DRM
Nothing to report on EMI
As I mentioned yesterday, the EMI and iTunes DRM deal did happen, and it was not a joke. I have nothing else to add, as it seems like everyone and their mothers have been talking about it. The demise of Read more…
Feeling silly
April’s Fools roundup
Another good April 1st has gone by, with some beautiful stories. Google sits on top of the April’s Fool list, as usual. This year everybody’s talking about Google’s TiSP, a convenient ISP that comes through your toilet, and whose tag Read more…
Copyright
Anti-plagiarism software company sued
(via Burkhard Schäfer) Students in Arizona have sued Turnitin, the makers of plagiarism-detection software. They claim that the company violates their copyright because the papers are kept in a database. Students could get $600,000 USD from the suit if they Read more…
Open source
GPL v3 v3
(via House of Commons and Groklaw) The third draft of the GPL version 3 is now available for comment. I haven’t had much time to go through it in detail, so I will be making comments later, mostly building on Read more…
Regulation
Criminality of death threats online
Everyone is talking about Kathy Sierra’s blog death threats. I don’t feel like I can comment a lot as I have never before read her blog or heard about her before I read the news coverage, but this seems to Read more…
Meme
Defining YouTube culture in one OKGo
Copyfight has a good post about the OKGo phenomenon. OK Go, for those who don’t know, is a band from Chicago that could be largely classed as alternative, but it may well be part of the new geek rock. What Read more…
P2P
Pirates complain about P2P
This is an excellent read from TorrentFreak. They interview a real pirate, one of those people who makes physical copies of copyright content and sells it in marketplaces, car-boots or pubs. Tony, a physical pirate, complains that P2P has stolen Read more…
P2P
P2P in the news
This is yet another well-informed technology article from The Guardian on P2P, IP and downloads. I often complain about journalistic inaccuracies, but praise where it’s due, sometimes they get it right.
Games
Virtual communities and IP
The Beeb runs a story on a new report by research consultants Screen Digest on the Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming (MMOG) market. The big headline in the report is that the MMOG market has now passed the $1 billion USD Read more…