Everything Wrong with Digital Copyright (And How to Fix It)

gizmodo.com Dig­i­tal copy­right is bro­ken. We know this inher­ent­ly, and wheeze exas­per­a­tion when­ev­er the lat­est non­sen­si­cal DRM news crops up. But fix­ing it’s not as sim­ple as toss­ing the whole sys­tem out the win­dow. So here’s a break­down o… Everything Wrong with Digital Copyright (And How to Fix It) http://flip.it/PP8S5 http://flip.it/5WNKP Everything Wrong with Digital … Continue reading Everything Wrong with Digital Copyright (And How to Fix It)

Copyright law on the digital frontier

Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May By Adi Robertson, theverge.com Use of Google’s take­down tool for search results has grown ten­fold in the past six months, the com­pa­ny reports. When it start­ed pub­licly post­ing take­down notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went … Continue reading Copyright law on the digital frontier

GoPro camera used for stratospheric imaging

GoPro Camera Records Sky Divers and Surfers By NICK BILTON, nytimes.com There have been two major mile­stones in nar­cis­sis­tic pho­tog­ra­phy in the last cen­tu­ry. The first was the inven­tion of the self-timer, which Kodak began sell­ing dur­ing World War I. The sec­ond came a few years ago, as teenagers stood at… RT @nytimesbits: Disruptions: A … Continue reading GoPro camera used for stratospheric imaging