Note: I’ll be having surgery on my leg tomorrow, so this will probably be the last article you will see from me for a few days while I recover. I can be reached via Twitter or e-mail while in the hospital. Sita Sings the Blues is an amazing animated feature created by Nina Paley. I first heard it ...

The French attempt to pass the world's toughest "graduated response" law against P2P file-sharers has been en retard for months. But the negotiations are finally over, the "Création et Internet" bill has been drafted, and today it finally came up before the National Assembly for debate. Despite fur...

Leave aside your feelings about 2008 Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr (pro or con) because I think we can agree he is right on this issue: There is now unfolding in a federal court in San Francisco a lawsuit in which several major Hollywood movie studios are suing RealNetworks - a relativ...

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation Sets Up Its Own BitTorrent Tracker -- the money shot is not that they're using the same code as Pirate Bay, it's "By using BitTorrent we can reach our audience with full quality media files. Experience from our early tests show that if we’re the best provider...

When it comes to the DMCA, it seems that Google has been nothing but a headache. In the past four years of this site, I have lamented Google’s lack of email contact information, developed a hack to get around that, I have faxed a 17-page DMCA notice to their Adsense department (which is separa...

Links for March 10th 2009: Failed Negotiations - YouTube Will Block Music Videos in the UK [NYTimes.com] - “YouTube just announced that it wasn’t able to reach a new deal with the UK’s Performing Rights Society (PRS for Music), which collects licensing fees for musicians and labels...

Last year, the New Zealand government passed ‘3-strike’ legislation which was designed to have alleged copyright infringers disconnected from the Internet. In February a code of practice was drafted by the music industry and ISPs which attempted to lay out how the ISPs would go about dis...

Girl Talk: Please Use Fairly. While reading Boing Boing this morning, I learned that Uncensored Interview, a site that records and posts video interviews with independent musicians, has made over 1000 of their videos available under the extremely permissive CC-BY Creative Commons license. This means...

If you follow the comic book blogs, there's been a war of words over whether the demise of Scans Daily, which showed some comic book pages and commented on them, is a defeat for the comic book consumer or a victory for the comic book creator. (You can read about it lots of places - I'm picking the n...

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) has accused RealNetworks of destroying evidence relevant to a lawsuit over the company's DVD-copying software. The movie studios represented by the MPAA have asked for a court order requiring RealNetworks to preserve relevant documents from now on, bu...