Musician's open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain's Pirate-Finder General
Dan Bull (he of the musical open letter to Lily Allen about copyright) has recorded another open letter to Peter Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary who's set himself up to be Pirate-Finder General, with nearly unlimited powers to enforce...

Musician's open letter, sung to Peter Mandelson, Britain's Pirate-Finder General
Dan Bull (he of the musical open letter to Lily Allen about copyright) has recorded another open letter to Peter Mandelson, the UK Business Secretary who's set himself up to be Pirate-Finder General, with nearly unlimited powers to enforce...

How Britain's Pirate Finder General is trying to save the Analog Economy at the Digital Economy's expense
My latest Guardian column looks at Peter Mandelson's new "Digital Economy Bill," a sweeping piece of proposed British legislation that would give Mandelson broad powers to act as the Pirate-Finder General, with the implausible aim of reducing UK...

Two US senators demand publication of secret copyright treaty
Two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), have written to the US Trade Representative demanding that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public. This is the treaty that allows for criminal sanctions...

Two US senators demand publication of secret copyright treaty
Two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), have written to the US Trade Representative demanding that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public. This is the treaty that allows for criminal sanctions...

Two US senators demand publication of secret copyright treaty
Two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), have written to the US Trade Representative demanding that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public. This is the treaty that allows for criminal sanctions...

Two US senators demand publication of secret copyright treaty
Two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), have written to the US Trade Representative demanding that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public. This is the treaty that allows for criminal sanctions...

Two US senators demand publication of secret copyright treaty
Two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), have written to the US Trade Representative demanding that the text of the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement be made public. This is the treaty that allows for criminal sanctions...

Homebrew Pikachu ski-mask
DeviantArt's Sugarcoatidli3z whipped up this smart, creepy Pikachu ski-mask just in time for the bad weather. It converts to a toque with pointy ears for warm weather/formal occasions.Pikachu convertible ski mask(via...

Associated Press loves fair use (we just wish they'd share)
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin's memoir Glowing...

Associated Press loves fair use (we just wish they'd share)
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin's memoir Glowing...

Associated Press loves fair use (we just wish they'd share)
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palin's memoir Glowing...

Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the...

Brits: sign petition to kill three-strikes law
Britons: here's a petition to the Prime Minister to abolish the new Digital Economy bill's provisions that will require ISPs to cut off your household's internet access if anyone living there (or using your network) is accused of three acts of...

Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the...

Help needed to bust ridiculous podcasting patent
A (crazy, bullshit) patent has been granted on podcasting, and EFF has vowed to kill it, but they need your help:The Volomedia patent covers "a method for providing episodic media." It's a ridiculously broad patent, covering something that many...

Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the...

Britain's new Internet law -- as bad as everyone's been saying, and worse. Much, much worse.
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry (including the...

BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen.Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under...

Free legal assistance for bloggers and online media creators
The Online Media Legal Network is a project from Harvard's cyberlaw center the Berkman Clinic that works with partners to hook up bloggers and other creates who are under legal threat with lawyers who can help them solve their problems.The Online...

BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen.Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under...

BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen.Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digital Economy Bill now under...

Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience
Photo: Mag3737Michael Fricklas, Viacom's General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt "like terrorism." He says that this was bad strategy on the entertainment...

MPAA shuts down entire town's muni WiFi over a single download
The MPAA has successfully shut down an entire town's municipal WiFi because a single user was found to be downloading a copyrighted movie. Rather than being embarrassed by this gross example of collective punishment (a practice outlawed in the Geneva...

Remixing the default Twitter avatar
Ape Lad sez, "I've taken the shape of the default twitter avatar and adapted it to some non-bird characters. I still haven't figured out how to fit Galactus into that shape." Twitter Avatars (Thanks, Adam!)Previously:Catoonn avatar...