Clueless?

"Having engaged in widespread copyright infringement for over 20 years, the CRIA members now face the prospect of far greater liability. The class action seeks the option of statutory damages for each infringement. At $20,000 per infringement (the amount owed on some songs exceed this amount), potential liability exceeds $6 billion. These numbers may sound outrageous, yet they are based on the same rules that has led the recording industry to claim a single file sharer is liable for millions in damages."

That's a serious photoshop disaster. My god.

People should be paying attention to this story.

This is well worth reading -- a judge tells the RIAA to piss-off.

A WalMart refuses to print professional looking photos for fear of violating copyrights -- the photographers copyrights. Idiots.

My feelings exactly.

Discussion on the case at Freedom to Tinker.

\"As a copyright policy discussion grows longer, the probability of pornography being invoked approaches one.\"

This is actually old news, but I hadn\'t seen it written about till recently.

\"The RIAA runs its lawsuits as a volume business, and sometimes downloaders just gotta settle.\"

Interesting article at the Information Technology and the Law class weblog.

Apparently this software allows for secure file-sharing.

A group-weblog for a class at Princeton run by Ed Felton.

And they\'re going after YOU next.

An article at OSdir on how JHymm works.

The fact that Microsoft needs to put labels on CDs so consumers can be certain they\'ll play on their machines is lame -- really, really, lame.

The crazies always miss a past that never existed -- always.

I'm impressed at how unimpressive most DRMs are.