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Daily Archives: January 21st, 2005

Fwd: [Boing Boing] Torrent site-owner running circles around MPAA lawyers

Great stuff here. Keep fighting!
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/01/21/torrent_siteowner_ru.html
Cory Doctorow: The creator of Isohunt, a BitTorrent indexing service, has
been duking it out with the Motion Picture Association of America’s
lawyers, in public. He’s running circles around these bullies, too:
You repeatedly mention the “representative” list of works, which serves
only to intimidate us as a search service. If you look at the [...]

Wireless Carriers Must Stop Crippling Bluetooth

Get ‘em, Ed! Bluetooth is wonderful when it’s not crippled.
http://brighthand.com/article/Carriers_Must_Stop_Crippling_Bluetooth
Ed Hardy urges carriers to end their habit of disabling some functions on
their Bluetooth-enabled phones, forcing their users to pay for services
they otherwise could have for free.

Life, liberty and blogging

>From CNET:
http://news.com.com/Life%2C+liberty+and+blogging/2061-1030_3-5545951.html?part=rss=5545951=news.1030.20
Recent actions by tech companies are making bloggers wonder whether they
have the right to free speech or only the right to remain
silent.

SJG unDRMs RPG PDFs

(Alphabet soup, anyone?
Back during the WoYP blog’s first go-round, I wrote a lengthy piece on the idea of role-playing game books on one’s PDA. The observations I made then are still largely true today.
Nonetheless, one roleplaying game company has moved a little closer to the sort of openness with which Baen publishes their SF [...]