Yep, most of the EFF's site is very retro. It appears however that they are rectifying this.
Seth Schoen's Broadcast Protection Working Group montor now has a blog, and there is a more general page that looks like it will be the directory for similar endeavours inside the EFF. Cory Docotrow of course maintains the excellent boingboing and he now works for the EFF as well.
Given the new attempts to hardwire copyright enforcement system in the SSSCA, the cynical attempts of the copyright cops to link piracy to September 11th and the continuing jihad against file-sharing systems, it is clear that unless serious political opposition is mounted the infotainment cartel will continue to press their advantage.
Some recent events give reason for optimism.
Firstly the 11th circuit result in the Wind Done Gone case put the use of copyright as a means of censorship right back into the jurisprudence. The opinion is worth reading.
We are still waiting for the result of Universal v Reimerdes (Eric Corley/2600/deCSS)on appeal, given that two of the three arguments made in May were essentially first amendment claims, the 11th circuit decision comes at just the right time.
The Sklyarov case shows just how dangerous this can all be. Traditionally, the threat of an injunction might have been a force to chill some speech, but criminal liability under the DMCA will silence a helluva lot more.
This conference will be an opportunity for those of us at the wrong end of 'campaign finance' to get a strategy together. Rather than bleating on about the industry, it's about positive arguments in support of the public domain and for the commons (and exploring the difference between the two - think GPL). That means expressive freedom, autonomy and open systems.
Time for some intellectual self-defense training my friends.
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Seth Schoen's Broadcast Protection Working Group montor now has a blog, and there is a more general page that looks like it will be the directory for similar endeavours inside the EFF. Cory Docotrow of course maintains the excellent boingboing and he now works for the EFF as well.
That prompts me to think that anyone bringing Marx into argument should be able to explain what commodity fetichism is.
That for you freedom applies to goods and capital, and not to labor and humans, indicates to me the continuing truth expressed by Victor Serge:
"You love things too much and people too little
people as people you love not enough."
Given the new attempts to hardwire copyright enforcement system in the SSSCA, the cynical attempts of the copyright cops to link piracy to September 11th and the continuing jihad against file-sharing systems, it is clear that unless serious political opposition is mounted the infotainment cartel will continue to press their advantage.
Some recent events give reason for optimism.
Firstly the 11th circuit result in the Wind Done Gone case put the use of copyright as a means of censorship right back into the jurisprudence. The opinion is worth reading.
We are still waiting for the result of Universal v Reimerdes (Eric Corley/2600/deCSS)on appeal, given that two of the three arguments made in May were essentially first amendment claims, the 11th circuit decision comes at just the right time.
The Sklyarov case shows just how dangerous this can all be. Traditionally, the threat of an injunction might have been a force to chill some speech, but criminal liability under the DMCA will silence a helluva lot more.
This conference will be an opportunity for those of us at the wrong end of 'campaign finance' to get a strategy together. Rather than bleating on about the industry, it's about positive arguments in support of the public domain and for the commons (and exploring the difference between the two - think GPL). That means expressive freedom, autonomy and open systems.
Time for some intellectual self-defense training my friends.
Benkler's paper is great.