convention to grant patents under that Convention.

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NY Times & LA Times Both Come Out Against SOPA & PIPA

We’ve written a few times about how columnists at various mainstream press outlets have been speaking out against SOPA and PIPA, showing that the story is catching on in the mainstream media. However, some of our critics have complained that since the… Continue reading

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European Court Of Justice Says ISPs Cannot Be Forced To Be Copyright Cops

Last Thursday, as many of us in the US were getting ready for a nice turkey dinner, the European Court of Justice issued a very nice ruling we should all be thankful for, saying that it is against EU law to require an ISP to set up a filtering system t… Continue reading

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