From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Content vs. Communication

May 27, 2008

Mike Masnick has an interesting post on Techdirt today, reporting on Google’s recently filed response to the Viacom lawsuit against YouTube. In a nutshell, Google’s response is that a) it’s doing nothing wrong and taking all measures to remove copyrighted material and b) a threat to sharing on the internet is a threat to [...]

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Nice Goin’ Netflix

May 22, 2008

On Tuesday of this week, in an attempt to out-Apple Apple, Netflix announced that they are offering a $99 set-top box with the uninspired-but-functional name of “The Netflix Player”. The device, manufactured by Roku, is similar to AppleTV in that it hooks to your television and allows you to download movies and [...]

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The Erosion of Fair Use

May 16, 2008

This morning at work, someone passed around an article from PC Magazine online about Sumner Redstone’s attitudes and opinions towards file-sharing on the internet. The article talks about SR’s keynote speech to the Seoul Digital Forum in Korea last week, wherein he made his stance clear that all file-sharing – including short [...]

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I’m Changing My Name….

May 14, 2008

…to TenneyPop6

because it’s catchier than TenneyBowl

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