This is sad isn’t it. Turns out a major Belgian newspaper called De Morgen ripped some guys pictures about the Burning Man festival off his Flickr foto gallery without paying, or even contacting him. This kind of stuff is extra sad because a newspaper should damn well be aware of things like copyright violations and [...]
You probably heard about this by now but the Google subpoena is a real bitch. So the government wants to invade the privacy of every American, and I’m pretty sure non-Americans such as myself as well by getting search query information concerning kiddy porn. I can’t say I don’t like them fighting that smut though, [...]
Remember that cool amen narrative sample in that Fucknose set I talked about here? Of course you don’t, but that doesn’t matter, I just came across the whole thing, a history of the Winstons “Amen Brother” break. Can I Get An Amen? is an audio installation that unfolds a critical perspective of perhaps the most [...]
September 9, 2004 – 20:23
Something scary I read on Wired today : A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that rap artists should pay for every musical sample included in their work � even minor, unrecognisable snippets of music. Though the article focuses mainly on rap artists, who are making big bucks using unknown samples from older funk (or whatever) [...]
This is amazing, picked it up from slashdot The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by everybody’s favorite senator, Orrin Hatch, is moving to outlaw P2P entirely by making it illegal to produce such applications. The plan is to make p2p apps illegal in The States because they “indice” copyright violation. It’s like WTF!? What kind of [...]
So the Beastie Boys have a new album out, which I was looking into getting myself a copy, since I already have most of their other albums, and I’ve always liked their fun approach to hip-hop. It turns out that their latest CD however contains MacroVisions CDS-200 DRM technology which has “features” that stop me [...]
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