Tag Archives: free culture

In doing a bit of reading for yesterday’s post about Twitter, I happened across a brief writeup of the Mozilla Messaging project, in which the author had linked to this picture (and properly cited it by Creative Commons guidelines, no less!). We could communicate by Bill Stilwell. License: Think about it.

Over the past few years I’ve read more articles and papers on remix culture than I’m willing to admit. But after all the bullshit, I’m proud to have encountered a real, tangible example of it in the wild. On YouTube there’s a still-frame video posting of a song called “The Device Has Been Modified” by … Continue reading

The music industry is on the rack, growing up the hard way. Their former pets are working the levers. There are people in the world—myself included, of course—who view this process as long overdue, who are pleased to see the turn of the tables, the despot stretched across his own rack. Check out this particular … Continue reading

I should probably start tagging a lot of my posts “boy-i-wish-were-a-lawyer.” I haven’t introduced that one yet, but I just might sometime soon. Just last week, a U.S. federal judge ruled that the court could not demand that a man accused of transporting child pornography across state lines divulge the passphrase for his encrypted hard … Continue reading

I just read that Flickr has passed the 2 billion milestone in photo uploads. That’s definitely a lot of photos, and while most are probably blurry pics of somebody’s cat, the 2 billionth is actually quite pretty: So super, Flickr is more popular than Jesus. On some levels it’s absolutely awesome to be a part … Continue reading

Just read an article that says Canadian police are now officially looking the other way on copyright infringement for personal use. That’s right, you can download all you want, and the cops won’t come a-knockin’. Turns out that ensuring the cash flow of major corporations just doesn’t contribute to the welfare of society as a … Continue reading

Check this out: DIMMU BORGIR Accuses German Rapper Of ‘Stealing’ Band’s Music  Now that’s golden. The article even has embedded YouTube videos, so you can “decide for yourself” whether the infringement accusation has merit. And since the headline itself isn’t enough material for a blogpost, I leave you with this:

I don’t have enough time to make a post about the concert last night before my next class. My bandwidth also hasn’t been sufficient to get pictures up yet, so that’ll have to wait. In the meantime, I wanted to throw out an article in the New York Times about students at Brown University getting … Continue reading