Thursday , March 28 2024

Tag Archives: Media

The Wireless Life

VentureBlog contributor Naval Ravikant, inventor of the jelly, muses on the ubiquity of wireless computing at Dartmouth: Instant Messenger for voice will emerge – Just as ubiquitous wired connectivity lead from email (sporadic and asynchronous) to IM (always-on and synchronous), so ubiquitous wireless connectivity takes us from cellphones to a …

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The “Scourge” of Betamax

This very informative run through copyright history and theory since the Betamax decision of 1984 is marred by just one thing: the conclusions are EXACTLY 100% wrong. It isn’t Betamax that needs to be overturned, it is the extensions of copyright over the last century past any reasonable time limit, …

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“Gimme an ‘R’ – Gimme an ‘I’ …”

Setting aside the merits of file sharing legality and morality, check out the spin on this story from Billboard – any doubt about who butters their bread or fluffs their pillows? It seems that music companies can’t catch a break these days. Recent news coverage of piracy lawsuits has been …

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Copyright Office Seeking Comments

Current and potential webcasters, take note of this: SUMMARY: The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is requesting public comment on the adoption of regulations for records of use of sound recordings performed pursuant to the statutory license for public performances of sound recordings by means of digital audio …

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NBC-Universal Deal Goes Through

The NBC-Universal deal announced on September 2 has officially gone through: Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. have reached an agreement to merge the French company’s Hollywood studio, cable TV networks and theme parks with GE’s NBC business, creating a media giant with about $13 billion in annual revenue. ….The …

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Keep it Zipped Until the Polls Close

I agree with Glenn Reynolds on political matters far more often than not, but I definitely have a different perspective on this: the networks were going to call it for Schwarzenegger the minute the polls closed, and then turning on the TV just before they did and seeing the talking …

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Arnold Wins!

Arnold wins! Love him, hate him, indifferent, or disgusted because the whole recall seems like a bad movie, people are fascinated with Arnold Schwarzenegger, a literally larger-than-life figure with a mythic if checkered past. We have a number of stories on Arnold and the recall: TOTAL RECALL: The Terminator Rules …

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The Court of Public Opinion

Can the RIAA sue individuals for copyright infringement? Yes, obviously they are. The RIAA was apparently of the opinion that lawsuits against children and grandparents potentially costing targets MILLIONS (at the rate of up to $150,000 per infringement) would cow and shame the nation into changing both their behavior and …

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Bloggy Airwaves

Sorry I’ve been scarce – been working intensely on an article, and this afternoon Dawn and I appeared with the brilliant and charming Dee Perry on the Cleveland NPR station WCPN to discuss this old bloggy world of ours and to cast our spell over the masses, needless to say. …

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“Psychosocial malaise”

In an effort to combat the ongoing and largely partisan efforts to paint the status of the War on Terror in the bleakest possible light, coupled with the media’s tendency to focus on the the abrupt and the horrible vs. the procedural and the positive, I offer up these words …

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