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A Message to a Friend Explaining My View on Intellectual Property

I think that IP is one of the largest issues going and to make it worse, people don't know anything about it. IP is used to create artificial monopolies, like MLB saying people can't disseminate the facts (which are currently not part of IP) of a baseball without authorization. Read more [...]

Where is Capitalism Anyway

The concept of the free market is that those who can't survive in business are pushed out of the market, however through intellectual property management any company that has established itself can remain on artificial life-support by abusing the system through lawsuits that either give failing businesses a cut of their competition's income or by blocking that competition altogether. Read more [...]

Ten Things I Hate About Comandments

The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) are trying to make it illegal to copy a DVD in anyway, in fact they don't even want people to playing a DVD movie without the DVD in the drive. Read more [...]

Electric Slide part 2

It isn't important because the electric slide is a dance that we all need rights to (I would gladly wave that right if we can abolish the dance step from all history), but because the precedent that will be set. Read more [...]

Look What That Wacky DMCA is Doing Now!

CNet reports: Indeed, Richard Silver, who filed the copyright for the Electric Slide in 2004, said on one of his Web pages that the DeGeneres Show had been putting up a legal fight as he tried to get compensation for a segment that aired in February 2006 in which actress Teri Hatcher and other dancers performed the popular wedding shuffle. Read more [...]

Why Microsoft is Dumb

Microsoft's new operating system is called Vista. When Microsoft puts limits on how many times you can transfer the operating system (only once) from an old computer to a new one, or even outright deny any transfer (for computers shipped with Vista) it rings to me more in the key of greed. Read more [...]