Archive for the 'Fair Use' Category
Monday, March 20th, 2006
Transpodder monitors all of your tv shows and puts them on your iPod automatically. With no effort or interaction. Bittorrent + RSS + iPod!
Transpodder is a combination of simple tools and simple technologies. It uses FFMPEG to transcode your content and podcasting to get it onto your iPod. With the right setup, all of this […]
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Sunday, December 4th, 2005
This is great. Hasbro has put up PDFs of their money to print out in case you’ve lost a few bills. They have 10 bills per sheet of paper. Have your printer print them double sided so they’re more legitamate.
Stuff like this makes me smile. This is how companies like Hasbro should be treating their […]
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Friday, December 2nd, 2005
The RIAA came down on David because he was playing too many Missy Elliot songs too often. Another great example of the double standard for online radio stations versus terrestrial broadcasting.
Obviously, the music industry has learned to finally grasp the new promotional mediums that exist.
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Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Cory posted a great timeline of the events surrounding Sony’s rootkit. This has been incredible to watch unfold. Every single day something new and more embarassing for Sony has been reported. If you don’t know about it, or have had trouble following it, check out the timeline at boingboing.
To follow up on this, the […]
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Thursday, July 21st, 2005
Here’s an awesome post about why everyone should be modding things. Mod-ifying for the lamen. He points out all the great reasons of why we do what we do. The two main reasons I do the projects that I do is that a product/software doesn’t already exists for what I want and that I just […]
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2003
I'm not gonna make this a long one, I just wanted to spread the good word of 69 year old Orrin Hatch. He is endorsing the act of damaging users' computers that download illegal music.
“If that's the only way, then I'm all for destroying their machines.”
The Senator is coming on a bit strong, and this […]
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Friday, April 25th, 2003
A federal judge has ruled that the developers of Morpheus and Grokster are not liable for the use of their applications. This is an incredibly important ruling in the area of file sharing. The judge went on to say that:
“Defendants distribute and support software, the users of which can and do choose to employ it […]
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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2003
Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), will be stepping down at the end of the year. I think I speak for a large number of people when I say, WOO HOO! She has served as the CEO since 1998 and claimed personal reasons (family and whatnot) as to why she […]
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