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More (C)ensorship
Amazon erased purchased e-books from consumers’ Kindles. Wait’ll you find out what books. This is an inevitable consequence of Digital Restrictions Mongering. Meanwhile, US courts banned a book using...
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Note: Please, please continue uploading my comics to WikiMedia Commons, beloved uploaders! Nina’s Adventures is next. I completely endorse and support this work! Thank you! I love you! I post the rant...
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“Intellectual Property” is Slavery
“Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.” – John Locke, Second Treatise on Civil Government “Most thinkers…hold that you own your own life, and it follows...
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“if no one is informed, no one will object.”
My goodness, no one seems to know what grand juries are! I sure didn’t, until this week. Because they’re called “juries,” people think they’re trial juries. Not at all! Here’s a good article...
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Smackdown: Open Source or Closed Doors? (click here to listen) The director of Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley, had to pay $50,000 to use old songs in her animation movie. She then put the movie...
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An Open Letter to Lincoln Center
Dear Lincoln Center, On Friday, May 28, I attended a NY Philharmonic performance of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. All patrons were required to pass through long “security” lines and have our bags searched...
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Authoritarian update
crossposted from Mimi & Eunice I’m re-posting this cartoon today because the US Department of Homeland Security seized more than 70 web sites over the weekend (while sites like arstechnica.com and...
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RANTIFESTO
Adapted from a talk and slide show I presented at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin on July 1, 2011. –NP Why are the Freedoms guaranteed for Free Software not guaranteed for Free Culture? Free...
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GEMA issues fraudulent takedown of Sita Sings the Blues in Germany
Apparently it’s been blocked there for over a year, but without lawyers there’s not much I can do about it from the US….so I made this video. Please share, especially if you’re in Germany.
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Youtube’s Content ID abuse is out of control
Today I received not one but two fraudulent copyright claims on my Free and Copyleft work (instances of Sita Sings the Blues and All Creative Work is Derivative). I’ve also received fraudulent claims...
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Dvorak Diary #1: Airport
On a recent trip to Trivandrum, India, I decided to try learning to touch-type in Dvorak (after decades of hunt-and-peck in QWERTY). Here I share some excerpts of my “Dvorak Diary”. December...
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Is There A Doctor In The House?
Note: updated below I NEED HELP. I have an orange-sized fibroid in my cervix, among other problems. The local hospital system is dysfunctional and corrupt – doctors don’t communicate with each other,...
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Intolerance
I was “no-platformed” in my hometown this week, because months ago and in a completely unrelated context I said “if a person has a penis he’s a man.” I stand by that statement; my views on the subject...
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Another way the Internet is like the Printing Press
10 years ago, the Free Web was revolutionary, democratizing, and empowering. Many of us correctly compared it to the advent of the printing press, another revolutionary technology that was inextricably...
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An Open Letter to Lincoln Center
Dear Lincoln Center, On Friday, May 28, I attended a NY Philharmonic performance of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre. All patrons were required to pass through long “security” lines and have our bags searched...
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Authoritarian update
crossposted from Mimi & Eunice I’m re-posting this cartoon today because the US Department of Homeland Security seized more than 70 web sites over the weekend (while sites like arstechnica.com and...
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RANTIFESTO
Adapted from a talk and slide show I presented at the Open Knowledge Conference in Berlin on July 1, 2011. –NP Why are the Freedoms guaranteed for Free Software not guaranteed for Free Culture? Free...
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GEMA issues fraudulent takedown of Sita Sings the Blues in Germany
Apparently it’s been blocked there for over a year, but without lawyers there’s not much I can do about it from the US….so I made this video. Please share, especially if you’re in Germany.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Youtube’s Content ID abuse is out of control
Today I received not one but two fraudulent copyright claims on my Free and Copyleft work (instances of Sita Sings the Blues and All Creative Work is Derivative). I’ve also received fraudulent claims...
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