Danny sez,
Last year, WIPO looked like it had acknowledge the letters from podcasters, and leading tech companies complaining about the language of its Broadcast Treaty --- which would have created a whole new layer of IP for broadcasters to claim on even public domain and CC-licensed content streamed over the Net. They said they'd dump the old format, and narrow the treaty to what it was supposed to be about -- outlawing outright piracy of transmitted signals.Link (Thanks, Danny!)This May, the WIPO chair put forward a new version of the treaty that - tada - contained exactly the same enclosure act IP rights, and even included language that would mean every PC would have to be crippled to prevent it decoding encrypted transmissions.
EFF and others are at WIPO this week: they'll be delivering this Dear WIPO petition to let the IP apparatchiks know they're being watched. Sign it now!
The bomb lance fragment, lodged a bone between the whale's neck and shoulder blade, was likely manufactured in New Bedford, on the southeast coast of Massachusetts, a major whaling center at that time, Bockstoce said.
sorry, but i feel compelled to write you about this... merlin is a good
guy, and larry lessig is a good guy, but they are sadly out-of-step on
this point.
Send the Warp Your Room people an exact plan for your walls, showing where your doors, windows, pictures, and electrical outlets are, and they'll generate a custom wallpaper for you that "warps" the pattern around everything that protrudes through the paper.
IPac has created a survey covering top issues and proposals for fixing copyright reform, patents, Internet and cable openness, wireless competition, and other impediments to creativity and tech innovation.
This Paul Nicklen photo shows a cyberpunk walrus with a satellite radio tracker attached to his tusk -- the image is striking, like the poor lunker is being remote-controlled by sinister technocrats.
The peculiarly British invention combined an alarm clock with a kettle, and promised owners they could wake up each morning to a fresh cup of tea without having to leave the comfort of their bed. At the height of their popularity, two million households had one...
My friend Kevin Bankston is the EFF attorney who runs a lot of the privacy stuff for the organization; ironically he is also a magnet for Internet surveillance cameras!
Limited edition USB flash drives containing The White Stripes new album, Icky Thump.
“I invented this for my mother. I wanted her to shower comfortably,” says Ma Yanjun, of Qiqiao village, Shaanxi province...
Lambert says: "Story in Dutch, but better quality footage of Bush losing his watch." 
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