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Copyright bill gives big media control

06/02/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Eric Pettifor A new copyright bill has been introduced into parliament today, Bill C-32. I nearly wrote “anti-copyright” bill because, while I like the original idea of copyright, most of what governments have done to it in recent decades has been to its detriment. The idea behind copyright was that all creative works belong […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Bill C-32, Canada, copyright, digital restriction management, digital rights management, DRM, intellectual property, Michael Geist

Don’t Copy That Flop

05/28/2010 by backofthebook.ca

By Eric Pettifor   Q: How difficult would it be for the copyright holder of a film to get the IP addresses of people sharing that film over bittorrent? A: Easy as pie. Here’s a portion of a screen capture from my bittorrent client, ktorrent, showing the ip addresses of people sharing a popular file […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, MPAA, p2p, piracy, RIAA

First strike

09/10/2008 by backofthebook.ca

isoHunt, a Canadian bittorrent site akin to The Pirate Bay, is making a preemptive strike against the Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA), our own little Canadian version of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). From TorrentFreak: As an act of self-defense, isoHunt has decided to sue the CRIA instead, and today Fung will file […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, CRIA, DMCA, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, online video, p2p, piracy, RIAA

The Fraud of “Intellectual Property”

06/17/2007 by backofthebook.ca

There is no such thing as “intellectual property.” Take copyright: if we are to look at creative works as property, then it is the property of the commons (that is, public domain), and copyright is simply a limited duration monopoly on works extended to creators as an incentive and reward. Patents likewise are of limited […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, DVDs, geeks, intellectual property, internet, online video, piracy, RIAA

Be Your Own Robin Hood

03/25/2007 by backofthebook.ca

Recently Slashdot posted a story about the RIAA suing a disabled man living on social security. For the most part, the Slashdot crowd is rabidly anti-RIAA, but one fellow commented that just because a person is disabled, it doesn’t mean that he can’t infringe copyright. I found this defense of the RIAA vs. a poor, […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: copyright, intellectual property, internet, p2p, piracy, RIAA

Avast ye, eh?

02/18/2007 by Single Lane Media

Avast ye, and listen well. Ol’ Joe Biden has turned his guns to North and is taking aim at our Great White Land o’ the Pirates, aye. Seems he and his Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus gave fair warning three years ago when they put us on a watch list, but e’en so we did not […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, digital restriction management, digital rights management, DRM, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, MPAA, p2p, piracy, RIAA

Naked Geeks

01/14/2007 by backofthebook.ca

Who are the 12 greatest computer geeks of all time? Can you put names to the following 12 clues? There will be an answer key at the end of this blog entry. Difference engine. AI test and work on defeating Nazi enigma encryption during WWII. In 1983, geeks 3 and 4 below received an award […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, copyright, geeks, green technology, intellectual property, naked geeks, RIAA, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak

Tech Predictions for 2007

12/31/2006 by backofthebook.ca

Can’t really put off the “tech predictions for 2007” bit much longer . . . Could do it tomorrow . . . No, let’s quit the boozing for a sec and just knock something off . . . Okay, I fearlessly predict that things will be the same as in 2006, but with bigger numbers. […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, computers, digital restriction management, digital rights management, intellectual property, Linux, OS/X, Windows

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