Ha. I had no idea Grooveshark depends on DMCA's safe harbour provisions. I assumed they had some sort of clever licensing scheme worked out with music publishers.
The Oatmeal explains why people who want to buy content pirate it instead.
“… as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral — it’s a moral imperative.” Aaron Swartz will always be a hero of mine for that time he almost freed five million articles from JSTOR.
About Aaron Swartz’s run-in with JSTOR and MIT
Nice quote of Jefferson on patents
After I posted three links to a video of a Dateline episode featuring a small Arizona religious group, two of the three hosts received DMCA take-down notices from the group’s lawyer and took down the video. So I pulled out my stenotype keyboard and made this quick transcript of the 40-minute program. Corrections welcome.
Asthon Kutcher on SOPA
Paul Graham on property. His idea of property as that which “works” is slowly getting back to Max Stirner’s common-sense definition: “Whoever knows how to take, to defend, the thing, to him belongs property.”
A satire of the entertainment industry’s rent-seeking, set in the first century near the Sea of Galilee.
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