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SOPA and PIPA are not dead: they are waiting in the shadows. What’s happened in the last 24 hours, though, is extraordinary. The internet has enabled creativity, knowledge, and innovation to shine, and as Wikipedia went dark, you’ve directed your energy to protecting it.
But what will happen when the MPAA buys the next SOPA? We can’t protest every similar bill with the same force. Eventually, our audiences will tire of calling their senators for whatever we’re asking them to protest this time.
Eventually, we will lose.
Such ridiculous, destructive bills should never even pass committee review, but we’re not addressing the real problem: the MPAA’s buying power in Congress. This is a campaign finance problem.
And again, they will. Consider this: SOPA and PIPA came this close to passing with MPAA head Chris Assclown Dodd banned from direct lobbying. Why is he banned? Because there’s a law that requires politicians to be two years out of office before they can lobby.
Dodd vacated his U.S. Senate seat on January 3, 2011. In a year, he’ll be able lobby all he wants. He’ll be able to directly buy the support of all his former colleagues. He spent 36 years in Washington as both a Senator and Congressman. You think that doesn’t matter? He’s going to be the best lobbyist ever. Which is exactly why the MPAA picked him.
“So Jony Ive leads the design team at the two most-profitable phone makers. Impressive.” — John Gruber
A week ago I bought a movie from iTunes. That was a mistake.
During boxing week I was at a friends house and we wanted to watch the movie. I had my laptop with me, but not my Mini DisplayPort adapter, so I couldn’t connect my computer to the projector. I shared the movie and my friend accessed from his computer. He couldn’t play it. The file was infected with DRM, Digital rights management (or rather digital restrictions management).
Okay, we could eventually play the movie. We had to use iTunes and I had to log in with the account that I had bought the movie with and authorize something. Maybe I’m naïve, but I was a bit amazed. I thought iTunes didn’t use DRM anymore, but apparently it’s only music that are DRM-free.
I won’t be buying any more movies from iTunes as long they are infected with DRM. When I pay for something, I want it to work, without hassle.
It’s sad that after more than ten years into the 21st century, we still have crap like DRM. That’s why organizations such as the EFF need our support.
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“I’ve long believed that piracy is largely a business model problem not a human behavior problem. If you give people a legal way to consume the content they want, they will pay for it. But when you make it impossible to legally consume the content they want, they will pirate it.” — Fred Wilson
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Årets största Internethändelser
“It now costs over a billion dollars a year to run Facebook, and delivering ads is how Facebook pays for this.” — About Advertising on Facebook
(Source: daringfireball.net)
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“Free web services are not like free software. If your free software project suddenly gets popular, you gain resources: testers, developers and people willing to pitch in. If your free website takes off, you lose resources. Your time is spent firefighting and your money all goes to the nice people at Linode.” — Don’t Be A Free User
TIME’s 2011 Person of the Year is The Protester
(Source: marco.org)
A lot of discussion lately: