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The DMCA is the center of a frenzy of activity: Yale’s Lawmeme, in conjunction with Blogcritics is presenting an exemption request from the DVD copy prohibition to the librarian of Congress today – more on that later. There was also a verdict in the ElcomSoft criminal copyright violation trial (also …

The new Lord of the Rings flick, The Two Towers, debuts tonight at midnight. Many hobbit hearts are beating out of their furry little chests. We go to very few movies in the theater anymore – unless they are suitable for a 3 year-old – but Dawn has insisted that …

Clean, sober, "partnered," and getting his eyes fixed.

Richard’s Johnson reports in the NY Post that rap chronicler Davy D has factored O’Reilly and declared him “hip-hop’s dopest MC for 2002.” Though I personally doubt O’Reilly has an ounce of rhythm in him, his scorched earth broadsides have earned respect from at least one corner of the hip-hop …

This little video presentation, “Technical Difficulties,” is clever in its own way and some of its points are perfectly legitimate. But – damn – again I am forced to confront the utterly bewildering notion that somehow the War on Terror (wherever it may lead, including Iraq) is a case of …

The freedom of information theme is very much in the air today: a Stanford group is using the copyright system to INCREASE the amount of material available in the public domain, according to the LA Times: Based at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society, Creative Commons has a …

The paradigm has shifted so completely that I am now highly annoyed if written material is not available online as opposed to being thrilled and delighted when something IS available online. IS is now the norm – the rest of you are fools. Among the last bastions of important material …

Probing for the weak spot: Dozens of small stores have been given two weeks to clear their racks of pirated CDs, tell where they got them and pay damages to the five largest record labels, an industry group said on Monday. The Recording Industry Association of America said 78 small …

Company working on software to segment “video on demand” for users according to the Boston Globe: an Andover company is developing software to enable viewers to skip through movies, programs, and news broadcasts to find the segments they want to watch. Gotuit Media Corp. is announcing today it has landed …

Maybe they have.