Last year, Viacom sued YouTube for a billion dollars over copyright infringement. The lawsuit is problematic and the premise is weak for many reasons, but that’s for another time. The recent news is that Google has filed its response to Viacom’s recent filings. Its defence has people talking about the […]
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(Warning: This will be a bit of a rant.) Old people don’t get Facebook. I’m not talking about the average not-so-tech savvy older relative you may have, but older folks in the tech industry itself. Today, Matt Assay missed the point. The primary problem with Facebook is not applications. The […]
I’ve attended a few panels on the music industry in the past few weeks. I listened to David “Click” Cox speak and answer questions at Long & McQuade a few weeks back (as part of the Big Schmooze, I believe), and I sat through a few music panels at the […]
TechCrunch has been covering the breaking news: Facebook is planning to release the infrastructure between the Facebook Platform as free software! Facebook, I knew you had it in you. Many older folks in the tech crowd view Facebook with much suspicion, if not considering it outright evil or Microsoft-like in […]
Confession: once you start watching a cappella videos on YouTube, it’s really hard to stop. And yes, it is 3am. This video, though, is a perfect example of why our copyright laws are terribly suited for encouraging artistic expression in the 21st century. This is way too good to be […]
Newspapers are being hit hard by digital technology. Like record companies, who are still struggling, their business models have become increasingly obsolete and they’re forced to adapt to the changes that the Internet brings about. There are lots of other ways to get news now. I don’t read newspapers anymore […]
Found this video via LondonTopic.ca explaining how scammers can tamper with PIN pads or card readers on ATMs.
I stumbled upon a cool music video last week by The Get Out Clause. What’s cool about it, you might ask? Well, they were tight on cash, so they decided to film it on Manchester’s CCTV video surveillance system and then obtain the video footage using the Freedom of Information […]
Trent Reznor gets it. The latest Nine Inch Nails album — The Slip — has been released online and it’s available entirely at no cost. It’s also, once again, licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license (almost free); the multi-tracks are available here. Reznor announces the album on his blog: […]