08:09 PM
Mother Jones mag - "Intellectual property"'s worst excesses: "Cory Doctorow:
Mother Jones, a left-wing magazine, has published a Harpers-Index-style guide to copyright's worst excesses; it's notable that this week both they and their ideological opponents at the libertarian Cato Institute have both published material supporting the copyfight. It's truly a nonpartisan fight:
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A DAY AFTER Senator Orrin Hatch said 'destroying their machines' might be the only way to stop illegal downloaders, unlicensed software was discovered on his website.
BILL GATES had the 11-million-image Bettmann Archive buried 220 feet underground. Archivists can access only the 2% that was first digitized.
AMONG THE 16,000 people thus far sued for sharing music files was a 65-year-old woman who, though she didn't own downloading software, was accused of sharing 2,000 songs, including Trick Daddy's 'I'm a Thug.' She was sued for up to $150,000 per song.
MICROSOFT UK held a contest for the best film on 'intellectual property theft'; finalists had to sign away 'all intellectual property rights' on 'terms acceptable to Microsoft.'
(Thanks, Dave!)
(Via Boing Boing.)
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