Misunderstanding Copyright Law And Ruining Everyone’s Fun. that “we didn’t start the fire” parody for bubble2.0 had to be taken down cause it uses a copyright photo and the photographer threatened to sue. some people really suck.


Larry Lessig at TED 2007

DEFENDING THE PIG - DJ Rupture on the closure of Oink. “If sharing copywritten music without paying for it were legal, than Oink was the best music website in the world.”

BBC NEWS | Huge pirate music site shut down. i’m amazed oink lasted this long.

Slashdot | Texas Family ‘Sues Creative Commons’. welcome to the 21st century you idiots.

NTP, the patent trolls who robbed RIM of over $600M last year, are now suing the four major US wireless carriers. what douche bags.

Lawrence Lessig is changing his academic and activist focus. he’s going to start focusing on “corruption”, in however he defines that. via ram.

MediaMaster. yet another “upload all your music and listen to it anywhere” site. the demo video makes it look pretty cool. how are any of these going to legally (and financially) stay afloat?

Harvey Danger - Why We’re Releasing Our New Album for Free on the Internet. i didn’t know they were on barsuk.

Steve Jobs - Thoughts on Music. is it just me, or did he just politely tell just about everyone to fuck off?

Mixtape DJ arrested - NYTimes. the riaa has their head so far up their ass.

ALTERNATIVE FREEDOM - trailer. hold on, shouldn’t the whole movie be free too?