Along the same lines as my last post, Ars gets into the costs of the RIAA’s proposed “3 strikes” policy. My favorite part: Jerry Scroggin is the owner of Bayou Internet and Communications(BIC),a small ISP based in Monroe, Louisiana with around 11,000 smallbusiness, residential, and municipal customers. BIC already receivesnotifications from the RIAA each month, …
Big news… the RIAA announced that they will no longer persue lawsuits against individual music filesharers. Instead, filesharers will receive a notification from the Internet Service Provider (ISP), and may loose net access after 3 “strikes.” ISPs should be cautious, for this could set a bad precedent. The safe harbor provision of the Digital Millennium …
After a brief hiatus from blogging, I think a good way to get back into the swing of things might be again asking “why I blog,” with the help of a piece from The Atlantic that resonated with me and even challenged me. On the subject of tone, Andrew Sullivan (the author) remarks: For bloggers, …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
John doesn't update his blog often, and many of the thoughts are probably half-baked. While the web has sort of an eternal memory, the current and future reader is urged not to take all of this too seriously.
Think of this blog as "John thinking out loud."
(For more on this idea and why I blog, please see this category.)