* this site is in very early development. please excuse any broken or missing features. * best viewed on firefox. view:   popular   all   tag: copyright   [add view (must be logged in)] open letter to lily allen criticizes her anti-filesharing rhetoric in a parody of her song   53 views  [1] posted by nir on Sep 26 2009 7:39pm tags:   music   parody   lily allen   copyright   inferred tags:   funny   1 comments Once Again, DMCA Protects Online Video Sites   43 views  [1] posted by Ortali on Sep 16 2009 11:48am tags:   news   copyright   yesterday, a los angeles court judge ruled in favor of the video hosting site, "veoh", citing the safe harbor exclusion of the DMCA... 0 comments student sues amazon for erasing his homework along with copy of george orwell's 1984   66 views  [1] posted by nir on Jul 31 2009 4:11pm tags:   news   kindle   copyright   books   1984   inferred tags:   amazon   the homework was in the form of footnotes attached to the copy of 1984, which amazon recently erased from purchasers' kindles without warning when they were notified it was being distributed online in violation of its copyright. jeff bezos had already apologized for the affair, and this seems to cement the notion amazon will refrain from remotely deleting any more kindle books in the future. 0 comments copyright laws threaten our online freedom   68 views  [1] posted by Ortali on Jul 09 2009 2:39am tags:   copyright   pirate party   christian engström, member of the EU parliament pirate party explains why copyright law is a slippery slope into the invasion of public privacy...and the destruction of culture. 0 comments french constitutional council denies internet 3 strikes ruling   68 views  [1] posted by Ortali on Jun 11 2009 7:12pm tags:   news   copyright   france   upholding the basic human rights of "presumption of innocence" and "freedom of speech", the french constitutional council put the kibosh on the french government's efforts to criminalize filesharing. now if only they would stop the scpp and sacem from suing non-native companies in france! 0 comments Sony Pictures CEO calls for "guardrails for the internet" to protect copyrighted content   74 views  [1] posted by nir on May 31 2009 5:03am tags:   opinion   copyright   while the article itself is rather bothersome, the comments following are rather informative and enlightened. as is the case with one poster who cites Robert Heinlein on the topic of corporations: "There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back." or another poster who refers to Tim O'Reilly's idea of piracy as progressive taxation: "Basically, copying is good for artists who don't already sell huge numbers. Yes, Metallica takes a hit from copying. On the other hand, every other band in the world that you've never heard of is helped by copying. Unknown artists don't worry about piracy, they worry about obscurity. No one cares about us enough to bother to steal our art." 0 comments The IT Crowd: Anti-piracy ad   83 views  [1] posted by nir on Apr 27 2009 2:22am tags:   video   funny   the it crowd   copyright   inferred tags:   tv   0 comments related tags news [3] new tags mr. rogers michael vick time travel [2] large hadron collider [2] vince vaughn higgs boson [2] big bang theory felicia day the guild carl sagan super mario national geographic aqua pavarotti paintings alyssa monks patton oswalt social science san francisco internet memes popular tags funny [71] video [68] tv [27] games [20] music [16] news [14] interview [9] the onion [8] copyright [7] movies [7] politics [7] science [7] cats [7] parody [6] comics [6] obama [5] amazon [5] kindle [5] israel [5] old [4] pictures [4] opinion [4] jewish [4] conan o'brien [3] psp [3] star trek [3] stephen colbert [3] zero punctuation [3] art [3] the daily show with jon stewart [3] animals [3] jandrew edits [3] michael phelps [3] swearing [3] web comics [3] louis ck [2] hitler [2] christian bale [2] animation [2] colbert report [2] levar burton [2] higgs boson [2] real time with bill maher [2] technology [2] reading rainbow [2] rock band [2] gore vidal [2] whitest kids u know [2] large hadron collider [2] porn [2]