How will the RIAA seek to regulate open-source MP3 players, when plug-ins/patches to allow them to break DRM schemes are possible? And how will they regulate a world where cities have free wireless?


Cell phone film festival opens.

New program causes huge demand spike for your product. Your response? Discontinue it. Goes to my longstanding point that there's ultimately more money to be made in technology and in concerts (e.g. making consumer's lives better) than in record sales.

Valenti's final, laughable, farewell interview.

Wonderful substantial, noninfringing use.

Federal court adds rule of reason to DMCA. It's about time.

I call it 'legal hacking,' in the sense that progams like this hack the legal system. A similar thing happened between Napster and it's predecessors, which explains the differences between the the original case and Grokster v MGM.

Wentworth on cultural damage.

--Ari