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LifestreamEpson has settled with several 3rd party suppliers in the UK, Germany and the U.S, forcing them to cease the online sale of ink cartridge refills. Apparently, printer manufacturers are fond of their business model which amounts to hiding the costs, selling cheap printers and hiking ink refill prices. Once again, the system is protecting [...]
Archive for the 'Copywrong' Category
So, I don’t believe anyone has failed to notice that U.S. is pondering souping up the its DMCA restrictions with a barrage of new proposals (CNet). The proposed law, among other things:
Permits wiretaps in investigations of copyright crimes, trade secret theft and economic espionage. It would establish a new copyright unit inside the FBI and [...]
Due to complaints, a $5 million lawsuit and a factual inability to actually protect their software, Ubisoft has decided to drop Starforce in favor of an “alternative” system that hopefully is less intrusive. Hopefully, others will follow suit.
And makes not so veiled threats against British resellers. Also notes that every naked PC sold is an opportunity missed to bundle as much crap as possible to hike the price.
The Coalition Against Biopiracy has released its Captain Hook Awards for Biopiracy 2006. For the record, “biopiracy”
refers to the monopolization (usually through intellectual property) of genetic resources and traditional knowledge or culture taken from peoples or farming communities that developed and nurtured those resources.
The awards include but are not limited to:
Most Shameful Act of Biopiracy: [...]
Engadget notes that the U.S. government has expressed support for Apple. Because obviously, anything else would be respecting consumer rights.
Personally I think this is an important step that France is taking. Digital music should play everywhere, no matter where you bought it and what sort of player you have. We don’t want a balkanized market, [...]
Wired has really done their homework this time, diving into Swedish P2P file sharing culture in an exciting new piece. Sweden’s unofficial goodwill ambassadors over at the Pirate Bay are of course the center of attention but they also cover the newly formed Pirate Party as well as the usual parroting drivel from the woefully [...]
BBC went seriously overboard with the Friday edition of Newsnight, launching into a blistering tirade against the Bittorrent protocol and its relationship to, listen to this, terrorists and pedophiles. Also they insisted that what little non-conspiracy, nonmalignant end-of-the-world usage there is left was simply “theft.” And as evidence for this they brought in ex-CIA spook [...]
MPAA has launched a new legal volley aimed at what seems to be indexing sites.
In all, nine indexing sites have been targeted (Isohunt.com, BTHub.com and TorrentBox.com all owned by one individual.) BitTorrent: ISOHunt, TorrentSpy, NiteShadow.com, BTHub.com and TorrentBox.com; eDonkey2000: Ed2k-It.com; Newsgroups: NZB-Zone.com, BinNews.com and DVDRs.net.
However, according to Slyck, the MPAA forgot to tell the site [...]
Terry Gilliam has little sympathy for Hollywood studios, which he claims have consistently hampered his creative efforts, and he thus somewhat spitefully encourages copyright infringement. As long as you do it in style.
“It’s hard for me to worry about the studios losing money. I’m not very sympathetic to their money problems, because they certainly haven’t [...]
