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Digital Download Services — How Ugly Are The Licenses?

20-Jan-10

Consider Boomkat. They’re very specific about what you can do with them: put them on up to three computers, three portable music players, and burn on up to five CDs. They say that you permanently own the tracks you purchase, but at the same time they’re owned by Boomkat and the other parties [...]

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“Copyright Criminals” debuts on Independent Lens tomorrow night

19-Jan-10

Produced by my man Kembrew Mcleod who is a fellow contributer to Little Village and University of Iowa Associate Professor, and Benjamin Franzen, U of I graduate.
Check the PBS for your local viewing time here.
And here’s the trailer:

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Public Libraries — Trillion Dollar Menace to Media Industry?

19-Jan-10

Eric Hellman on the threat posed by public libraries
It’s a joke post that stops being funny pretty quick, but it raises a question. If there were no public lending libraries and someone tried to open one, would they be allowed to do so? If it hadn’t been grandfathered in, would lending CDs and [...]

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Au revoir, HBO

29-Mar-09

Apologies in advance any tortured, legalistic syntax.
My Internet service at home was interrupted for a day because HBO alleged that I had violated their copyright by using Bittorrent to download the series “Big Love.”
More precisely, as I found out in a letter several days after the fact, I’d — according to Mediacom and HBO — [...]

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