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• Free Music Doesn’t Mean Devalued Music

  
  Unity Behind Diversity — Authority: 98
  Mike Masnick does a great job of explaining why some libertarian and "free market" types freak out when they see a zero dollar price tag . The concept of zero took ages for societies to even recognize, nevermind understand. Its not a number, but the absence of a number. A stumbling block for mathematics and physics ...
  4 days ago

• Stop punishing fans and start selling to them

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Kicking file sharers off the internet wont help the entertainment industry sell more products writes Mike Masnick.
  6 days ago

• Another Wild OverReach by the Guru of Free

  
  Stuff Channel — Authority: 106
  I really enjoy reading the Techdirt blog mostly because it’s fun to watch Mike Masnick tie himself in knots trying to prove things. He is forever posting very speculative things, drawing conclusions that just aren’t obvious, and then to solidify these masterpieces of logic, he then quotes and links them in later ...
  1 week ago

• Musician Making A Living With Forty Committed True Fans

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  A year and a half ago, we wrote about Kevin Kelly’s theory that to be a success as a content creator, you just need 1,000 “true fans.” These were the ultra-committed fans. The fans who would follow you to the end of the world and purchase whatever you came out with. And — more importantly — they’ll ...
  1 week ago

• Firebowls, Copyright And Crowdfunding (Oh My)

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  A bunch of people have been sending in John T. Unger’s story, claiming that someone who copied his artwork is now suing him in federal court over copyrights. The general sentiment from the submitters, it seems, is to support Unger’s position. I avoided writing about this for a while, because the story is ...
  1 week ago

• But Wait, Wasn’t Muni-Fiber Supposed To Take Away Incentive For Private Fiber?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  Over the past few years, there have been numerous lawsuits by telcos against various municipalities that have decided to launch municipal fiber broadband projects. Most of these lawsuits have failed — but the main argument from the telcos is that it’s unfair to have to compete against the government, and it would ...
  1 week ago

• Arizona Court Says Metadata On Public Records Is Public As Well

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  An interesting ruling in the Arizona Supreme Court found that the metadata on a public record should be public as well — so people could, conceivably, look at who created certain documents and when they were created. While that might not seem like a big deal, as the article link above describes, plenty of ...
  1 week ago

• Washington Post Calls For Federal Funding Of Newspapers?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  Just days after we wrote about a study that showed more government funding of the press leads to less reporting on government corruption , along comes the Washington Post with an editorial saying it’s time to have the federal government fund more journalism . I wonder how Watergate would have turned out if the ...
  1 week ago

• YouTube Taking Down Public Domain Works?

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 490
  from the make-it-stop dept From TechDirt In the past couple of days I’ve received emails from two separate people who found that public domain material they put on YouTube was taken down to companies claiming ownership of the work. In both cases, the stories seem pretty ridiculous, and for all the complaining ...
  1 week ago

• YouTube Taking Down Public Domain Works?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  In the past couple of days I’ve received emails from two separate people who found that public domain material they put on YouTube was taken down to companies claiming ownership of the work. In both cases, the stories seem pretty ridiculous, and for all the complaining that copyright holders do about how awful it ...
  1 week ago

• Lawsuit Against Cable Companies For Not Offering A La Carte Channels Dismissed

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  Two years ago, a class action lawsuit was filed against the cable companies for not offering a la carte channels . This is an issue that gets people up in arms — even as studies have suggested that mandated a la carte would cost consumers more (though, others dispute those findings). On the whole, I think that ...
  1 week ago

• Twitter Banning Satirical ‘Fake’ Versions Of Politicians?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  It’s certainly become popular on blogs and on Twitter to create “fake” satirical versions of various famous people. These are usually humorous (or they try to be) over-the-top representations of these celebrities. Usually, they are quite obvious, even to the point of saying that they are “the fake ...
  1 week ago

• Are Kids Not Going Into Computer Science Because Their Parents Want Them To Be Sports Stars?

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  There’s been some talk lately about how come not as many students are taking computer science in school, and someone over at Information Management online is suggesting that it’s all your parents fault for encouraging you to be a baseball star or a CEO or the next American Idol. This seems to be based on ...
  1 week ago

• Surprise: Sequoia To Open Source Evoting Code

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  Sequoia Voting Systems had been one of the “big three” e-voting providers, along with Diebold (Premiere) and ES&S. All three companies were notorious for massive amounts of secrecy and many, many, many reports of faulty machines with weak security . Sequoia’s biggest problem — which showed up in ...
  1 week ago

• Study: More Gov’t Funding Of The Press, Less Political Corruption Reporting

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  There’s been some talk of having the government bail out newspapers or somehow fundamentally support newspapers. Of course, for good reason, that scares a lot of people who believe that news organizations (not just newspapers, mind you) play an important role in acting as a government corruption watchdog. So ...
  2 weeks ago

• EFF Launches Takedown Hall Of Shame

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  With so many organizations trying to use copyright and trademark law to take content offline, the EFF is announcing the launch of its new Takedown Hall Of Shame , highlighting “the most egregious examples of takedown abuse.” You’ll recognize the names on the list — as every one of them we’ve written ...
  2 weeks ago

• Shield Law? What Shield Law? Police Just Get Reporter’s Phone Records

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  While there are still debates over proposals for a federal shield law to protect journalists from having to reveal sources, California already has a shield law for journalists , but what good does it do if authorities totally ignore it. It seems that may have happened in the case of TMZ’s Harvey Levin and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• UK Law Enforcement Tells UK Gov’t: Please Don’t Kick File Sharers Offline

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  Those who believe that kicking people off the internet based on accusations of file sharing is an affront to basic due process and civil rights have perhaps an unexpected ally: UK law enforcement and intelligence services have come out against Peter Mandelson’s “three strikes and your off the internet” plan. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Netflix Claims Americans Don’t Want Standalone Streaming Movie Service

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  Netflix’s streaming movie service has been pretty successful according to most of the analyses I’ve seen, but it’s still tied to the DVD rental service. So it’s a bit surprising to find out that, while Netflix is readying a streaming-only service, it won’t be available in the US because (according to CEO ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chamber Of Commerce Sues Yes Men; Someone Just Gave Protestors A Lot More Attention

  
  The-Informer — Authority: 157
  While we weren’t sure that the EFF was correct in suggesting the Yes Men’s fake U.S. Chamber of Commerce website was a parody, we did think that it was rather short-sighted of the CoC to try to takedown the site, since it would only serve to give the Yes Men and their anti-CoC campaign more attention. ...
  2 weeks ago

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