Well, as long as there isn’t a defense for the crime…

Joel Tenenbaum’s case has been the background for a week of a very bizarre copyright law and file sharing policy changes.  Curiously, the Tenenbaum team won’t be shaking up the way the law is applied, but seems to be seeking to actually minimize the actual damages under the 8th amendment.  This is the proverbial other side to the recording industries lawsuit coin, can they justify the damages that they’re claiming?  After all,  it’s not like stealing a CD from the store.  It’s not like they could just take an original copy and make as many other ones as they wanted so long as they had space…

Necker Cubes? Really?

With the start of the Joel Tenenbaum trial this week, it’s interesting to see whether or not the Harvard Professor gone Steve Jobs trial attorney Charles Nesson can provide a significant change for the basis under which copyright is fundamentally operating.  Despite some buzz out of Sweden that could potentially undermine the efforts of the general user license and open source guru’s, the copyleft [who the hell comes up with these names...], there hasn’t been much in the way of positive copyright reform.  That is, unless you count the Canadians.

Kevin Smith on Twilight

As everyone knows comic-con is going on, and I can’t help but enjoy Kevin Smith’s unique take on Twilight:

Double Case Race

There are many fine things in life.  Women, scotch, wine, art, literature, and so many more things.  No where on most people’s list will you find White Castle cheeseburgers or Keystone Light.  Being from New York, and in college, sometimes a group of individuals will come up with an idea merely because it couldn’t be executed somewhere else.  In this scenario, it was discovered that attempting to get a team of 4 people to eat 30 White Castle burgers, and drink 30 beers might be a poor idea of how to start your Saturday night off.

Is Tim Westergren being an ass?

Earlier this month Pandora finally settled what it would need to pay in order to distribute music.  This was fairly expected after all the guff that internet radio has gotten from the recording industry.  However, there are some interesting ramifications to this.  Specifically, what will happen now that this has opened the door to the recording industry pursuing radio stations for music royalties.

Back to Basics – Sort of

So I’ve neglected my blog for a month.  I can’t help but notice that I have less of a venting point, but also that my creative energy is rearranging itself.    Kentucky is busier and different than I expected.  While I’m fully content to mock the Florence Ya’ll water tower, I’m less comfortable with some of the incidents involving things like,  say, finding a gun in the Walmart parking lot.  The people I work with are pretty cool, but I feel as though I stick out, and it’s not comfortable.

Greetings from Kentucky

So I’m now in Kentucky, and life is getting pretty hectic. I’d really like to go into depth but after such a long day at work, I’m going to have say nothing more than that I’d really like to update. It’s been a while, but I’ve been trying to get things together. Anyways, bed for now, good night, and good luck.

Denial De-Nile

Everyone would prefer to be right if they think that being right is a good thing.  There are those rare instances where someone hopes to be wrong, but in general, people on the whole prefer to be right.  Last night, I once again discovered that in socialization, there’s a large amount of ambiguity to keep things in order, and most of the time that order is actually disorder.  In other words, my ex decided to be a huge pain in my ass, and I’m trying to gleen something useful out of it.

Report this

There’s been considerable focus on the decline of the newspaper as a format in the United States lately.  Rupert Murdoch went as far as claiming that pay subscriptions were just around the corner for people who used online news services.  The RIT magazine, Reporter, has been going strong since I got here in 2005, and over the years, I’ve had a love hate relationship with the magazine.   The Reporter represents something to me that I believe is a fundamental issue with newspapers and magazines that don’t come in electronic formats is the lack of an ability to feedback.

Table for One Plus X

Sometimes I sit at my computer with the window to Facebook open, staring at my contacts in the chat.  Deep down I’m thinking, I should just start randomly chatting these people.  The other parts of me are in an argument involving social norms, and how I really don’t have anything to say to any of them.  This occurrence probably happens about 3 times a week.  If all three arguments weren’t correct, it’d probably be easier to rectify, but seeing as they are, the only real choice seems to involve using judgment.