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Comment Plenty to say here, stick around (Score 1) 402

I personally don't respect copyright as it is. It no longer "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts." It allows middlemen to maintain control of the market and to suck up profits that belong to the artists. They control what is accepted as popular (think radio play) and tend to generally harm the progress of the useful arts.

It now becomes clear that he IS, in fact, in support of copyright, just not the way it has been contorted. It has a stated purpose that is continually ignored by Disney/congress. You are right there is a huge gap here.

I'd love to see a site called Artist P.O's Nothing but the addresses of the people that deserve the continuing profits. The labels perform a service for the artist. blah, blah, rant, yawn something about inequitable contracts. blah, blah, rant rant.

Comment Human Law (Score 1) 232

WTF are they going to say when I kill that POS that keeps beating me up and getting away with it. I told them to protect me, they refused, I defended myself. The greatest need guns comes because the police aren't there to protect you, and can't, and it's been ruled that they don't have to. BUY A GUN FOR SELF DEFENSE.

Books

Journal SPAM: Digital Astrophotography - Review

In the 80's there were a series of commercials for Reeses Peanut Butter Cups that revolved around the theme of accidental meetings between chocolate and peanut butter. The individuals would realize that the two tastes that they loved separately were even better together. Two great loves for many card carrying geeks are digital photography and astronomy. "

Privacy

British Drivers Destroying Surveillance Cameras 259

miletus writes "A Wired article tells us that not everyone in Britain loves the surveillance state." The linked entry (part of Bruce Sterling's blog) quotes a story about British anti-camera groups, one of which claims its up-and-coming methods "will enable them to destroy a roadside camera in just a few seconds," and illustrates with a burned-out camera. I wonder how many Americans are similarly motivated.
The Internet

Deluge Anonymizing Browser Now Includes Bittorrent 158

markybob writes "An open-source bittorrent client, Deluge, now provides an internal, anonymizing browser to protect its users from overzealous ISPs. The client runs on Windows, Linux and OS X. From the site: "Everyone knows that it is common practice for ISPs to do their best to either block or throttle bittorrent users. We believe that this is wrong and unethical, as there are many legal uses for bittorrent. If an ISP is throttling or blocking bittorrent traffic, you can pretty much bet that they're tracking which users visit bittorrent-related sites so that they can better block or throttle those users." Their forum has more info"

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