YouTube’s Content ID Censorship Problem Illustrated | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
As I would have expected, the EFF has a great response to the Lessig-on-YouTube debacle. I’m glad they agree on the (strong) word “censorship.”
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Web Security Trust Models | Freedom to Tinker
Really interesting post on different ways that we might structure trust/certificates online.
(0)Copyright Reform Act tries fixing fair use with seven words.
In addition to “criticism” and “news reporting” and the rest of the items in the fair use preamble, the CRA proposes the addition of three more: “incidental uses, non-consumptive uses, and personal, non-commercial uses.”
This would be huge.
(0)Google Chrome users of some of the Drupal sites I designed have been having difficulty posting. It took me some time to track down a solution, but it appears in this thread. Seems that all you have to do is open a new tab and try the post again.
Hope this helps someone else as well!
(0)Apple Banning iPhone Hackers from iTunes? | TiPb.
It appears as though Apple may be blocking known jailbreakers from iTunes. Considering the potential for piracy, this makes a bit of sense on Apple’s part, but seems a little heavy handed. I suppose if you want to tinker with a device, you should be ready for services to break.
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