“The technical term for this is “eating your seed corn” (a less technical term might be “acting like a titanic asshole”). If kids are read to, they grow up to be readers, and they buy books. If kids don’t get the reading habit, they won’t grow up to buy books and writers will starve.”
Bo sells a t-shirt that says “Eat More Kale” from his home in rural Vermont. Titanic chicken sandwich chain Chick-Fil-A claims that this shirt infringes on their trademark for the slogan “Eat Mor (sic) Chikin’ (sic).” They’ve demanded that Bo shut down and turn over his website to them. Rather…
Rick Dakan sez, “Last fall, Mob Rules Games let voters choose their project, and they picked the turn-based haunted house game, Haunts: The Manse Macabre. The trio of indie developers, Geek Mafia author Rick Dakan, programmer Jonathan Wills, and artist Austin McKinnley have been working on it ever…
My latest _Locus_ colum, “Music: The Internet’s Original Sin,” asks why music copyright is such a hot potato on the Internet, even in the post-DRM age, when most tunes are $0.99 on Amazon in MP3. The short answer: music’s ancient compact is not entirely compatible with contemporary commerce, and…
REVOLUTION 2011: The People Rise up Against The Illuminati New World Order 2012 (by ChemTrailSkys)
A proposed anti-copying extension for the WC3’s standard for HTML5 has been submitted by representatives of Google, Microsoft and Netflix. The authors take pains to note that this isn’t “DRM” — because it doesn’t attempt to hide keys and other secrets from the user — but in a mailing list…
“The technical term for this is “eating your seed corn” (a less technical term might be “acting like a titanic asshole”). If kids are read to, they grow up to be readers, and they buy books. If kids don’t get the reading habit, they won’t grow up to buy books and writers will starve.”
“The US is structurally denying Megaupload the chance to put up a fair fight.
“We are refused access to the evidence that clears us, we are refused funds to pay our lawyers, we are refused to pick the lawyers we want to represent us and have any chance for a fair trial,” Dotcom says…”
