Month: April 2002

  • CNet reports on the efforts

    CNet reports on the efforts of new satellite radio providers to slap limits on wireless Internet which they claim will interfere with their broadcasts (though it apparently hasn’t yet). Previously: The BCC asks, “What if the net was as free as air?”; Sirius Satellite Radio Says: WAH! Stop It! 3/21/02

  • The SF Chronicle has a

    The SF Chronicle has a nice overview of the media industry’s current efforts to seize total control of copyright law and all technologies used for using and creating media.

  • Some intellectual property stuff: Lawmeme

    Some intellectual property stuff: Lawmeme — a pretty good law blog from the Yale Law School — has an annotated version of ZDNet’s interview with movie industry bossman Jack Valenti. Tellingly, the Valenti interview is entitled, “Terrorized by file swappers.” (oh, boo hoo, poor Jack. Can my interview be called “terrorized by greedy myopic corporate…

  • Friday’s mediageek radio show is

    Friday’s mediageek radio show is now on-line. It was a fun show, though I was a bit more nervous and off-kilter than usual because the program that comes on before mediageek (free speech radio news) wasn’t on due to more satellite errors, and because the station’s pledge drive began at 6:00 PM, immediately following the…

  • Info on the ‘zines featured on today’s mediageek radio show:

    Info on the ‘zines featured on today’s mediageek radio show: Food Geek #4 and The Assassin and the Whiner: Send $1 plus stamps to Carrie McNinch, PO Box 481051, Los Angeles, CA 90048 The Hungover Gourment, send $2 to P.O. Box 5531, Lutherville, MD 21095-5531 Hyperventilate #10, Lisa McKinley, 4616 Greenwood Place #1, Los Angeles,…

  • Want Unfiltered News from Palestine? Turn to Indymedia.

    Want Unfiltered News from Palestine? Turn to Indymedia. Even if the mainstream media like CNN and the BBC have been kicked out by the Israeli military, there are people in the occupied territories, and they can and will be journalists. Because it’s necessary. Go to http://jerusalem.indymedia.org — it will make you sad and angry. (thanks…

  • A cool tool for Internet-researchers

    A cool tool for Internet-researchers (as in people for whom the Internet is their object of study, not necessarily people who use the Internet to do research): Nethistory, “the most comprehensive directory of links (160+ and counting) to information about the history of the Internet, World Wide Web, Usenet, as well as related concepts such…

  • A revelation on independent content

    A revelation on independent content on the ‘net (?). While surfing about, I found this interview with G. Beato on Kottke.org. Beato is a veteran of the dead but beloved Suck, and currently authors Cooking with Bigfoot, an online, animated cooking show featuring “an aggressively bisexual, substance-abusing Sasquatch”. While discussing the decision of whether to…

  • And then the government’s mouthpiece

    And then the government’s mouthpiece is forced to admit the truth about the assassination our fair use rights. Dan Gilmour reports: “I’ve just come from the federal courthouse in San Jose, where government prosecutors essentially admitted that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act bans meaningful “fair use” rights for digitally produced content. You can thank Congress…

  • For those of us worried

    For those of us worried about copyright and fair use, the Electronic Frontier Foundation is running a weblog keeping tabs on the Broadcast Protection Discussion Group which is, “an obscure group of Hollywood studios and technology companies that are negotiating a “consensus” for any gadget or code that can touch the studios’ product. Once they’re…