Doctorow’s First Law
In the meantime, I’ve been filling the time productively by attempting to discover which online booksellers exist to serve the interests of copyright owners, like me, and which ones are seeking to unfairly bind copyright holders (and consumers) to their platforms and, as a result, diminish our negotiating power. I’m happy to say that after much work, I have persuaded three ...
Intro Az eInk-függőktől újfent elnézést kell kérjek, mert megint sikerült kirándulnom egyet a többcélú, LCD-vel szerelt szerkezetek birodalmába. A Vodafone Magyarország jóvoltából ugyanis megpróbálhattam képet alkotni, hogy az Androiddal szállított okostelefonok mennyiben képesek az elektronikus könyvek megjelenítésére. Némi kihívást is kerestem az ügyben, ezért ez elérhető legolcsóbb vasat v...
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen. In the one thousand two hundred twenty-ninth year from the incarnation of our Lord, Peter, of all monks the least significant, gave this book to the [Benedictine monastery of the] most blessed martyr, St. Quentin. If anyone should steal it, let him know that on the Day of Judgment the most sainted martyr himself will be the ac...
Oh DRM, how we love thee. Valve, the company responsible for the lifestyle game Modern Warfare 2 , recently issued an apology to over 12,000 legitimate MW2 users who were accidentally banned from getting their first-person shooter on by the company’s DRM implementation. Valve’s president, Gabe Newell, wrote an email stating the the snafu occurred when an issue with “a signature check between t...
The world of digital copyright law is a busy place this morning -- not only did the Library of Congress hand down new exemptions to the DMCA that allow smartphones to be jailbroken and short portions of movies to be ripped, but a new decision out of the Fifth Circuit has caused some major waves because it seems to say breaking DRM is legal. Except, well, maybe not.
Here's the deal: an uninter...
Every three years, the Library of Congress has the thankless task of listening to people complain about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA forbade most attempts to bypass the digital locks on things like DVDs, music, and computer software, but it also gave the Library the ability to wave its magical copyright wand and make certain DRM cracks legal for three years at a time.
This tim...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: first, to "jailbreak" a mobile device, such as an iPhone, where DRM is used to prevent phone owners from running software of their own choosing; second, to allow video remix artists to br...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation drove three deep wedges into the US prohibition on breaking DRM today. EFF had applied to the Copyright Office to grant exemptions permitting the cracking of DRM in three cases: first, to "jailbreak" a mobile device, such as an iPhone, where DRM is used to prevent phone owners from running software of their own choosing; second, to allow video remix artists to br...
Filed under: Internet , P2P In what will surely become a landmark case -- or at least a massive thorn in the MPAA and RIAA's clubbed, pygmy feet -- a judge has ruled that bypassing DRM via hacking, reverse engineering or any other means is not in itself illegal.
The case itself ruled that General Electric, in using hacked security dongles to repair some uninterruptible power supplies pro...
- avagy amikor a feltörhetetlen kód találkozik a bevehetetlen blöffel - Az Index-címlapján szerepel hancu beszámolója az Ekönyv napról - vagyis a Txtr és az Adobe ingyenes termékbemutatójáról. Hancu írása látszólag szkeptikus, ám ennek ellenére szépen visszamondja a propagandaanyagot, mint egy memoritert. Megtudhatjuk, hogy az ekönyvek “a teljes könyvpiacból már 12 százalékot ...
Canada has planned on releasing a revised copyright modernization bill for too long and finally, the suspense is over. The bill has been passed and should get overwhelming response from software pirates and anti-DRM activists all over the world.
The new bill has legalized bypassing of DRM and has created many loopholes which can be easily exploited to create legalized copies of protected materia...
That’s exactly right. [via Reddit ]
Blizzard supremo Frank Pearce has told VideoGamer.com , “We need our development teams focused on content and cool features, not anti-piracy technology.”
It accompanies the announcement that StarCraft II’s single-player mode will not require constant online connection to Blizzard’s Battle.net. Describing DRM as “a losing battle”, Pearce states that their company is far more interested in creati...
The FCC has given Hollywood permission to activate the "Selective Output Control" technologies in your set-top box. These are hidden flags that allow the MPAA to deactivate parts of your home theater depending on what you're watching. And it sucks. As Dan Gillmor notes , "Fans of old TV science fiction will remember the Outer Limits. Given Hollywood's victory today at the FCC -- they'll be able t...
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H.264 Is A Codec, Flash Is A Platform: One Can't Kill Off The Other
Over the weekend I read another few dozen articles on the whole Apple and Adobe debate and probably read through a thousand comments. Some of the posts I read were really good, but far too many people are comparing codecs (H.264, VP8), platforms (Flash) and languages (HTML5) as if they are all the same thing.
There are lots of...