Archive for January 2005
IEEE takes middle road on copyright
Article is no longer available, but a friend of the court brief to the Supreme Court was filed by the IEEE arguing approaches to prevent copyright infringement without outlawing file-sharing itself.
California state bill could cripple P2P
Yet another attempt to make PSP software makers responsible for illegal file swapping.
amendment to DCMA?
Software and entertainment industry companies want to amend the DCMA to require ISP cooperation against file sharing. Read the Washington Post article here.
8th Circuit rejects subpoena bypass
Internetnews.com story on music industry attempts to use the DMCA to bypass the subpoena process.
Bill Gates interview
An interview with Bill Gates by CNET news.com where he likens people with concerns about the changes to copyright law to “commies”.
Of course, it’s not just Bill’s answer that’s disgusting, but the wording of the question itself ”... do you think that intellectual property rights need to be reformed?”
This makes it sound as if the law has not undergone any of the changes we’ve seen and that somehow citizens are upset with no provocation. It is the very nature of the “reforms” that have been and are being inacted that we are concerned about.
