Has any musician ever lost a beef this drastically and totally? I’m suffering secondhand embarrassment for a multi-millionaire.
Hi, I’m Phil Nelson, a writer, developer, and audio-visual maker of stuff. I have been making stuff online for over 25 years. I run RetroStrange and Set Side B. Good to see you.
Blog Archives
Tag: law
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The Internet Archive Settles Lawsuit With Music Publishers
This doesn’t sound good but probably could have been worse. We may not know the details for a little over a month.
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Anti-Net-Neutrality “Fast Lanes” Are Bullshit
[Marco Arment with some strong language about the gross marketing campaign to rebrand the destruction of net neutrality as allowing ISPs to create “fast lanes”][link]:
>Be honest.
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>This is not building anything new — it’s discriminating and restricting what we already have.
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>This is not making anything faster — it’s allowing ISPs to selectively slow down traffic that they don’t strategically or financially benefit from, and only permit traffic from their partners to run at the speeds that everything runs at today.
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>It’s ostensibly the FCC’s job to see through this bullshit language and do what’s right for the country and the people, but only the fool who believed that ISPs are trying to build something beneficial here would believe that the FCC gives a damn about what’s best for American citizens.[link]: http://www.marco.org/2014/04/24/fast-lanes-are-bullshit “Anti-Net-Neutrality “Fast Lanes” Are Bullshit – Marco.org”
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Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules
[Ars Technica][link]:
>The Federal Communication Commission’s net neutrality rules were partially struck down today by the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, which said the Commission did not properly justify its anti-discrimination and anti-blocking rules.
I have an extreme and intense dislike for the FCC (an unconstitutional entity which has done nothing but make itself important and block my favorite artists from appearing on TV or radio) but I was just glad ANYONE was standing up to the cable companies on Net Neutrality. Looks like we’re going to have to do it on our own. Again.
[link]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/01/net-neutrality-is-half-dead-court-strikes-down-fccs-anti-blocking-rules/ “Net neutrality is half-dead: Court strikes down FCC’s anti-blocking rules | Ars Technica”
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Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government
[I doubt it’ll do much good, but I’m really glad to see Yahoo! trying *something*.][link]
[link]: http://yahoopolicy.tumblr.com/post/60753842342/yahoo-files-suit-demanding-greater-accountability-from “Yahoo Files Suit Demanding Greater Accountability from the U.S. Government | Yahoo Global Public Policy”
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New Zealand bans software patents
>[A major new patent bill, passed in a 117-4 vote by New Zealand’s Parliament after five years of debate, has banned software patents.][link]
This is great news for Kiwis. I really hope that their results inspire the similar movements in the US, UK, and elsewhere.
[link]: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/in-historic-vote-new-zealand-bans-software-patents/ “In historic vote, New Zealand bans software patents | Ars Technica”
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Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay
[Our children will look upon Guantanamo Bay with the same sheepish, embarrassed, confused, eye that we look upon the rounding up of Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar during World War II.][link] If we’re lucky.
It is brutal, it is inhuman, and it is the antithesis of the very ideals our country was founded upon. The existence of America’s (torture) detention facility in Guantanamo Bay makes me feel sick to my stomach and rotten to my core. We should be ashamed of ourselves, and so much more than that.
[link]: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/hunger-striking-at-guantanamo-bay.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0 “Hunger Striking at Guantánamo Bay – NYTimes.com”
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Feds force Oregon to surrender medical marijuana patient records
>[Federal agents have forced the Oregon Public Health Division to turn over an untold number of patients’ medical marijuana records, according to court records recently uncovered by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.][link]
These people just want to be able to have their medicine and not be afraid, and this is EXACTLY why a lot of people on the lefty fringe are against legalizing Marijuana in the first place. They’re afraid of being on “some government list” just like this one.
Now that they know where you live the feds can break down the door at any moment and arrest you, charge you with a federal crime, seize all of your property, etc.
[link]: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/12/feds-force-oregon-to-surrender-medical-marijuana-patient-records/ “Feds force Oregon to surrender medical marijuana patient records | The Raw Story”
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Fix The DMCA
[The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is broken, is stifling innovation, and is giving entrenched businesses an unfair advantage over new ones. Let’s fix it.][link]
[link]: http://fixthedmca.org/ “FixTheDMCA.org”