Category Archives: Copyright

Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV

Mindjack – Piracy is Good? How Battlestar Galactica Killed Broadcast TV Very interesting and thorough article about recent trends in downloading television programming. From the article: Now we have a paradox: the invention of an incredibly powerful mechanism for the … Continue reading

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New Senate Broadcast Flag Bill Would Freeze Fair Use

EFF: DeepLinks From the article: Draft legislation making the rounds in the U.S. Senate gives us a preview of the MPAA and RIAA’s next target: your television and radio. (Please write your Senator about this!) You say you want the … Continue reading

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Reinventing TV

Release 1.0 / Publication / Reinventing TV: Network TV Signs Off. Networked TV Logs On. Scott Kirsner write in an older Release 1.0 about Networked TV. It is a good article, too bad it costs so much. From the abstract: … Continue reading

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The Future of Independent Media

GBN: The Future of Independent Media I thought I linked to this a while ago but I couldn’t find it recently when recommending it to a student. Andrew Blau writes a great essay contemplating Independent Media in the face of … Continue reading

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Massive Media, distilled

Future Of Television Is Self-Service, P2P Distributed Media Consumption – Robin Good’s Latest News Robin Good edits and re-presents Dan Melinger’s Massive Media thesis.

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NYC Grassroots Media Coalition Conference – February 11

NYC GMC

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stay free, article roundup

Stay Free! Daily: This Month in New York City Critical Mass OR How Much Does It Cost the City to Run One of Those Police Copters All Night? – Story of what Critical Mass has become. Bikers vs. Police. Messed … Continue reading

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stay free asks for permission to sing Happy Birthday.. No response. No surprise.

Stay Free! Daily: Taking the permission society seriously I wonder if she were to video tape it and put it up on the site (evidence of the deed), would they come knocking?

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Music publishers going after lyrics sites

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Song sites face legal crackdown Grumble grumble.. increased sales, free information.. grumble. dumb move.. obviously people want this, where do you find it legitimately. grumble.

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Content for P2P about P2P (almost)

THE.SCENE From the FAQ: Q: What is “The Scene” in real life? A: The Scene is the piracy underground where 99% of pirated movies, songs, video games, etc start out. There, thousands of pirates upload, download, and trade files (often … Continue reading

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