Ars Technica alerted me to a very heartening story about a Harvard Law class defending a Boston University student against an RIAA filesharing lawsuit. These students are the future of the legal profession, and they themselves understand how technology can impact the law, regardless of the tactics the RIAA use in the future. The two [...]
The future of the Law, Whether the RIAA Likes It or Not
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
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Comcast and AT&T the first to fall?
January 28th, 2009 · No Comments
It looks like Comcast and AT&T are the first ISPs to fall to the coercive RIAA. The RIAA has finally realized that suing thousands of their customers is bad for business, and has decided to change their tactics. They now want to pay ISPs to be the cops of the internet, taking people offline who [...]
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Copyright reform dead?
January 23rd, 2009 · No Comments
With another Obama administration official coming straight from the Biden/RIAA wing of the Democratic party, it appears less and less likely that the Obama administration will be anywhere near as consumer friendly as even the Bush administration was. I think that the odds are better than average that we may look back at Kevin Martin’s [...]
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