FFS! MSN deliberately breaks Opera’s browser. Wow, huge surprise… (Opera: Why doesn’t MSN work with Opera?)
A palm tree on Diagonal, for no particular reason except that it’s quite nice, no? (Slow news day…)
Dunno how I missed this! All CDs will be protected and you are a filthy pirate. “…we fear that these facts don’t interest you at all. Because these measures mean the end of free music, something that must cause you much grief.” No comment.
*yet more* links to articles on p2p, music downloading, and all that stuff… Embrace file-sharing, or die is interesting, from John Snyder; odd position from the EU: EC allows music downloading in antipiracy proposal on IT World; and good old Janis again: Don’t Sever a High-Tech Lifeline for Musicians in the LA Times. (I didn’t mean “old” like that, Janis… ;)
Wired: The Race to Kill Kazaa – “Ultimately, the power to snuff Kazaa rests solely in the hands of Kazaa users. Getting them to do so means first giving them a better place to go.” [update: Kazaa strikes back at Hollywood, labels]
More IP stuff, this time Lisa M. Bowman talking to Robin Gross on news.com: Digital rights under fire. (This is going to turn into a specialized consumer rights/copyright law blog if I’m not careful…)
From ZDNet: Fight for your right to copy, noticed on SomaFM. Strangely right-on.
Look out: I’ve finally got a decent digital camera. So anything goes subject-wise. Even small plastic cats. Yes.
Another interesting take on copyright law: Lawrence Lessig’s What lawyers can learn from comic books in the ‘Herring where he talks about Japan’s dojinshi phenomenon. ‘The “use” of [the]copyrighted content therefore benefits the original author. … Manga publishers in Japan recognize this. They understand how “theft” can benefit the “victim,” even if lawyers are trained to make the thought inconceivable.’ I like pragmatism.
Some good news to get 2003 going: ‘DVD Jon’ scores huge legal victory. [Some background at geek.com.]