Score one for the
good guys.
Score one for the
bad guys.
Mere
Catholics asks what makes someone good or bad in the realm of copyrights? (Though,
apparently, nobody told them to stop
capitalizing “internet”.
Poor Florida can’t stay out of the spotlight. They have persistent voting troubles, they got slammed by a vicious hurricane, and apparently they have a frightening number of sexual predators.
A new state law prohibits school bus stops from being within 1,000 yards of a pedophile on probation. That means that about 400 stops in Broward County may have to move to avoid the 1,100 registered sexual predators in the county! Move bus stops? I think I’d move my kids to another county. (Thanks, Fark)
I’m sure by now most have heard that the hilarious JibJab parody of “This Land”
by Woody Guthrie is under
attack from the copyright owners of the latter.
BoingBoing has added an interesting twist to the debate. ‘Twould seem good ol’ Guthrie
wasn’t
particularly anal about copyrights himself.
I’m not a fan of government-imposed censorship and I believe that parents should
take a more active role in what their children watch on TV and movies.
Hollywood is trying on multiple
fronts
to eradicate customers’ fair
use rights. One of their targets is parent’s right to control what his children
watch.
Several months ago, a new
DVD player debuted which would permit the user to “automatically
skip sexual
content, graphically violent scenes and language deemed offensive”.
Directors are furious and Hollywood wants these machines off the market. If you’d
like to see ClearPlay-enabled
players, like RCA’s DRC232N back
on the market and protected in the future, please sign the Grassfire
Family Movie Act petition.
The fight for a
la carte cable has crossed over into main-stream media.
Cable Channel-Shuffling Considered
Congress has raised a question that the cable TV industry does not want to answer: Why can’t I get SpongeBob SquarePants without having to buy Stripperella, too?