Copyright

When I was a medic in the Army, I received a memo regarding the fact we were to no longer permitted to refer to the Heimlich Maneuver as such and, instead, we were to refer to the technique as “abdominal thrusts”. When I inquired as to why, I was told that the good doctor [...]

I am rather stunned and even more skeptical to hear form a P2Pnet article that the RIAA may be dropping its massive sham litigation campaign. The P2Pnet article references this Wall Street Journal article, which states the lawsuit campaign may end. So all is good now right?
I doubt it. As the P2Pnet article points [...]

Thanks to Ray Beckerman for bringing the Expert Witness Fund to my notice via a post post over at his blog.

I was unaware that the donations to the fund were tax deductible. This, however, is a defense fund I am all in favor of.

Another great "rightful" organization to keep in mind’ is the EFF. [...]

8 December 2008 POD - Ian James

Today I chose"Time Keeps Slipping Away" by Ian James. I found him over at Pod Safe Audio.

I also promised to let you know when I heard more on the Santa Claus Live Show. Every day from 5-11PM EST/2-8PMPST from now until Christmas! See ya there!

Thanks for [...]

The p2pnet post and it begins with "Could a new site buying and selling ‘used’ mp3s possibly be a honeypot set up by the RIAA?" I am reading it and, in the back of my head, I am thinking if this "is some kind of hoax?". Bopaboo, as the author makes known, is [...]

Personally, I think that the “explicit lyrics” are an artist’s choice but I like being informed enough to make the choice to mostly stick with SFW material. I think we should take it up a level.
Seriously though, if the Surgeon General can put warning labels on tobacco products to protect our health, why can’t [...]

This is worth a quick post. Joel Tenenbaum who is standing up for himself against the RIAA, now has Facebook Group for support. (I mentioned the Dream Team of Witnesses before.)

Although I am more of a Geeks! person than a Facebook person, I made sure I became the 252nd member of the [...]

3 December 2008 POD - Chris Ayer

Today’s pick is the winner in the folk category in the 2006 John Lennon Songwriting Contest. I chose "Evaporate" by Chris Ayer. I found him over at Podsafe Music Network.

As I have mentioned before, one of the most rewarding things about doing a podcast is the correspondence I [...]

I have told you many times it will never stop. Like a nightmare that you can’t awake from the Gestapo RIAA continues its sham litigation reign of terror. This time it is after nineteen-year-old Ciara Sauro. She, as do almost all, says she did nothing wrong. The girl’s mother, according to P2P, [...]

Good Day Readers. For any of you who have been here before, you know how I feel about DRM or, as I call it, "Dumb Retarded Mismanagement". (For those of you who may have been off with Rip Van Wrinkle, it really stands for Digital Rights Management.) There are many, many reasons [...]

26 November 2008 POD - Chillerstadt

Today I went with "Where You Are" by Chillerstadt. I found them over at Podsafe Music Network.

This band also has some interesting videos at their web site.

Thanks for reading and listening.

Garage Band

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Earlier this week, I posted an editorial about how I was getting bored with the suit counter-suit thing regarding the RIAA. This case, delayed, hopefully due to good legal fear, is far from that. The suit involving Tenenbaum is shaping up like a Perry Mason episode.

It is the list of defense witnesses that [...]

I have often believed that it stood for "Racketeering Idiots Association of Absurdity". The RIAA is in another RICO class action suite. This is the second case that Ray Beckerman is aware of.

Mr. Beckerman states that the claims include; RICO, Fraud, Conspiracy, Trespass, Prima Facie Tort, and violation of the Computer Fraud & [...]

This is just kewl. Jonathan Coulton, likely most known for his tune “Code Monkey,” is doing very pro-CC thing. I have had the good fortune to shoot a few e-mails back and forth with Mr. Coulton. He is a very likable musician and is very much into the Creative Commons philosophy.
According to this [...]

W00t! w00t! w00t!… Seems that sanity has prevailed in this one case at least. A whining baby who seems to have an identity crisis and has lacked a hit song for over a decade has been just lost to a cute, adorable "dancing baby", Holden Lentz. (Source)

Universal had claimed that it was not [...]

Good day readers,
Last week was hectic as Hades for me at work. I almost missed this. I promised to at least keep you abreast of the "Pro-IP" Bill. If my memory is correct, I first mentioned the act here in August. It seems the bill has cleared the Senate Judiciary [...]

It is one of the newest words in the English language and today is a great day to use it. So here I go.. WOOT! I realize that so very often bring only bad news here when I discuss the RIAA, MPAA and copyright issues. Today it is not the case.

Back on [...]

Yesterday, I got off on a bit of a rant about how I felt about some recent happenings regarding my the the most dislike company in America. I refer to them as the Racketeering Idiots Association of Absurdity but most of you know them as the RIAA.

The post received a few comments and I [...]

Back when I first mentioned the "dancing baby case", I promised to mention if I heard anymore. For now, this is all I have at the moment but it looks like the case is going to proceed. (In my opinion, boycott-RIAA is a pretty decent source.)

I have a hectic day at work today [...]

I spent the past few evenings, intentionally isolating myself from distraction, at the local library. I had done so because I had a briefcase full of printed documents regarding numerous RIAA cases. I am not going to delve into those matters quite yet but it does seem that the courts have knocked a [...]