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Radiohead recently announced that fans could pick the price they’d pay for Radiohead’s new album, In Rainbows.
To check this out and support this experiment, I signed up for the download-only version and chose to pay $.99 per song, i.e., $9.90 for the 10-song album. (I used a currency-converter to figure out how much to pay […]

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William Patry, one of the drafters of 17 U.S.C. 1101 and 18 U.S.C. 2319A, the civil and criminal provisions, respectively, of the “anti-bootlegging” statute, has a post on his blog defending the constitutionality of these statutes, both of which have recently been ruled unconstitutional, one by a district court in California (Kiss Catalog v. Passport […]

RealNetworks recently announced that their new RealPlayer with Harmony Technology would allow users to “Get your music anywhere. Transfer to any portable device” including Apple’s iPod. That sounds great for users, huh? Well, Apple doesn’t think so.
Apple’s so irked by the idea that users might have the freedom to buy music from someone other than […]

As was recently reported on Slashdot, Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced the INDUCE Act with this absurd floor speech which Ernest Miller has torn apart line-by-line. In response to Hatch, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has brilliantly illustrated how the INDUCE Act can and will be abused. They explain how under the INDUCE Act an agressive […]

This is troubling. See the rap video that people are talking about. It reminds me of one of the things that makes me so angry about the Bush rhetoric. He repeatedly says he is fighting against people “who hate freedom” and who “hate our liberty” and so on. That’s just idiotic on its face. No […]

New York Times is reporting that Downloading Music off P2P networks is legal under Canadian law. Problem is: uploading music is illegal under Canadian law. Simple point: There is an inherent contradiction in their position. At least a few people would have to be illegally uploading music in order to enable the perfectly legal downloading!
I […]

Oh my goodness. I have no idea who these people are or what they are up to, but this video/animation is mighty funny.

For no particular reason, I’d like to recommend to you maybe my favorite book. It’s a collection of short stories. I keep several paperback copies on hand in order to give to people who I think might read it. Charlotte is the story that I read by Earley first, and it is so well-crafted I […]