RIAA

In an amazing turn of events, the MPAA has managed to shut down the municipal wi-fi network in a small city in Ohio. In what might be called  the most outrageous event in that state since Kent State in 1970, another egregious miscarriage of justice has occurred.
The slashdot article references another article in boingboing -
“The [...]

The MPAA and RIAA are one note wonders. Whenever something goes wrong, the customer is the one to blame. It could never be their ridiculous practices, the poor excuse for quality content, or their own gross stupidity.
Or could it?
This time, it’s actually worse. Not only does paramount Studios want to blame the customers, they want [...]

Though I am not in that preferred 18-34 demographic any longer, I find that those I interact with are like myself (that is, regardless of age) and still purchase music on CD. It is something a bit more tangible than a download – we that have been around no how easily hard drives crash, and [...]

The important business of the day seems to get swept under the rug when something comes up that is so inane that everyone can agree upon the fact that it really doesn’t need to be adopted – except for the Congress.
A new law, concerning P2P file operations, is coming up in the House, and might [...]

Almost everyone I know hates the RIAA, which is odd, because I don’t know that many people who should have reason to hate the association. Perhaps the hate stems from the many stories that are circulating, many proven true, about the shoddy way people suspected of actions not in accordance with the whims of the [...]

Looks as though Jammie Thomas got jammed up good this time. The jury came back after less than a day of deliberation, with an award of almost $2 million dollars, or about $80K per song she was said to have lifted.
This is amazing! I was following a couple of blog posts over the last 3 [...]

Vowing not to get jammed up again, Jammie Thomas is seemingly ready for her new trial with the RIAA. with a new tact, and a new attorney; it does seem as though the other trial never took place, as all parties seem fresh as before the first foray into the courtroom.
This time Thomas will (so [...]

After seeing the article on ZDNet about the RIAA, and the cooperation by AT&T, I remembered back in the bad old days of the Bush era, when AT&T was also the only one to bend us over for the NSA’s warrantless searches of our data. Is it any different now? AT&T seems to forget that [...]

It’s one thing when an entity makes a concerted effort to change something. You can be for or against the effort. But when the company makes an effort that appears to thwart the efforts it makes on another front, the public is left wondering who is at the helm of the ship.
from Tech Dirt
Google Accused [...]

So says the arbiter of the airwaves. see article
It probably is too late to change this, and February 17 will be one of those asterisk days in history. People will say they remember the tumult and furor years later, and relate it to their children as part of an object lesson.
There is probably little chance [...]

It’s strange what you find when looking for something else. I came upon a site where the owner was giving a run down of the problems he has had with his Dell laptop.
He was trying desperately to get something done for his website, and after some software manipulation, decided that the problem was hardware related. [...]

After suffering from the removal of the entire alt.* hierarchy from Verizon’s newsservers just today, I now see that the Governor and Attorney General of California have gone soft in the head also.
Why? It could be obtaining political capital with the religious right, but it may just be stupidity. I would not count either one [...]